Movement 2 - Anger

The second movement, 'Anger', is in a symmetrical five-part form of A-B-C-B1-A The music is dominated by semitone, tritone, major 7th and minor 9th intervals. Eac section is distinguished by an obsessive repetition of rhythmic motivic fragments an dissonant harmonies. Bird sounds appear in the latter part of the movement and, wht these normally represent another view of the landscape in Scu!thorpe's music, here the are symbolic of many asylum seekers remarking in their letters that ": .. birds are free t fly in and out of the refugee zoos" but they are not.