“Time” begins at a pianissimo dynamic with the timpanis and piano, gradually crescendoing to a fortissimo including all of the instruments. After the last measure of the “climax” of the piece at 3:33, it drops back down to a piano with a decrescendo to pianissimo through the remainder of the song, piano and violas playing this final phrase.
Comparatively “Symphony No. 94” is more static in dynamic movement, using dynamic contrast in “levels” rather than gradual changes. However this piece does share the dynamic drop from fortissimo to piano between the penultimate and ultimate phrases at measures 142-143 as well as the decrescendo over the final phrase. Furthermore in both “Time” and “Symphony No. 94”, the dynamic change between the final two phrases of the songs are done with both many of the other instruments (notably the wind section) dropping out with rests and the instruments which continue to play do so at a lower dynamic level.
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