Example 14. The Sage’s Melody represents The Sage and the tribal Elders from the first moment they come onstage. It is scored for tubas in octaves and marked molto pesante, suggesting that the Sage and Elders are ancient, weighty, male characters. The lower neighbors lie either a semitone or whole tone beneath the lowest note of the perfect fourth melodic frame (Rival Tribes, Reh. 64; Procession of the Oldest and Wisest, Reh. 67).