 In typical overture form, the piece slows down as Dante makes his way down into the very depths of hell.Each of the movements in this symphony have a vocal effect, and in "Inferno", this takes the form of howls of pain, balanced rhythmically with whip cracks.The piece has a coda, and finishes with an extremely difficult timpani solo accompanied by violent and sporadic hits of the gong, although many performances omit this solo and instead have the timpani rolling into silence on a B-flat due to the difficulty.