Since our model of musical representation includes dramaturgy as part of a widely ranged musical rhetoric, both sharing the temporal aspect, this chapter will enlarge and develop some of the gestures already described in the previous one. Dramaturgy in instrumental music refers to those aspects that relate the musical discourse with a significant temporal sequence, similar to a theatrical piece or a film, with an arc of dramatic tension and resolution. For instance, a basic dramaturgical structure could comprise a presentation or setup, a confrontation in the form of an irruptive contrast, and a resolution or denouement, whether comic or tragic. In nineteenth-century music, dramaturgy tends to favour larger genres, particularly symphonies, concerti, and symphonic poems. In the Classic repertoire, as will be shown, dramaturgy may be less obvious but equally possible, especially when examining shorter fragments and their relationship of opposition or affinity.