The Ricercar II, for solo tenor, in Stravinsky's Cantata contains what is perhaps the most vividly and thrillingly audible transposition in any serial work, by any composer, when at the last line of the penultimate verse (‘And rose again on the third day’) Stravinsky for the first time in the song lifts the series by a semitone, so that the singer on the final word touches for the first and only time a high F sharp (Ex.1).