The third movement begins slowly with a series of intentionally displaced open guitar strings, as if echoing the open string series played by the left hand in the concluding section of the previous movement. The combination of one quarter note and two eighth notes seen in the melody is reminiscent of the melancholic folk song Triste, but Ginastera further expands this into triplets and quintuplets. The layered sounds in the coda evoke, as if through perspective, the vast expanse of the Pampa and the lingering resonance of a plucked guitar.