Leonard Bernstein - The Harvard Lectures

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Perhaps the Principal Thing

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Let Me Start

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This is Not Just a Sentimental Anecdote

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From this Time

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But How do we Investigate

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Now You Can See

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Universality is a Big Word

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Other Linguists

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I Began by Imagining Myself

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Well, Then I Thought

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Let's Make a Simple Analogy

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Maybe Even a Divine One

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But Where do these Notes Come from?

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This Acoustical Phenomenon

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All These Upper Notes

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The First Overtone

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But More of that Later

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But Let's Not Make the Mistake

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And that's how the Tempered Clavichord

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Now this is a Substantive Universal

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But Let's be Careful

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And there is Always that Blue Note

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But Even these Twelve Tones

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I Trust You Realize

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And Again Comes a Great Leap

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Now this Means

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This Is Not to Say that There Were No Drastic Changes

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But Meanwhile we are Still in the Golden Age

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So, we're in the Midst of a Chromatic Adventure

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And All by Those Progressions

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Now, I Must Point Out

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Do you Realize

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I. Allegro molto

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II. Andante

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III. Menuetto, Allegretto

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IV. Finale. Allegro assai

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Every Once in a While

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Last Week

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Amen, says Noam Chomsky

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I Suppose What Chomsky is Really After

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So, Let's Pull Up Our Socks

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All Right, Let's Try Another One

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Why Am I Taking Your Time

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Well Then

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I Think it Follows

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But First, What are These Principles

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Tranformational Grammar

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But Now Just Think of that Sentence

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Since this is not a Linguistics Class

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Take the Passive Transformation

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Well, it hasn't Brought us There

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Good - Now Just as Three Notes are Linked Together

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Now let's Go Back

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Now We Are Ready

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Now I Wanna Take You

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Well, Transformation, Deletion, Embedding, Pronominalization

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I Am Sure I Don't Have to Trouble

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Here I Go

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I Have Asked Myself

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I Became so Fascinated

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Let's Take one Such Utterance

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Now Imagine

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Now Let's See

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Mozart's G Minor Symphony

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Now Our Job is

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That Introductory Accompaniment

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What Does this Three-Note Design Mean

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The Reason I Pick Symmetry

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Now From Here On

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And Once Again, We Are Back

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By Far the Chief Transformational Principle

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You See, One of the Great Failings

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Most People Hearing Mozart's Opening

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So What Your Ask

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And if You are Still not Convinced

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These Ambiguities

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For Instance, in this Same First Movement

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So All these Syntactic Transformations of the Same Material

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He Talks About this Sonnet

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Because Now it's Time

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But Now Let's Listen to

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Listen to the Whole Exposition

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Development Coming Up

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The Circle of Fifths Again

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And That Was all One Single Sentence

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The Other Day

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The First Would Show Us One Meaning

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Think of this Famous Passage

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A Linguist Would Say

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Well, I Replied, Chomsky Would Say

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Of Course, That Last Metaphorical Leap

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Terrific, Said My Blonde Inquisitor

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In Fact, When You Think of the Number

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All Right, First Let's Look Briefly

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Playing, That's the Word

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But Does This Stravinskian Game Concept

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There Are Three Specific Ways

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Now, Having Defined My Usages of Metaphor

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And Here We Are in Trouble

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Are We Feeling What Beethoven Supposedly Felt

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We Will Never Know

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Now, If We Accept This General Idea

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In Our Last Lecture

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We All Recognize Antithesis

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It Can and It Does

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And Again, as in the Poem

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In Fact, it Has Been Authoritatively Suggested

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We Can Expand the Idea

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What Do You Suppose

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What' Seriously Striking

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So Why the Pastorale on this Lecture

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Let's Begin at the Beginning

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But What of the More Obvious Melodic Material

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But to Develop How

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Now We Have an Insight

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But Wait

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But Why Were Just Those Two Notes Added

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The Metaphor Arises

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But in the Ensuing Four Bars

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But That's Not the Main Event

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Well, That's the Beginning

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That's One of the Questions

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This Interference of the Two Frequencies

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But What Are We to Say

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It Is To Be Found

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Now That's One Way of Looking

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At This Point

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Even if You Can Succeed

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I. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande. Allegro ma non troppo

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II. Scene am Bach. Andante molto moto

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III. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute. Allegro

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IV. Gewitter. Sturm. Allegro

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V. Hirtengesang. Frohe und dankbare Gefühle nach dem Sturm. Allegretto

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When I First Wrote Down the Title

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Part of the Danger

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The Idea of Ambiguity

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Similarly, in Our Second Lecture

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Then What's the Magic Secret

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Enough of Ambiguity

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The Irony of All This

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But, Mind You

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Where Music Was Concerned

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Only Think Of

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And Chopin Well We Can't Ignore Chopin

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And Then, in the Same Little Mazurka

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Foolish Questions

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Let Me Try to Read You

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Listen To This

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They Began to Intermingle

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The Pivotal Point

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So There Is a Dramatic Change

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So it is After All Not So Surprising

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Now If You Noticed

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You See, The Music Is Trying Hard

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So That Instant in Musical Time

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Now Romeo Is All Stirred Up

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1. Roméo Seul: Tristesse - Bruits de Concerts et de Bal - Grand Fête chez Capulet: Andante malinconico e sostenuto

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Allegro - Larghetto espressivo - (Instrumental)

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Allegro - (Instrumental)

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Réunion des duex Themes, du Larghetto et de l'Allegro (Instrumental)

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What a Piece

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Quite Unconsciously Borrowed

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My Purpose In All This

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Is It, Says Wagner

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Every Diminished Seventh Chord

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Now the Remarkable Thing Is

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And This Is What Gives Tristan

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Prelude and Love-Death (From "Tristan and Isolde")

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That May be the Slowest Performance

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But Ultimately

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Poetry Has Begun to Show

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And When Debussy

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It's Lovely, This Dreaming

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For Example, Do You Remember

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In Fact, The Ending of this Piece

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Let Me Show You Briefly

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This New Episode that Proceeds

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For Instance, Hardly Have We Had Time

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Because the Scale

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It's Almost Exactly What Happens

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Literally Translated

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But Notice, Too, that the Example

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Both Works Have Definitive Beginnings

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Listen As I Play

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Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L. 86 (Remastered)

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Some Crazy Modern Music

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Our Lecture Tonight

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Rhapsodie espagnole, M. 54: IV. Feria

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What a Way to Enter the Twentieth Century

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But 1908, if the Truth to be Told

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These Troubling Presentiments

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So, now in 1908

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This Is Atonality

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A Charming Idea

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The Unanswered Question

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I that Luminous Final Triad

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I Have Recently Been Reading

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We Have Already Referred to Some of Those

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In Any Case

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But For All These Reasons

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Son of Tristan

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Now You Look at Those First Two Bars

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Of Course, There Are Lots

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It's as Though a New Covenant

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Trouble is, That the New Musical Rules

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The Kind of Tonal Feeling

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Of Course, There Are Those Who Say

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It Seems Somehow Inevitable

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Is There Possibly the Beginning

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And What About Beethoven's Nineth

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These Are Some of the Problems

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Now Let's Jump Ahead

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Let's Put it Another Way

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First of All, Berg Chose a Tone Row

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So, All in All

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Berg: Violin Concerto (Excerpt)

Rafael Kubelík, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Henryk Szeryng, Leonard Bernstein

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Fantastic

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It Comes at a Point

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Berg: Violin Concerto: II. Allegro, ma sempre rubato -

Leonard Bernstein, Henryk Szeryng, Rafael Kubelík, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

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If This Particularly Demanding Lecture

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If You Really Have Been Thinking

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But While Restudying this Work

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The Twentieth Century

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What Do You Do If You Know All This

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It's Very Strange, How the Pieces

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What Exactly Was This News

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We Emerge From a Cinema

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As You Listen to This Finale

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This is Mahler

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IV. Adagio. Sehr langsam und noch zurückhaltend

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I Know What Your Are Thinking

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What About This

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I Am Plaguing You With this Question

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Of Course What he is Really Talking About

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But It Was Precisely

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Now I Have Just Used Two Words

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In Fact, It Was Satie, Picasso, And Cocteau

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But Our Scene

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Even in the Most

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For Our Purposes

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Musicologists Are Always Pointing

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But Bitonality Does Not Only Serve

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Of Course, Polytonality Can and Does

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Now What's Going On

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And While You Are in That Record Shop

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Of Course, These Asymmetries

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein

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Brutal It May Be

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Now, Remember

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These Are Two Sets

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Just Cast an Eye

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Now That Page of Music

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But the Most Striking Semantic Effect

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This New Aesthetic Relaxation

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Even Some Germans

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You Can See How the Transformation

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Chomsky Himself Gives a Classic Example

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Very Important, The Ironic Element

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So, It Would Seem

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But This Neoclassic Approach

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I Think This Is Again a Moment

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It's the Essence

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If This Poem Were Rewritten

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Why Have I Digressed

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Now Can You Understand

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Untermeyer Called This

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Of Course, With the Waste Land

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But the Thing of It All Is

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We Are Going to Hear

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One Has Only Learnt to Get

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Now I propose Only Because

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This Union Is Possible Only Because

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But What Has All This to Do With Stravinsky

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And This Is the Essence

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Look: Here Is a Joke

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Chilling, Shattering, Neoclassic

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Stravinsky's Own Aesthetic Pronouncements

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But of Course He Was Forced

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And Now We Are Finally Ready

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And Then Mozart Appears

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But This Eclecticism Knows No Bounds

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Now All This I Had Planned to Tell You

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You Think That's Funny

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How About That

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Then Came the Answer

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But Why This Particular Misalliance

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My Words Are Poor