What Makes Music Symphonic?

Presents Leonard Berstein in a lecture-demonstration on the symphony as a musical form. Develops an analogy between music and life. Discusses the techniques of repetition, variation, sequence and imitation, and counterpoint. Mr. Bernstein, with the New York Philharmonic, plays various movements from symphonies by Tschaikowsky, Beethoven, and Brahms.

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