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Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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The Whole Step Motive in the Brass
Two cellos and one english horn play a plaintive melody in a whole tone scale, of course. It's the first sense of real mystery and even fear in the music. After all that celebration, s we are lost. And then, from nowhere, the brass enter with what one commentator has called, quote, the hymn of the deep. The majesty of hokusi's painting is as clear as ever in this moment.
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