Making Sense of Music with Susan McClary
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The Violence of Tonal Music
I've had students get up and leave the room crying when we have, when we're listening to that piece, not because anything I've said. There was a mini hysteria fit just in Minnesota when it came out of the museum. And Adrian Rich, the great fundamentalist poet, had just written the poem, you know, about Beethoven's ninth. But then the first movement that is kind of cosmic.
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