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Scene Breakdown: Mozart‘s Magic Flute

Attention to Detail: The Classical Music Listening Guide

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Mozart's Tonic Progression Creates Happiness in Listeners

Mozart writes what's called a tonic pedal which means that in the bass voices we have one note repeated over and over while the melody is changing harmony on top. A very satisfying chord progression to listen to when it actually happens in fast motion when they sing this this this portion. So next let's listen to another stretch of music. Papagano here is trying to escape. He doesn't want to face Zoroastro still he's kind of a coward. We won't mention too much about this but again a passage like so many in the magic flute that's you might not even notice but it's very much before it's it's time despite just sounding like more beautiful

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