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Scene Breakdown: Mozart‘s Magic Flute

Attention to Detail: The Classical Music Listening Guide

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Mozart's Hexatonic Relationship

Mozart moves to a key that isn't the most standards key we would expect him to. He slips back into B major at the end of this clip just by making a hexatonic shift which is something that Schubert might have done but he was you know cutting edge in this way. So I think it's a really interesting would probably normally go unnoticed little quirk of this scene.

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