
Scene Breakdown: Mozart‘s Magic Flute
Attention to Detail: The Classical Music Listening Guide
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The Glockenspiel and the Harmonic Harmony of Four
Mozart creates this kind of bell-like fluttering texture just for a moment and then immediately switches to a very lyrical character on the matter of seconds. One other thing to mention because now they're kind of bidding farewell to the heroes telling them to go off on their quest I want to point out a harmony that gets used here. So when they sing this farewell this is the harmony that we hear. It's an incredible musical little quirk nod here that on this word of farewell Mozart is doing these little plagal inflections it gives it this kind of you know goodbye farewell quality but also it's kind ofIt's kind of an inside musical genius quirk of his that
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