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Mendelssohn Octet in E Flat Major, Op. 20

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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The Speeding Up and Slowing Down of Harmonic Motion

Mendelssohn is showing us in this passage there are two ideas going on, an energetic and rhythmic idea, and a lyrical one. In one sense this is cookie cutter exposition writing in a sonata form movement. But for now Mendelssohn can't resist returning back to his first theme. We've arrived now at one of our rare excursions into a minor key.

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