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Touch at a Distance

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Exploring the Fascinating Music in the Play

The play is a pagan ritual with a massacre at the end, but the music is fascinating. It starts with a charming bassoon that sounds like the earth warming, then becomes more disturbing with flutes. Suddenly, there's an earthquake with a chord that structures the entire piece. It's incredibly dissonant and painful to hear. What happened next?

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