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ISBN: 1560983825
Summary: Presents music in a series of interesting symphonic works in an imaginative and dramatic setting to illustrate the principle that music must stand on its own merits as sound regardless of any story of extramusical meaning that may be attached to it. Includes Ravel's La Valse and excerpts from Rossini's William Tell overture, Richard Strauss' Don Quixote, Beethoven's Symphony no. 6, Mussorgsky's Pictures at an exhibition, Tchaikovsky's symphonies nos. 4 and 5, and Webern's Six pieces.
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