This guide follows Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (1924) in one part.
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Follow all 6 sections as they play, free for 3 days
One long, free that begins with the clarinet's rising slide (A). The labelled sections B, C, D, E and F follow. Listen for the same blues-scale ideas coming back in new settings, from quick, stride-style piano playing (a jazz style with a bouncing left hand) to broad orchestral passages. The varies widely, with a lot of , and the music finally to its home , B-flat major, at the end.
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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Twelve directions the century took, from Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht of 1899 to Piazzolla's tango of 1982.
Schoenberg → Ives → Bartók → Holst → Gershwin → Barber → Prokofiev → Copland → Ligeti → Górecki → Piazzolla
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