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Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 What Does Music Mean?
- Season 1 What is American Music?
- Season 1 What is Orchestration?
- Season 1 What Makes Music Symphonic?
- Season 1 What is Classical Music?
- Season 1 Humor in Music
- Season 1 What is a Concerto?
- Season 1 Who is Gustav Mahler?
- Season 1 Young Performers No. 1
- Season 1 Unusual Instruments of Present, Past, and Future
- Season 1 The Second Hurricane
- Season 1 Overtures and Preludes
- Season 1 Aaron Copland Birthday Party
- Season 1 Young Performers No. 2
- Season 1 Folk Music in the Concert Hall
- Season 1 What is Impressionism?
- Season 1 The Road to Paris
- Season 1 Happy Birthday, Igor Stravinsky
- Season 1 Young Performers No. 3
- Season 1 The Sound of a Hall
- Season 1 What is a Melody?
- Season 1 Young Performers No. 4
- Season 1 The Latin American Spirit
- Season 1 A Tribute to Teachers
- Season 1 Young Performers No. 5
- Season 1 The Genius of Paul Hindemith
- Season 1 Jazz in the Concert Hall
- Season 1 What is Sonata Form?
- Season 1 Farewell to Nationalism
- Season 1 Young Performers No. 6
- Season 1 A Tribute to Sibelius
- Season 1 Musical Atoms: A Study of Intervals
- Season 1 The Sound of an Orchestra
- Season 1 A Birthday Tribute to Shostakovich
- Season 1 Young Performers No. 7
- Season 1 What is a Mode?
- Season 1 Young Performers No. 8
- Season 1 Charles Ives: American Pioneer
- Season 1 Alumni Reunion
- Season 1 A Toast to Vienna in 3/4 Time
- Season 1 Forever Beethoven
- Season 1 Young Performers No. 9
- Season 1 Quiz-Concert: How Musical Are You?
- Season 1 Fantastic Variations (Don Quixote)
- Season 1 Bach Transmogrified
- Season 1 Berlioz Takes a Trip
- Season 1 Two Ballet Birds
- Season 1 Fidelio: A Celebration of Life
- Season 1 The Anatomy of a Symphony Orchestra
- Season 1 A Copland Celebration
- Season 1 Thus Spake Richard Strauss
- Season 1 Liszt and the Devil
- Season 1 Holst: The Planets
New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts - Season 1 Episode 4 What Makes Music Symphonic?
0.00 48 minutes Using the examples of Mozart's Jupiter Symphony and Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony, Bernstein demonstrates the techniques of repetition and variation int he development of symphonic music. After conducting part of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, he asks the audience to sing "Frére Jacques," demonstrating the uses of sequence and imitation in symphonic composition. The final movement of Brahm's Second Symphony is then analyzed and played.
