This guide follows Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (1936) in one part.
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Follow all 9 sections as they play
The first violins begin alone on a soft B-flat with the stepwise melody, and the lower strings follow two beats later. The viola then takes the , and the music continues in a new . A dissonant leads to the cello's turn with the . Next the climbs into a higher for the first violins, and the builds. After the peak, a and a pause, the opening and dies away.
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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