Path 07
Ten minutes or less
Short, complete works for a single sitting.
Bach → Mozart → Haydn → Beethoven → Schubert → Mendelssohn → Saint-Saëns → Sibelius → Ravel → Debussy → Gershwin → Copland
The Swan of Tuonela, Op. 22 No. 2
This guide follows Sibelius’s The Swan of Tuonela, Op. 22 No. 2 (1895) in one part.
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Follow all 7 sections as they play
0:05–9:11
An A minor chord opens the piece and rises in , octave by octave. The cor anglais then enters with its main melody, and the same melody comes back as the third . Twice the drifts into freer, wandering lines (the free melody). Then an for the strings in interrupts the lines. The follows.
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Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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