Manuscript/Mixed Material Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [pencil on yellow legal pad paper; [Inserts]]
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Image 1 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [pencil on yellow legal pad … P.3. Insert A But in symphonic music, which is what we're mostly concerned with here, tunes aren't exactly in order, because being complete in themselves, tunes don't cry out for further development.…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 2 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [pencil on yellow legal pad … A-2 Sixth Symphony: ORK. Why, that's practically a whole tune in itself. Or the [famous] favorite theme from Schubert's Unfinished Symphony - ORK. Now what is it about those big, tuneful themes…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 3 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [pencil on yellow legal pad … Insert C (p. 8) So the next time someone tells you that there's no melody in music made out of motives, I hope you'll know what to answer. Motives are as much…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 4 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [pencil on yellow legal pad … C - 2 up in different voices - way down in the bass, or up on top, or in the middle? While the other voices go on singing other melodies. So it's…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 5 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [pencil on yellow legal pad … C - 3 Now that divine melody is a perfect example of the 1-2-3 method we learned about before: first, a phrase (play): then repeat it, slightly altered (play); and, third, the…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 6 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [pencil on yellow legal pad … (p. 13) Insert B. And so on. There are millions of them, examples of the 1-2-3 design; and don't forget that the heart of the matter is repetition: 2 is always a…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 7 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [pencil on yellow legal pad … B-2 But how wrong they are to say that Wagner doesn't write melody! He writes nothing but melody, only it's made out of motives. Let me show you how. (continue, p. 7,…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 8 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [pencil on yellow legal pad … Pt. II [I suppose that what I've been getting at all this time] (Beginning to . . . tiny motives) But the really important reason - and I guess this is what…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 9 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 2 with growing up, and hearing all kinds of music, so people's tastes change from one period of history to another. The melodies people loved in Beethoven's time would have shocked [they…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 10 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 3 [I gather] Now that is a melodic line, 4 minutes of beautiful curves, arches, peaks and valleys. And if there are any of you who did not like it, who found…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962
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Image 11 of Young People's Concerts Scripts: What is a Melody? [pencil on yellow legal pad … 4 very promising in terms of melody, does, it? and yet, what Brahms gives us in this movement is a work of such glowing, fiery melodic invention as to leave us gasping.…
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
- Date: 1962