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that's also used in the overture.
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But it does have a lot to do psychologically,
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because it's a very intense, compressed overture
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and the opera itself-- if you begin to study that and
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the way he's linking scenes
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and the way he's moving his harmonic progressions along--
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it's also a very compressed, intense opera.
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So some of the psychological state of the opera
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is encapsulated in that opening overture,
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but that overture can open other things as well.
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So there the meaning of the Mozart,
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in essence, is the function of the piece--