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same thing with the orchestra
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and we'll come back to that point today.
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Mozart had a modest orchestra.
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Mahler at the end of this period had a huge orchestra.
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So this allows for these wild swings.
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The romantic period is sort of a bipolar period,
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I guess, in terms of music in that regard.
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Okay. Having said that, let's listen to what we might
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call a prototypical moment in romantic music out of
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Tchaikovsky's overture to Romeo and Juliet.
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Now it starts to build, a little bit of melodic
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sequence working up here,