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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,
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reaching higher and higher each time.
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So it's a really remarkable passage.
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It's made possible by this newly enlarged orchestra
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so let's talk about this orchestra for a moment,
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and we're going to reference here our four "Food