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When we get to Mahler and Bruckner,
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the length of the movements can go on even more,
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and an entire symphony of Mahler might go on for an hour and a half,
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so these are bigger.
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The big orchestra has led to longer symphonies
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and the sound obviously is very luxuriant, very opulent.
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The sound in music probably never gets any more opulent than
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it does here at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Two other aspects involved here having to do
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with the physical world and, in a way, technology.
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Of course, the nineteenth century is the period of the
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Industrial Revolution, and some of these innovations,