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the themes,the melodies,become much more expansive,
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and someone I think said earlier on here it has--
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maybe the first point was there's pretty regular meter
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in this particular piece of Classical music by Mozart,
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the "Mozart Bassoon Concerto," K.191. Is that right?
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And so the regularity of the themes and the balance and symmetry
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is part and parcel of the Classical period.
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You move into the Romantic. You have expansive themes,
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but by way of contradistinction there,
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then the rhythm becomes not necessarily more flaccid, but more loose,
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and we talked about this phenomenon of rubato, for example.
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So flexible rhythms, flexible tempos, less clear meters in the Romantic period.