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Exploring Extremes: Loud and Quiet: The Deal with Dynamics

ARTSEDGE: The Kitchen Sink

English - October 01, 2014 14:14 - 11 minutes - 133 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
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Students learn that composers use musical dynamics or extremes in volume to create music. By listening to Gustav Mahler’s Symphonies No. 2 and No. 5, students also experience the role extreme dynamics plays in expressing big emotions and ideas.