An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World") (2002)

Track Listing

1. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. A quiet beginning, sorrow, syncopation, and sequence
2. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. Instrumental colour as a prime element: clarinets and bassoons, an outburst by the French
3. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. The opening tune again, with different instrumental colouring: now flutes and oboes
4. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. The first big surprise: strings, shattering drumbeats, shrieks from flutes, oboes, and cla
5. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. Cellos and basses take us into a new key while flutes and oboes dance in syncopation.

1. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. A quiet beginning, sorrow, syncopation, and sequence
2. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. Instrumental colour as a prime element: clarinets and bassoons, an outburst by the French
3. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. The opening tune again, with different instrumental colouring: now flutes and oboes
4. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. The first big surprise: strings, shattering drumbeats, shrieks from flutes, oboes, and cla
5. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. Cellos and basses take us into a new key while flutes and oboes dance in syncopation.
6. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. Horns, violas, and cellos introduce a new idea, soon to evolve into the main theme.
7. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. A tiny detail from the opening culminates in a wild drumming that heralds a major event
8. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. Introduction complete
9. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. A solo horn introduces the main theme, perkily answered by bassoons and horns.
10. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. The theme moves to G major; answering phrase from flutes, oboes, bassoons; the main theme
11. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. Long crescendo, tremolo strings, back to tonic and biggest statement yet of the main theme
12. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. Transition to the secondary theme through the use of sequence. Sonata form; stability and
13. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. Three-bar groupings and again the use of sequence, spelling out a chord
14. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. The sequence continues to rise, and the four-bar phrase returns as the standard unit.
15. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. The first violins start off the next phrase, but the melodic shape is more compact.
16. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. The violins fall silent; the violas and cellos answer with a new figure, a variation of th
17. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. So now we have a two-bar group, made up of statement and answer.
18. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. The same thing again (through not quite the same)
19. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. Transition complete. The secondary theme arrives, with French horns as 'bagpipes'.
20. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. The 'bagpipe drone' is taken over by cellos with their insistently repeated G and D.
21. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. The tune is taken up by cellos and double-basses, 'shadowed' by the second violins; a fanf
22. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. The violins continue a patterns of steady pairs, and the cellos and basses introduce a new
23. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. Unexpectedly, we find ourselves back with the secondary theme. A new idea emerges.
24. An Introduction to Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, Narration with Musical Examples: 1st mvt. Again we hear the shortened version o