Score Clue
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Symphony
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The second movement English horn solo was later turned into the spiritual "Goin' Home"
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Dvorak 9th "From the New World"
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This Russian symphony is composed in the style of Haydn and contains an extremely short gavotte
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Prokofiev 1st "Classical"
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The opening motif of the first movement begins with an ascending minor sixth in the strings
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Shostakovich 5th
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The fourth movement soprano soloist sings about a child's view of heaven
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Mahler 4th
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The opening motif is based on the phrase "Frei aber froh", or "free but happy"
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Brahms 3rd
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The second movement is a "limping waltz" in 5/4 time and the first movement quotes from Orthodox chant
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Tchaikovsky 6th "Pathétique"
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The fourth movement fugue is based on the note sequence C-D-F-E
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Mozart 41st "Jupiter"
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This one-movement symphony unusually presents all themes in C major while almost constantly changing tempi
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Sibelius 7th
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The third movement prominently features the tune Frère Jacques and klezmer-inspired melodies
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Mahler 1st
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The second movement allegretto in A minor has a long-short-short-long-long rhythm
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Beethoven 7th
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The first movement quotes from the William Tell Overture and the fourth features Wagner's "Fate" leitmotif
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Shostakovich 15th
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The fourth movement prominently features a "battle" between two timpanis that change pitch during the passage
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Nielsen 4th "Inextinguishable"
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One melodic motive prominently features a grupetto while another uses the "gypsy" scale
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Rachmaninoff 1st
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The first movement opens with an E-flat major hemiola rhythm and the fourth is inspired by a cathedral
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Schumann 3rd "Rhenish"
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The slow introduction to the first movement opens with a dotted ascending D-A
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Haydn 104th "London"
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The second movement contains a cymbal crash, supposedly at the moment the composer heard of Wagner's death
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Bruckner 7th
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The fifth movement "Dream of a Witch's Sabbath" prominently quotes the Dies Irae
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Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
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The fourth movement features snap rhythms reminiscent of the title region
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Mendelssohn 3rd "Scottish"
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The C major first movement opens with an applied dominant chord and is sometimes called a "musical joke"
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Beethoven 1st
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Each movement is preceded by the reading of a line of poetry, such as "Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime"
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Vaughan Williams 7th "Sinfonia Antartica"
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