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Symphonic ideal
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BBD a10009723
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MT Music terms
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The model of symphonic writing represented by Beethoven's Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth symphonies, characterized by forcefulness, expanded range and evident radical intent which set them apart from symphonies in the 18th-century tradition (paraphrased from the New Grove Beethoven, p. 107)
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MUSIC TERMS
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Symphonies