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The first notes on the clarinet are simply a rising scale, but it is split down the middle: the first half belongs to C-sharp major, the second half to G major. This is an unsettling opening, for several reasons.
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The Rest is Noise: Listening to Music in the Twentieth Century
(book)
by Alex Ross
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