Analyzing Tchaikovsky's 'Romeo And Juliet'

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I choose to discuss how Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet convey particular characters, places, or events? From the moment the piece started, I could hear two distinctive themes throughout the song. The two themes that I noticed the pieces had was a love and a feud theme. Throughout the piece, you can tell when certain characters or events are happening. For example, when the music is light happy and calm sounding you can assume a happy or romantic part is coming up or about to happen. When the piece speeds up and was very dramatic and loud, you can assume that a fight was about to happened or something very intense. When the music would sound slow and calm I believe that they were introducing a friend or a loved one but when the Music speeds

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