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What Is.... Episodes

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    Oratorios

    Large-scale musical compositions for solo voices. But are any of them genuinely spiritual?

  2. Cadenzas

    When the rest of the players in the ensemble stop, and the soloist plays a solo for a bit

  3. The Quartet

    What are the relationships between the instruments in a string quartet?

  4. The Solo

    Solos, their relationship with their accompaniment, and the resulting whole