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Nashville Symphony October YPC

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In the upcoming YPC concert "The Magic of Music and Film," students will be exploring tone, instrumentation, genre, character themes, and more. If you go to the Nashville Symphony page you can download a lesson packet with some great resources!  Character Leitmotif  is a musical term where a musical theme represents a character.  This video is a perfect example of what we will probably experience in the show at the Nashville Symphony. Star Wars is also famous for leitmotif. To download the musical notation for Star Wars click here. You can print or look at the sheet music while listening to the music here: On the program for the YPC, Imperial March, Luke's Theme, and Leia's Theme will be performed. Tone In music, another word for tone is timbre and can be used in a similar way that lietmotif is used. The best example is in the musical story Peter and the Wolf by the composer Prokofiev.  Walt Disney also created a movie with the story and music that you can search on