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As I watched The Rite of Spring and The Nutcracker, the music is very different. Knowing time period these two ballets were written in I sort of expected it. The Nutcracker has a lot of musical melodies and themes from the Romantic Period. The Rite of Spring has very aggressive dynamics and very sharp rhythms. The music in The Nutcracker helps the audience set a tone and understand the season that the performance is taking place in as well as what is going on in during the ballet. The music in The Rite of Spring also helps set a tone to the audience, it helps create the mood in the atmosphere. My favorite part about both ballets is how different they were. I’ve never experienced watching a ballet before so it was really interesting to see how
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