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...account both of the exalted status of the gods and heroes who were depicted in them and of the elevating moral messages that they offered to the viewer. At least, this was the theory; the practice was often rather different, as we will see from considering examples produced during the Napoleonic era. This was increasingly to be the case as the nineteenth century...

...account of form: it may be the same section of music, but it may be much longer or shorter. You can see that Example 7, although it describes only a short section of music, contains all the elements identified above. A short initial ascent is followed by a prolongation of the primary tone which covers most of the section, with the last two notes of the fundamental line...