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From the Ted Talk by Michael Tilson Thomas: Music and emotion through time
Unscramble the Blue Letters
And there began to be a real difference at this point between the art of improvisation and the art of composition. Now an improviser senses and plays the next cool move, but a composer is considering all possible moves, tnetisg them out, prioritizing them out, until he sees how they can form a pofeurwl and coherent design of ultimate and eiudrnng coolness. Now some of the greatest composers, like Bach, were combinations of these two things. Bach was like a great improviser with a mind of a chses msaetr. Mozart was the same way.
Open Cloze
And there began to be a real difference at this point between the art of improvisation and the art of composition. Now an improviser senses and plays the next cool move, but a composer is considering all possible moves, _______ them out, prioritizing them out, until he sees how they can form a ________ and coherent design of ultimate and ________ coolness. Now some of the greatest composers, like Bach, were combinations of these two things. Bach was like a great improviser with a mind of a _____ ______. Mozart was the same way.
Solution
- powerful
- testing
- master
- enduring
- chess
Original Text
And there began to be a real difference at this point between the art of improvisation and the art of composition. Now an improviser senses and plays the next cool move, but a composer is considering all possible moves, testing them out, prioritizing them out, until he sees how they can form a powerful and coherent design of ultimate and enduring coolness. Now some of the greatest composers, like Bach, were combinations of these two things. Bach was like a great improviser with a mind of a chess master. Mozart was the same way.
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