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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop douceur

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brought to you by the song that never ends seriously

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Old composer dudes too long didn't read Alright okay here's

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your question Which of the following answers describes a musical

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section that occurs at the end of a piece of

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music and hear the pencil answers Barbra streisand your heart

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out okay it only feels like some classical music pieces

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are endless When composers finally do wrap it up they

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usually do it with a flourish unless they're haydn That

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guy loved his surprises so let's check out our choices

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Sonata refers to a musical form not a section of

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a piece that rules out answer a a lesion refers

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to two connecting phrases of music without a break between

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them Sounds like a great end to a song if

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you're writing a song that never ends so forget answer

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d and phrase extension literally does what it says it

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extends a phrase so it literally can't be answered c

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that leaves us with coda which as it happens is

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a lovely italian word meaning tail as the three time

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champion of shmoop ce annual pin the tail on the

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donkey contest We can tell you with authority that the

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tail is found at the end unless you're bob from

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accounting than the tale is on the water cooler One

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of these years bob Appropriately the final section of musical

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piece is called the coda And if you ever see

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