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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

"what makes this work a symphony and not a tone poem?"

Well, as Schumann supposedly said when asked about the difference between a sonata and a fantasy, "What's in a name?"!

In the case of the Sibelius Seventh, I've read a number of booklet notes in which the writers try to discern movements within the evolving continuous development of the music. OTOH, I've read other writers who claim that the symphonic poem, "Tapiola", is itself really a symphony (in the same manner as the Seventh, I suppose). I think Sibelius wrote these works at a time when the distinctions between symphony and symphonic poem had already broken down and were not at all clear.


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