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Deryck Cooke

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Deryck Cooke (14 September 1919 – 27 October 1976) was a British musician, musicologist and broadcaster. Cooke was born in Leicester to a poor and working class family; his father died when he was a child, but his mother was able to afford piano lessons. Cooke acquired a brilliant technique and began to compose. He won an organ scholarship to Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he was taught by Patrick Hadley and Robin Orr. His undergraduate studies were interrupted by the Second World War

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  1. Symphony No. 10 in F Sharp: III. Purgatorio (Allegretto moderato)
  2. Symphony No. 10 in F Sharp: I. Adagio
  3. Mahler: Symphony No. 10: I. Adagio - Andante
  4. Symphony No. 10 in F Sharp: II. Scherzo
  5. Symphony No. 10 in F Sharp: V. Finale
  6. Symphony No. 10 in F Sharp: IV. [Scherzo]
  7. Mahler: Symphony No. 10: III. Purgatorio (Allegretto moderato)
  8. Mahler: Symphony No. 10: II. Scherzo-Finale
  9. Mahler: Symphony No. 10: IV. Scherzo, "Der Teufel tanzt es mit mir"
  10. Mahler: Symphony No. 10: V. Finale (Einleitung - Allegro moderato)
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  1. Mahler: Symphony No. 10 in F-Sharp Major: I. Adagio
  2. Symphony No. 10: I. Adagio
  3. Mahler: Symphony No. 10 in F-Sharp Major: V. Finale
  4. Of all great musical compositions ... [Examples 1-4]
  5. The fundamental symbol ... [Examples 5-11]
  6. Mahler: Symphony No. 10 in F-Sharp Major: III. Purgatorio
  7. One further motive connected ...
  8. So much for nature. [Examples 26-38]
  9. Example 92: 'The label 'flight'...'
  10. Examples 69, 73-75: 'In Act Two of Walküre...'
  11. Examples 1-4: 'Of all great musical compositions..'
  12. Examples 45-48: 'The other transformation...'
  13. One further motive belongs ...
  14. This masterly way ...
  15. Mahler: Symphony No. 10 in F-Sharp Major: II. Scherzo
  16. Returning now to the Nature Motive ... [Examples 6, 12-16]
  17. A number of further motives ... [Examples 5, 17-21]
  18. A second, much smaller family ... [Examples 22-25]
  19. Examples 22-25: 'A second, much smaller family...'
  20. Examples 5,17-21: 'A number of further motives...'
  21. Examples 6, 12-16: 'Returning now to the Nature Motive...'
  22. Examples 84-87: 'Later in the same scene...'
  23. Examples 88-91: 'Freia's Motive has two independent segments...'
  24. Examples 69-72: 'Along another, more complex line...'
  25. Examples 104-109: 'The other new motive...'
  26. Example 121: 'One further motive belongs...'
  27. Examples 10, 181-183: 'Our final example...'
  28. Examples 181-183: 'In the final scene of Götterdämmerung...'
  29. Examples 192, 193: 'This masterly way...'
  30. The characters in whose lives ...
  31. Ironically, this phrase ...
  32. There are one or two motives ...
  33. These motives of Alberich and Mime ...
  34. Quite a number of the subsidiary motives ...
  35. The cause of the deterioration ... [Examples 39-44]
  36. Mahler: Symphony No. 10 in F-Sharp Major: IV. Scherzo
  37. Here we come to the end ...
  38. Besides this famliy of motives ...
  39. In the final scene of Götterdämmerung ...
  40. Of all great musical compositions..
  41. The fundamental symbol..
  42. Examples 26-38: 'So much for nature..'
  43. Examples 162-168: 'There are one or two motives...'
  44. Examples 49-52: 'Several other motives...'
  45. Examples 80-83: ' Love is another of the central symbols..'
  46. Examples 150-157; 'One last central symbol...'
  47. Examples 177-180: 'Besides the family of motives...'
  48. Examples 104-109
  49. Examples 39-44: 'The cause of the deterioration...'
  50. Examples 147-149; 'Complmentary to this symbol...'
  51. Examples 122-130: 'The Sword motive recurs...'
  52. Examples 93-98: 'When Fasolt, in Scene Two of Rhinegold...'
  53. Examples 131-135: 'Ironically this phrase...'
  54. Examples 1..4
  55. Example 121
  56. Examples 189-191: 'Now if we return...'
  57. Returning now to the Nature Motive..
  58. A number of further motives..
  59. Examples 122-130
  60. The Sword Motive recurs ...
  61. Examples 110-114
  62. Examples 150-157
  63. The other new motive ...
  64. There are several independant love-motives ...
  65. Closely associated with Gutrune's Motive ...
  66. Complementary to this symbol ...
  67. One last central symbol ...
  68. Our final example ...
  69. Even more masterly ...
  70. Now if we return ...
  71. Examples 22..25
  72. The other transformation ... [Examples 45-48]
  73. Jascha Horenstein in conversation with Deryck Cooke
  74. 1. Of all great musical compositions (Ex.1-4)
  75. Examples 5-11: 'The fundamental symbol...'
  76. Examples 41, 53-61: 'Two further motives...'
  77. Examples 76-79 'Returning now to Act Two of Walküre...'
  78. Examples 99-103: 'A little later in this interlude...'
  79. Examples 110-114: 'There are several independent love-motives...'
  80. Examples 115-120: 'The characters in whose lives...'
  81. Examples 136-140; 'Closely associated with Gutrune's Motive...'
  82. Examples 141-146: 'Here we come to the end...'
  83. Examples 158-161; 'One further motive connected...'
  84. Examples 169-171: 'These motives of Alberich and Mime...'
  85. Examples 172-176: 'Quite a number of the subsidiary motives...'
  86. Examples 184-188: 'Even more masterly...'
  87. A second, much smaller family..
  88. Examples 115-120
  89. Examples 93..98
  90. The cause of the deterioration..

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