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*is usually "absolute music," without a specific story line to it (unlike "program music," such as Rimsky-Korsakov's ''Scheherazade'' or Smetana's ''Ma Vlast'')
*is usually "absolute music," without a specific story line to it (unlike "program music," such as Rimsky-Korsakov's ''Scheherazade'' or Smetana's ''Ma Vlast'')
*is usually in four separate parts, called ''movements,'' with the first movement following a pattern called "Sonata-allegro form."
*is usually in four separate parts, called ''movements,'' with the first movement following a pattern called "Sonata-allegro form."
Some famous, familiar, and easily appreciated symphonies include:
*Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World," with themes that have the flavor of black spirituals to them.
*Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, with the choral "Ode to Joy" in the fourth movement. This piece was performed by Leonard Bernstein to celebrate the fall of the Berlin wall.
*Mozart's Symphony No. 40
==Notes and references==
==Notes and references==
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