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summarized that "This album was the group's magnum opus in the perception of many onlookers and fans, and it still plays well, though its flaws are more evident than they were at the time." He described "Song of
Scheherazade" as having a strong continuity throughout the work and a number of genuinely
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Renaissance site, Northern Lights, assigning exact composing credits to the individual sections is difficult, since the composers borrowed themes from each other. For example, based on the official credits, which differ slightly between
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There is confusion over where the sections of "Song of
Scheherazade" begin and end. This was caused by the fact that "Fanfare" and "The Betrayal" together sound like a single section, while "Festival Preparations" has two distinct parts of its own (4:00 and 1:11 in length). This confusion was
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Michael Dunford, Betty Thatcher, and John Tout, but the inner sleeve and BMI records (see BMI Work #2014030) both credit only Dunford and
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the actual album package and the official
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beautiful and powerful passages, but also as being pretentious and repetitive, and judged the other three songs on the album as more completely successful.
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