text: Near the end of the first section of this work, the opening theme is played a half-step lower, after which the strings play a pizzicato motif of “Db Bb Eb Bb”.
full_question: Near the end of the first section of this work, the opening theme is played a half-step lower, after which the strings play a pizzicato motif of “Db Bb Eb Bb”. The shortest section of this piece is only four bars long and consists mostly of timpani and contrabassoon playing eighth notes on F. That section violently transitions into the fast eighth section of this work with four crescendoing bass drum triplets followed by a dissonant glissando. This piece opens with a long C followed by a mordant on B, and its last section alternates erratically between the time signatures 2/8, 3/8, 2/16, and 3/16. In its second section, the strings repeat an E-flat dominant-seventh chord on top of an F-flat major chord. A high bassoon solo begins, for ten points, what Stravinsky ballet that ends with a “Sacrificial Dance”?
first_sentence: Near the end of the first section of this work, the opening theme is played a half-step lower, after which the strings play a pizzicato motif of “Db Bb Eb Bb”.