In Ravel's L'enfant et les sortileges, this is the first thing after the armchairs to come to life.
In Ravel's L'enfant et les sortileges, this is the first thing after the armchairs to come to life. A representation of one of these things provides the transition between the Adagio third movement and the fugal finale of a Strauss tone poem about a mother, father, and child. Harp harmonics are used to represent one of these things in the opening of Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 2. Leroy Anderson wrote a piece titled for a "syncopated" one of these things. In a suite from an opera, a movement representing one of these follows "The Fairy Tale Begins;" that Viennese one of these appears in the Háry János Suite. One of these things provides the subtitle for Haydn's Symphony No. 101. For 10 points, name these mechanical objects, which are sometimes portrayed as ringing the hours.
In Ravel's L'enfant et les sortileges, this is the first thing after the armchairs to come to life.
clocks [accept chimes; be very generous, and prompt on "bells"]