A five note dotted quarter note melody that descends one octave is the center of this piece's intermissive passage in its parallel key of D major.
A five note dotted quarter note melody that descends one octave is the center of this piece's intermissive passage in its parallel key of D major. Written to mock the music critic Henry Chorley, this short piano piece in 6/8 time gains its quirkiness through the contrast between its melancholy tone and bouncy eighth note march rhythm. Composed in 1872, during the composer's time in England and twenty years after he turned Bach's Prelude in C Major into an Ave Maria, this piece gained popularity as a 1950's television theme song. FTP, name this Charles Gounod work used as the theme for Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
A five note dotted quarter note melody that descends one octave is the center of this piece's intermissive passage in its parallel key of D major.
{Funeral March of a Marionette} or {Marche Funebre d’une Marionette}