"Fossils," from Carnival of the Animals, features, for 10 points, what percussion instrument Camille Saint-Saens used to represent rattling bones?
In the third movement of George Crumb's Echoes of Time and the River, this instrument spells out Crumb's name in Morse code. It plays a repeated melodic fragment consisting of a leap down a minor ninth from B-flat to A, followed by G-sharp, A, leap up to B-flat, leap down to A, at the outset of an orchestral work derived from the ballet Cave of the Heart. Six bars into the "Polka" from Dmitri Shostakovich's The Golden Age, this instrument introduces the movement's main melody. Flutes, oboes, clarinets, piano, strings, and this instrument begin rapid, constant 16th note figuration in the fourth bar of the overture to Porgy and Bess. It joins a clarinet, strings, and two pianos in a movement that quotes the folk songs "Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman" and "Au clair de la lune," in which it parodies its own part from the Danse macabre. "Fossils," from Carnival of the Animals, features, for 10 points, what percussion instrument Camille Saint-Saens used to represent rattling bones?
In the third movement of George Crumb's Echoes of Time and the River, this instrument spells out Crumb's name in Morse code.
xylophone [do not accept or prompt on “marimba” or “glockenspiel” or any other mallet/keyboard percussion instrument]