A recurring theme in this work consists of rising sixteenth note-dotted eighth note pattern from a low E-flat to a G. Its first section opens with a descending B-flat minor scale in which each note is held by the strings until the entire scale is heard simultaneously. In its thirteenth section, an unusual passage for solo oboe slowly builds up with the return of many previous themes into a triumphant C major version of the "sun theme". Like its composer's Op. 35, this piece has the oboe and E-flat clarinet flutter-tongue to depict sheep grazing in a pasture. This work depicts a hunting party using 12 offstage horns, and its score also calls for a heckelphone, a wind machine and a thunder machine. A march for the low
A recurring theme in this work consists of rising sixteenth note-dotted eighth note pattern from a low E-flat to a G. Its first section opens with a descending B-flat minor scale in which each note is held by the strings until the entire scale is heard simultaneously. In its thirteenth section, an unusual passage for solo oboe slowly builds up with the return of many previous themes into a triumphant C major version of the "sun theme". Like its composer's Op. 35, this piece has the oboe and E-flat clarinet flutter-tongue to depict sheep grazing in a pasture. This work depicts a hunting party using 12 offstage horns, and its score also calls for a heckelphone, a wind machine and a thunder machine. A march for the lower strings with many upward leaps suggestive of climbing appears in its third section, "The Ascent." For 10 points, name this musical depiction of a day in a European mountain range, a work by Richard Strauss that despite its name is actually a tone poem.