This piece's second section begins with the strings percussively repeating an E-flat dominant-seventh chord on top of an F-flat major chord, with the horns adding accents on seemingly random beats.
In the penultimate section of this piece, the alto flute plays "B-D-B-G-sharp-C" [please pronounce slowly] after many repetitions of an English horn motive that chromatically rapidly ascends from E to a sustained G sharp. The third-to-last section of this piece, played over a low E flat, is a repetitive C-major fanfare that is later played by the bassoons. Near the end of the fast third section of this piece, repeated measures of eighth-note string tremolos alternating between 6/8 and 3/4 are interrupted by first one loud quarter- note chord for the whole orchestra; then two; then a bass drum THWACK followed by a chord. The second section of this piece's second part ends with a measure containing 11 loud repeated chords. This piece's second section begins with the strings percussively repeating an E-flat dominant-seventh chord on top of an F-flat major chord, with the horns adding accents on seemingly random beats. For 10 points, name this piece that begins with a very high bassoon solo, a ballet by Igor Stravinsky.
In the penultimate section of this piece, the alto flute plays "B-D-B-G-sharp-C" [please pronounce slowly] after many repetitions of an English horn motive that chromatically rapidly ascends from E to a sustained G sharp.
The Rite of Spring [or Le Sacre du printemps; or Vesna svyashchennaya]