Based on a text by Henri Cazalis, this piece requires one string of a solo violin to be tuned a half-step low in order to play E flat and A tritones.
Lemare transcribed this piece for pipe organ, as did Vladimir Horowitz for piano, and its original instrumentation ends with an oboe sustaining an octave to represent a cock's crow, followed by scales to represent scurrying. Based on a text by Henri Cazalis, this piece requires one string of a solo violin to be tuned a half-step low in order to play E flat and A tritones. For 10 points, identify this piece which begins with twelve repetitions of a harp playing D, signifying a clock striking midnight, and in which, like in Fossils, a xylophone is used to represent the jangling bones of skeletons that have left their graves, a work by Camille Saint-Saëns.
Lemare transcribed this piece for pipe organ, as did Vladimir Horowitz for piano, and its original instrumentation ends with an oboe sustaining an octave to represent a cock's crow, followed by scales to represent scurrying.
{Danse Macabre}