One of these objects titles a Beethoven-inspired 1981 piece that begins with a gong strike, and then a pedal point G on percussion. Episodes marked “Celestially light” bookend a piece titled for one of these objects, whose many silences exemplify a kind of negative space called ma. This kind of object titles Joan Tower’s first orchestral piece, as well as two piano “sketches,” the latter written for the death of Messiaen, by Tōru Takemitsu. In a piece titled for these objects, the last movement is a march introduced by low strings playing tritones, which builds to the offstage entrance of six ancient brass instruments called buccine (“boo-CHEE-nay”). That piece’s third movement uses a phonograph recording of a nightingale to depict these objects on the Janiculum. For 10 points, name these objects that title a Respighi tone poem about Rome. ■END■
ANSWER: trees [accept pines, sequoias, evergreens, or conifers; accept Pines of Rome or Pini di Roma; accept Rain Tree or Ame no ki; accept Rain Tree Sketch II or Ame no ki sobyō II; prompt on plants]
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