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Cécile Chaminade’s (“shah-mee-NOD’s”) Opus 61 is a G-minor piece with this title that begins with an ascending octave-and-a-half arpeggio across both hands. A piano piece with this title has two darker episodes marked “Minore I” (“mee-NO-ray one”) and “Minore II” within a faster outer section that begins “Leicht und zart” (“liked oont tsart”). That piece with this title is Robert Schumann’s Opus 18, written as a companion piece to his Blumenstück while forcibly separated from Clara. An 1888 piece with this title begins with the left hand playing the ascending triplet “C-sharp, E, A,” which is continued by the right-hand triplet “C-sharp, (10[2])E, (10[2])F-sharp.” Beginning (10[1])pianists (10[1])often learn an (10[1])A-minor (10[1])piece with this title (10[1])by Friedrich Burgmüller. (-5[1])In ballet, (10[3])this is the name (-5[1])of the position (10[1])in which one leg (10[1])extends straight backwards. (10[5])For 10 (10[1])points, give this title of two Debussy piano pieces (10[1])evoking Islamic art. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: arabesque [or Arabeske]
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