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This composer included the direction “slithering” and quoted the Dies Irae in a movement written after visiting the Butantan Institute’s snake farm, which this composer included in his Brazilian Impressions. French horns play a long-short-long rhythm on G to imitate conchs in a movement by this composer that depicts a dance of naiads and tritons. Transcriptions of lute pieces by Renaissance composers (10[2])like Vincenzo Galilei appear in this composer’s three sets of Ancient Airs and Dances. (10[1])Six buccine (“boo-CHEE-nay”) feature in a piece by this composer, who instructs the clarinet to play “like a dream” in a solo that precedes a phonograph recording of a nightingale. Tone poems by this (-5[1])composer depict four fountains (10[1])in the title city (10[2])and trees along the Appian Way. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Italian composer of The Pines of Rome. ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: Ottorino Respighi
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