This piece opens with a crescendoing minor chord whose outer voices move in a half step to a sforzando dominant seventh. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this orchestral piece whose slow final section is sometimes performed with a choir after being reworked by its composer into a hymn.
ANSWER: Finlandia [or Jean Sibelius’s Op. 26]
[10e] In another Sibelius tone poem, the English horn represents one of these animals “of Tuonela.” In a movement of Saint-Saens’s Carnival of the Animals, a lyrical cello solo and piano arpeggios depict one of these animals gliding over water.
ANSWER: swans [accept Le cygne]
[10m] An early Sibelius tone poem is titled for a “Song” of this time period. A “mood picture” by Fredrick Delius is titled On Hearing the First Cuckoo in [this time period].
ANSWER: spring
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