The “Fossils” movement of one work is scored for strings, two pianos, clarinet, and this instrument. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this percussion instrument that plays a motif beginning [read slowly] G, B flat, G, A, B flat, in another work to depict the rattling of bones. This instrument is a smaller relative of the marimba.
ANSWER: xylophone
[10e] The xylophone is employed in the aforementioned “Fossils” movement of this fourteen movement piece by Camille Saint-Saëns (“san-SON”). The only published movement from this piece before Saint-Saëns’s death is “The Swan.”
ANSWER: The Carnival of the Animals [or Le Carnaval des animaux]
[10h] The xylophone is used to represent the rattling of bones in this other piece by Saint-Saëns, which begins with 12 Ds played on the harp to represent a clock striking midnight.
ANSWER: Danse Macabre
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