#123 Composer: Gustav Mahler
a. Title: Kindertotenlieder
i. No. 1, Nun will die Sonn' hell aufgehen
b. Text: by Rückert on the death of his two daughters from scarlet fever.
c. Characteristics:
i. Thin orchestration
ii. chromatic harmony
#124 Composer: Richard Strauss
a. Title: Don Quixote
b. Form: Theme and Variations
c. Themes:
i. Don Quixote
ii. Sancho Panza
iii. Windmill
iv. Sheep
(1) fluttertongue
(2) klangfarbenmelodie
d. Genre: Symphonic Poem
#125 Composer: Modest Musorgsky
a. Title: "The idle, noisy day is over" from Sunless
b. Harmony: Harmonic successions are chosen for their color rather than direction.
#128 Composer: Claude Debussy
a. Title: Nuages from Trois Nocturnes
b. Genre: Symphonic Poem
c. Techniques:
i. fog motif represented by slow moving triplets
ii. pentatonic scales
d. Form: Ternary (ABA)
#129 Composer: Maurice Ravel
a. Title: Le Tombeau de Couperin
b. Form: Menuet
c. Characteristics:
d. Purpose:
i. Tribute to Couperin
ii. Tombeau is a Lamentation