Background

  • Composed: 1892 – 1894 
  • Genre: Orchestral Tone Poem 
  • First Performance: 22nd December 1984, Paris 

Resources 

  • Symphony Ochestra 
  • No heavy brass, 4 horns
  • No timpani, antique cymbals
  • 2 harps
  • Flute represents panpipes 
  • Strings are not dominant 
  • Harp 2 needs to retune at bar 21

Structure

  • Ternary with coda
  • SECTION A: Ternary (intro to theme, transition, return to theme)
  • SECTION B: Melofy played 3x (woodwind, upper strings, solo violin)
  • SECTION A: Repeat of intro to theme only

Melody

  • Main melodic ideas: Opening chromatic phrase,