What instruments are used in Pines of Rome?
Instrumentation: 3 flutes, 3 oboes, 3 clarinets, 3 bassoons; 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba; strings; percussion. Born in 1879, the Bolognese master Ottorino Respighi lived most of his life in the 20th century (he died in 1936).
What key is Pines of Rome in?
A major
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Is Pines of Rome in public domain?
It portrays noisy children playing soldiers and marching in the pine groves of the Borghese gardens. This file is a work of a United States Marine or employee, taken or made as part of that person’s official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain.
How many movements are in the Pines of Rome?
four movements
Pines of Rome is structured in four movements played without pause so that the music flows uninterrupted from beginning to end. The first movement, “The Pines of Villa Borghese,” features rambunctious tunes that depict children at play in the pine groves.
What live sound did Respighi incorporate into the Pines of Rome?
nightingale
The Pines of the Janiculum (I pini del Gianicolo, lento) Respighi took the opportunity to have the sound of a nightingale recorded onto a phonograph and requested in the score that it be played at the movement’s ending, the first such instance in music.
What inspired him to write Pines of Rome?
Aside from Rome’s distinctive pine trees, another source of inspiration likely came in 1920 when Elsa had introduced him to some songs she had sung while playing in the Borghese Gardens as a little girl.
What unusual instrument did Ottorino Respighi include in the third movement of the Pines of Rome?
Respighi took the opportunity to have the sound of a nightingale recorded onto a phonograph and requested in the score that it be played at the movement’s ending, the first such instance in music.
Who wrote The Pines of Rome?
Ottorino Respighi
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