One of this composer's piano pieces repeats four-beat rhythmic units four times, each time accelerating the tempo of thenotes, from single quarter, to dotted eighths, to bundles of sixteenth notes.
One of this composer's piano pieces repeats four-beat rhythmic units four times, each time accelerating the tempo of thenotes, from single quarter, to dotted eighths, to bundles of sixteenth notes. This composer reversed the order of the allegrorisoluto second and andante sostenuto third movements of one of his symphonies, in which the Dies Irae is played at half speedon the strings in a movement based on a folk song about a mother learning about her son's death. This composer of a Toccatain E-flat minor used a bell to open and close his second symphony, and put in a series of trombone glissandos in a piecewhose A section's theme is interrupted by a cymbal clash in one of its repetitions. An oft-excerpted Adagio about the lovebetween Phrygia and the title character appears in one of his ballets, and another, which is set at a collective farm, contains afast-paced excerpt that begins with the xylophones playing F sharps. For 10 points, name this Armenian composer of Spartacusand Gayane, which includes the "Sabre Dance."
One of this composer's piano pieces repeats four-beat rhythmic units four times, each time accelerating the tempo of thenotes, from single quarter, to dotted eighths, to bundles of sixteenth notes.
Aram Khachaturian