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The Rite of Spring The opening melody is played by a solo bassoon in a very high register, which renders the instrument almost unidentifiable;[121] gradually other woodwind instruments are sounded and are eventually joined by strings.[122] The sound builds up before stopping suddenly, Hill says, "just as it is bursting ecstatically into bloom". There is then a reiteration of the opening bassoon solo, now played a semitone lower.[123]
The Rite of Spring Part II has a greater cohesion than its predecessor. Hill describes the music as following an arc stretching from the beginning of the Introduction to the conclusion of the final dance.[131] Woodwind and muted trumpets are prominent throughout the Introduction, which ends with a number of rising cadences on strings and flutes. The transition into the "Mystic Circles" is almost imperceptible; the main theme of the section has been prefigured in the Introduction. A loud repeated chord, which Berger likens to a call to order, announces the moment for choosing the sacrificial victim. The "Glorification of the Chosen One" is brief and violent; in the "Evocation of the Ancestors" that follows, short phrases are interspersed with drum rolls. The "Ritual Action of the Ancestors" begins quietly, but slowly builds to a series of climaxes before subsiding suddenly into the quiet phrases that began the episode.[122]
Appalachian Spring For many years part of the seventh movement of the orchestral suite was used as the opening music to CBS Reports.[9]
Is It Fall Yet? The film chronicles the characters' summer break between seasons four and five.