Night on Bald Mountain specifically by Herbert Stothart, who provided most of the underscoring for the film. A humorous adaptation of "Night on Bald Mountain" for brass band and kazoo was recorded by the Roto Rooter Good Time Christmas Band, and appears on the album "Retro Rooter". [[Category:Compositions by Modest Mussorgsky]] [[Category:Symphonic poems]] [[Category:Adaptations of works by Nikolai Gogol]] [[Category:1867 compositions]] [[Category:1886 compositions]] [[Category:Segments from Fantasia]] [[Category:Music based on European myths and legends]] [[Category:The Devil in fiction]] [[Category:The Devil in classical music]] Night on Bald Mountain Night on Bald Mountain (), also known as Night on the Bare Mountain, is a series of compositions
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 "so perfect a poem" as this sonnet in response to an objection from a lady that London could not both be "bare" and "clothed" (an example of the use of paradox in literature). That the sonnet so closely follows Dorothy's journal entry comes as no surprise because Dorothy wrote her "Grasmere Journal" to "give Wm pleasure by it" and it was freely available to Wordsworth, who said of Dorothy that "She gave me eyes, she gave me ears" in his poem "The Sparrow's Nest". Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" is a