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
Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day five and nine, as well as the erasures before "sunshine" and "above" suggest that the poem was written hastily. One interpretation by Winidred Gerin says that in the poem "emotion and expression have achieved a fusion as felicitous as it is rare in Brontë's writing, is probably the best poem she ever wrote, though not the most characteristic". The poem is based upon an actual experience of Brontë's. A note stating "Composed in the Long-Plantation on a wild bright windy day", was written in Anne Brontë's hand at the bottom of the manuscript and the "Long-Plantation" was identified by Edward