D-flat major while for the return of the second theme in the first movement. Claude Debussy also switches from D-flat major to C-sharp minor in the significant section in his famous "Clair de lune". Antonín Dvořák's "New World Symphony" likewise switches to C-sharp minor for a while for the significant section in the slow movement. D-flat major is enharmonic to C-sharp major. In music for the harp, D-flat major would be preferable, not only because harp strings are more resonant in the flat position and the key has fewer accidentals, but also because modulation to the dominant key is easier (by putting
Autour de la Lune and slow rate of change. The bulk of this work was originally commissioned and broadcast in September 2003 by Radio France Culture for a musical evocation of Jules Verne. As a book, "Autour de la Lune" (1870, "Around the Moon") was Jules Verne's sequel to his "De la Terre à la Lune" (1865, "From the Earth to the Moon"). The first one dealt with the Earth part of the story until the ship's launching, from the outside. "Autour de la Lune" dealt from the inside of the ship with the launching and the actual space travel to and around the