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
Le voyage dans la lune (operetta) 31. Clair de terre (finale): 'Terre! Terre!' (Chorus.) Extracts are available on : Le voyage dans la lune (operetta) Le voyage dans la Lune ("A Trip to the Moon") is an "opéra-féerie" in four acts and 23 scenes by Jacques Offenbach. Loosely based on the novel "From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne, its French libretto was by Albert Vanloo, Eugène Leterrier and Arnold Mortier. It premiered on 26 October 1875 at the Théâtre de la Gaîté. The production was revived at the Théâtre du Châtelet, on 31 March 1877. The idea for the work was presented to