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In this piece’s romantic third movement, the clarinet and flute play rising and falling 26- and 32-note tuplets. (20[1])This piece opens with the low brass (20[1])playing a stern fortissimo theme starting with the notes “E, down to B, D” (20[1])that is later tamed by the other main theme. (20[1])Cellos play wide arpeggios to emulate rocking waves in this piece’s last movement, which depicts a festival and (*) shipwreck. The (10[1])harp accompanies a sinuous, triplet-based, high violin solo in a theme (10[1])representing this piece’s (10[1])title character. For 10 points, “The Young Prince and the Young Princess” and “The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship” (10[5])are movements (10[1])of, (10[6])what (10[1])symphonic suite (10[1])by Nikolai (10[1])Rimsky-Korsakov titled for the narrator of the Arabian Nights? (10[3])■END■ (10[10])

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