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A piano piece in this genre begins with the dyads [read slowly] “short unison D to long D-E, short D-E to long D-F.” A G-flat major piece in this genre begins with an unaccompanied pentatonic melody marked “without rigor.” Another piece in this genre uses parallel fourths and fifths to depict church bells “in a sweetly sonorous fog.” Pieces in this genre include (*) “Footsteps in the Snow” and one based on a legend (10[1])about the lost city of Ys (10[1])(“eess”). A piece titled for this genre opens with a flute chromatically descending from C-sharp (10[1])to G. (10[1])Claude Debussy’s first book of these (10[1])pieces includes “The Sunken (10[1])Cathedral” and “The Girl with the Flaxen Hair.” For 10 points, Debussy wrote what kind of (10[2])piece “to the Afternoon of a Faun”? ■END■ (10[3])

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