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A metaphor about this animal titles a collection of songs that includes “Der Doppelgänger.” A movement titled for this animal begins with the descending notes (read (20[1])slowly) “G, (20[1])F-sharp, B” and “E, D, G.” One composer called seeing 16 of these animals “one of [his] (20[1])greatest experiences” and used a French horn “hymn” theme to represent them in the finale of his (*) fifth symphony. This animal titles the most (10[1])excerpted movement of a suite that quotes its composer’s Danse macabre in the movement “Fossils.” This title animal is portrayed by an English horn in the second tone poem of Sibelius’s Lemminkäinen Suite. A solo cello in the penultimate movement of Camille Saint-Saëns’s (“san-SAWN’s”) Carnival of the Animals portrays, for 10 points, what bird? ■END■

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