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Ravel, Maurice : Gaspard de la nuit　"Le gibet" es-moll

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Music ID : 23484
Instrumentation：Piano Solo　
Genre：pieces
Total Playing Time：6 min 30 sec
Copyright：Public Domain

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Author : PTNA Piano Encyclopedia Editorial Department

Last Updated: September 1, 2020
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

2. The Gibbet / "Le gibet"

A bell's toll, seemingly announcing the death of a hanged man, is consistently struck on a B-flat note throughout. As night falls, mingling with the sound of the bell, one hears the wind, the wailing of the dead, or perhaps a scarab beetle tearing at blood-soaked hair from a skull... This eerie nocturnal world, a world of death, is realistically depicted with a keen sense of harmony and rhythm.

Writer: PTNA Piano Encyclopedia Editorial Department

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