. Programme. uder and louder waxes the com-plaint, and the oboe, the coquettishly ironical voice of Omphale,answers in mockery. The hero realizes the vanity of his chief theme reappears in a still more lightsome form; the musicgrows fainter; the figure of the spinning-wheel dies out in the top-most notes of flutes and the harmonics of violins. The symphonic poem is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes,two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trom-bones, kettledrums, cymbal (struck with a bass-drum stick),triangle, bass drum (with kettledrum stick), harp, s
. Programme. uder and louder waxes the com-plaint, and the oboe, the coquettishly ironical voice of Omphale,answers in mockery. The hero realizes the vanity of his chief theme reappears in a still more lightsome form; the musicgrows fainter; the figure of the spinning-wheel dies out in the top-most notes of flutes and the harmonics of violins. The symphonic poem is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes,two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trom-bones, kettledrums, cymbal (struck with a bass-drum stick),triangle, bass drum (with kettledrum stick), harp, strings. Thescore is dedicated to Mile. Augusta Holmes. Omphale was one of the noblest dames of antiquity. She wasthe daughter of the Lydian king, Jardanus, or Jardanes. Her hus-band was Tmolus, the god of a mountain and the father of Tantalus,and it was he that decided the musical contest between Pan andApollo. After the death of her husband Omphale undertook the m INTRODUCTION LEAPS TO eUERLASTING FRIENDSHIP. Chocolates (TWO GRADES) ON SALe AT THE 6eTTE(? STORES
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