Tags: Classical Music Composition.
Dance of the Goat is a piece for solo flute by Arthur Honegger written in 1921 as incidental music for dancer Lysana of Sacha Derek’s play La mauvaise pensée. At the start of the piece there is a slow dreamlike introduction consisting of tritone phrases. This soon unwinds into the “goat-like” theme in a chromatically altered F major in 9/8 that skips along providing the clear picture of a dancing goat. Following this theme is a more melodic theme or idea that gives off a more calming feeling.
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