Musical Interlude

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  That time of year — although, where I live, the peak has ended:

Program music for the above:

Allegro 

Celebrates the peasant, with songs and dances, 

The pleasure of a bountiful harvest. 

And fired up by Bacchus' liquor, 

many end their revelry in sleep. 

Adagio molto 

Everyone is made to forget their cares and to sing and dance 

By the air which is tempered with pleasure 

And (by) the season that invites so many, many 

Out of their sweetest slumber to fine enjoyment.

Allegro 

The hunters emerge at the new dawn, 

And with horns and dogs and guns depart upon their hunting 

The beast flees and they follow its trail; 

Terrified and tired of the great noise 

Of guns and dogs, the beast, wounded, threatens 

Languidly to flee, but harried, dies.