🗺️ In the Hall of the Mountain King

Tap Play the map and follow the stops. It lasts about 84 seconds. Tap any stop to start from there.

1. The trolls tiptoe. Shh, the trolls are tiptoeing, low and soft.
2. A troll peeks out. Listen, a new tune, a little higher.
3. More trolls wake up. The first tune is back, and it's getting faster!
4. The trolls stomp. Now it's loud, and even faster!
5. The big chase. Faster and faster, then bang, it stops!

For grown-ups: the composition is in the public domain (written 1875). Peabody’s band plays it from notes read out of a published score, simplified to one tune line with chords, and some stops are played by a different band so the change is easy to hear. Read from: https://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/GriegE/O46/Dans_l_antre_du_roi_de_la_montagne/Dans_l_antre_du_roi_de_la_montagne.ly (Mutopia 1888: Grieg's own piano version, University Society 1918), checked against its .mid. B minor down a whole step to A minor, and the opening tune an octave or two above the piano's low start (it begins below the range); top line only, the first tune and the second tune each read once and repeated; the last bars' grace-note stabs written as plain notes; tempos ours (the piano version speeds up only once); harmonised here from the left hand's held bass notes.