Milhaud Le boeuf sur le toit, Op. 58 (with score)

Or The Ox on the Roof: The NothingDoing Bar, 1920 ballet to a scenario by Jean Cocteau. Score of the piano duet transcription by the composer. Ulster Orchestra YanPascal Tortelier Milhaud s score is strongly influenced by Brazilian popular musicin fact, it quotes nearly 30 Brazilian melodies and is infused with Latin rhythms and noisy, choroslike orchestrations throughout. Milhaud had spent two years in Brazil as a cultural attaché. The piece cycles through tonalities rooted in all twelve pitches, in an ascending pattern according to the three possible diminished seventh chords: C Eb F, ,Gb A Db E, Fb G Bb D F G, ,Ab B before returning at last to the original tonic of C.