A piece in this genre features a virtuosic xylophone solo in its “Seeker’s Scherzo” and was commisioned from Zhōu Tiān by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Richard Danielpour’s piece in this genre is subtitled “Zoroastrian Riddles.” A piece in this genre originally ended its fifth-movement, fugal finale with an abrupt descent into B-flat major, before a revised ending on a C major chord. Dotted-quarter note timpani strikes accompany contrapuntal melodies in the strings in a piece in this genre by Witold Lutosławski. A piece in this genre follows a “night music” elegy with a movement that simulates laughing in the trumpets after a quote from The Merry Widow. A side drum solo precedes a jaunty bassoon duet to open the second movement of a work of this type, which is titled “A Game of Pairs.” For 10 points, Béla Bartók most famously wrote what type of virtuosic orchestral work? ■END■
ANSWER: Concerto for Orchestra [or Concerto zenekarra; prompt on concerto]
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