Question

The fast section of one of these pieces is dominated by a staccato sixteenth note melody, first played piano and then in frenzied octaves, which begins [read slowly] “F G A B-flat C B-flat A B-flat (15[1])C, (-5[1])C.” Franz Doppler orchestrated six of these pieces. These pieces often use a harmonic minor scale with a raised fourth, such as in a late one based on a march that also appears in (15[1])Berlioz’s (*) Damnation of Faust. Marc-André (10[1])Hamelin wrote a celebrated cadenza for the second of these pieces, which opens with a “gracenote C-sharp, C-sharp,” followed by “C-sharp–B, C-sharp–B.” (10[3])Tom plays the second (10[1])of these pieces in the Tom and Jerry episode The Cat Concerto. (10[1])These pieces are divided into slow lassan and fast friska sections. For 10 points, dances like the verbunkos and csárdás (“CHAR-dahsh”) inspired (-5[1])what set of 19 virtuosic (-5[1])piano pieces by Franz (10[1])Liszt? ■END■ (10[4]0[6])

ANSWER: Hungarian Rhapsodies [prompt on rhapsodies] (The scale is the Hungarian minor scale; the fifteenth Hungarian Rhapsody is based on the Rákóczi March.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Max BrodskyIllinois AChicago A3515
Andrew ZengStanford ABerkeley A36-5
Stan MelkumianPurdue AVanderbilt7015
Jonathan HaimowitzAuxiliary Lofthouse Cookie UniversitySGV Capital7510
Steven YuanBerkeley BBerkeley C9710
Maya KvaratskheliaNotre Dame AIndiana9710
Raymond WangCornell RCornell MATLAB9710
Sky LiTorontoMcDouble West-Carleton10110
Adrian WongOttawa AWaterloo11310
Akshar GoyalIllinois BNotre Dame B134-5
Neal JoshiWUSTL XYZWUSTL H2O139-5
Giifti BentiSIUESquidward Community College14310
Eve FleisigBerkeley AStanford A14510
Ian TheysmeyerOttawa COttawa B14510
Ishan JoshiOttawa BOttawa C1450
Michael DurrantNotre Dame BIllinois B1450
David NickelPurdue BChicago B1450
Ezra SantosChicago BPurdue B14510
Cade ReinbergerRITSyracuse+Rochester14510
Dede BinkhoelterMissouri BMissouri A1450
Amith PunyalaWUSTL H2OWUSTL XYZ1450
Braden BoothMissouri AMissouri B1450