Question

This genre and the ricercar were among Claudio Merulo’s significant innovations to transition keyboard music away from imitation of vocal styles. A composer’s note at the end of a piece in this genre reads “not without toil (15[1])will you reach the end,” which was included in the second of two books of these non-partita pieces by Girolamo Frescobaldi. (15[1])A piece in this genre unusually scored for trumpets opens Monteverdi’s opera (*) L’Orfeo. (10[1])A mordent on A followed by a (10[1])descending D (10[1])minor scale (-5[1])opens an organ piece in this genre (10[1])that was arranged for orchestra (10[1])by (-5[1])Leopold Stokowski to open Disney’s Fantasia. (10[2])For 10 points, name this genre whose name derives from the Italian for “touch” (10[1])and is paired with a (10[1])fugue in a (10[1])famous (10[1])D minor (10[1])piece by Bach. (10[1])■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: toccata [prompt on Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BVW 565 until “fugue” is read]
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Raymond WangCornell RCornell MATLAB3615
Max BrodskyIllinois AIndiana5715
Jonathan HaimowitzAuxiliary CLUClaremont7010
Sky LiToronto Ray of Sun in the SkyWaterloo7710
Andrew ZengStanford ABerkeley A7910
Cameron JonesMissouri BSIUE81-5
Steven YuanBerkeley BBerkeley C8810
Maya KvaratskheliaNotre Dame APurdue A9310
Christopher JosephNotre Dame BVanderbilt94-5
James WangOttawa AOttawa B10010
Robert CondronChicago AChicago B10010
Gabe ForrestSquidward Community CollegeWUSTL H2O11410
Cade ReinbergerRITSyracuse+Rochester11910
Neal JoshiWUSTL XYZMissouri A12210
Aidan FeinVanderbiltNotre Dame B12310
Akshar GoyalIllinois BPurdue B12510
Giifti BentiSIUEMissouri B12810
Anastacia HealeyOttawa CMcDouble West-Carleton1290
Ian ChowMcDouble West-CarletonOttawa C1290