Henry Cowell - 2023 BHSU - Buzzpoints App

Question

Answer the following about the modernist composers known as the “American Five,” for 10 points each.

[10m] This member of the Five employed the “tone cluster” in The Tides of Manaunaun. This composer explored “extended piano” techniques, such as plucking the strings directly, in pieces like The Aeolian Harp.

ANSWER: Henry (Dixon) Cowell

[10h] Another prominent member of the “American Five,” Carl Ruggles, is best known for this dissonant, orchestral tone poem titled for a line from Robert Browning’s “Pauline.”

ANSWER: Sun-Treader

[10e] The most noted member of the Five was this associate of Cowell and Ruggles, who himself made use of “tone clusters” in his Concord Sonata.

ANSWER: Charles (Edward) Ives

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Summary


2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
2023 BHSU Online	04/15/2023	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	Dr. Christopher Manners, MD – Samarra, Iraq	0	0	10	10
What is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU	Houston and friends	0	0	10	10
The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B	Hutto Hippos	10	0	10	20
Broken Imperial Nomads	Magisters Ludi	10	0	10	20
Oxford Hornets	Buzzers Karamazov	0	0	10	10
Fan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them	Maryland A	0	0	10	10
Rutgers Diaspora	Maryland B+	0	0	10	10
The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs	Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery	10	0	10	20
Illinois	Amartya Senpai Notice Me	10	0	10	20
Mojo Shojo	Brownstein et al.	10	10	10	30
Chicago A	OSU	10	0	10	20
WUSTL	Michigan	0	0	10	10
Epic Games	Northwestern	0	0	10	10
Chicago B+	Purdue University Fightin' Hadrien Davids	0	0	10	10
Cornell B-	Cornell C++	10	0	10	20
[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]	Berkeley A	10	0	10	20
Stanford A	It's Joever	10	10	10	30
Berkeley B	Stanford B	0	0	10	10
Parth et al.	Cameron et al.	0	0	10	10
Milan et al.	Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style	10	0	10	20
The Vulture's Guide to Buzz	The Passion According to C.H.	0	0	0	0
UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	Columbia B	10	0	10	20
meet the new weird, same as the old weird	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	0	0	10	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	10	0	10	20