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
[Insert Lawyer Joke Here] | Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
Stanford A | It's Joever | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Fan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them | Maryland A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Rutgers Diaspora | Maryland B+ | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Berkeley B | Stanford 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 |
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 |
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 |