Question
This composer used an arch form in his String Quartet No. 5 and included a (4 + 3 + 2)/8 (“four plus three plus two eight”) time signature commonly used in Bulgarian folk music in its scherzo. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this composer, who had two bassoons enter playing a minor sixth apart to begin the “Game of Pairs” movement of a concerto.
ANSWER: Béla Bartók [or Béla Viktor János Bartók; or Bartók Béla Viktor János] (The concerto is Concerto for Orchestra.)
[10e] Bartók instructed the players to use his namesake “snap” form of this technique in his fourth string quartet. This technique involves players plucking the string.
ANSWER: pizzicato (“PITS-ee-CAH-toe”)
[10h] The xylophone plays a rhythm following the Fibonacci sequence to open the third movement of a Bartók piece written for an ensemble that includes this keyboard instrument. This instrument also plays the opening melody (read slowly) “G, E, G, (pause) F-sharp, (pause) D-sharp, (pause) E” in another piece.
ANSWER: celesta [or celeste; or bell-piano]
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Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 35 | 18.29 | 94% | 63% | 26% |
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| Norman | Barrington B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Belmont | Canyon Crest | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chattahoochee A | West Point | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chattahoochee B | Detroit Catholic Central C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Choate Rosemary Hall | Kinkaid | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
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| Dallas County | Johns Creek B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Detroit Catholic Central A | Belvidere | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Detroit Country Day | Parkway West | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| William Fremd | Hunter B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Irvington A | Hunter A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Norris | John Adams A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| John Adams B | Detroit Catholic Central B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Winnebago | Johns Creek A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Solon | Maggie Walker B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Maggie Walker C | Carl Sandburg | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stevenson B | Mercer County | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
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| Maggie Walker A | Rockford Auburn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
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| Hinsdale Central | Waukee | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
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