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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