The motif (read slowly) “B-flat, long E-flat, short D, B-flat” represents one of these locations whose destruction is represented by a descending passage leading into the second movement of an orchestral piece. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these locations, one of which titles an opera whose minor second motif represents blood as a character opens a series of doors.
ANSWER: castles [accept Duke Bluebeard’s Castle; accept hrad or Vyšehrad] (The opera is Duke Bluebeard’s Castle.)
[10m] The castle of Vyšehrad (“vee-ZHER-ahd”) and Vltava river are depicted in this Czech composer’s collection Ma vlast. He composed the opera The Bartered Bride.
ANSWER: Bedřich Smetana
[10e] Smetana’s From My Life uses assonant high E’s to represent this condition. Carolina Unger apocryphally had to turn Beethoven around after he conducted his Ninth Symphony because he had recently developed this condition.
ANSWER: deafness [accept word forms such as being deaf; accept tinnitus; accept hearing loss or word forms such as the loss of hearing]
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