Johann Sebastian Bach - 2024 ACF Fall

Question

As a teenager looking to show off, Paul McCartney learned this composer’s Bourrée in E minor, which he later adapted into The Beatles’ “Blackbird.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this German Baroque composer of The Well-Tempered Clavier. McCartney was inspired to include a piccolo trumpet solo on The Beatles’ “Penny Lane” by its use in this composer’s second Brandenburg Concerto.

ANSWER: Johann Sebastian Bach [or J.S. Bach]

[10m] The Beatles’ “Norwegian Wood” and “Tomorrow Never Knows” draw on Hindustani music through their use of the tampura and this other instrument, which George Harrison was taught by its virtuoso Ravi Shankar.

ANSWER: sitar

[10h] “Tomorrow Never Knows” is also notable for using this avant-garde composing technique, inspired by its use by Karlheinz Stockhausen. This technique’s two-word name refers to its use of recorded sounds as raw materials.

ANSWER: musique concrète [or concrete music; prompt on sound collage or sampling]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	17.78	78%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	7	17.14	71%	86%	14%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	20.00	88%	100%	13%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	6	21.67	83%	100%	33%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	10	20.00	100%	90%	10%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


UCLA C	Claremont C	10	0	0	10
UCLA B	Claremont A	10	10	0	20
UCSD	UCLA D	10	10	0	20
Claremont B	USC	10	10	0	20
RIT C	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	Binghamton C	10	10	0	20
Cornell D	Cornell A	10	10	0	20
RIT A	Cornell B	10	10	0	20
Cornell F	Penn State	0	10	0	10
Cornell G	ESF	10	10	0	20
Syracuse	U of Rochester A	10	10	0	20
RIT B	U of Rochester B	10	10	0	20
Columbia A	Bard A	10	10	0	20
Rutgers B	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Lehigh B	Columbia J	0	10	0	10
Lehigh A	Penn A	0	0	0	0
Maryland A	NYU B	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Rowan A	10	10	0	20
Penn B	Princeton A	10	10	0	20
Cornell E	Binghamton B	10	10	0	20
CWRU A	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
Arizona State B	Alberta	10	10	0	20
UW Gluttony	Boise State	10	10	0	20
UW Greed	UW Lust	10	10	10	30
UW Pride	UBC B	10	10	0	20
Arizona State A	UW Sloth	0	10	0	10
UW Wrath	UBC A	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt A	Alabama A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Auburn C	10	0	0	10
Emory A	Emory Oxford	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Furman	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Belmont	10	10	10	30
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech D	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech E	Mississippi State A	10	10	0	20
South Carolina B	Southern	10	10	0	20
Clemson B	Tennessee B	10	10	0	20
Auburn B	Vanderbilt B	10	10	0	20
VCU	Appalachian State B	10	10	0	20
Duke A	UNC B	10	10	0	20
James Madison B	UNC D	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech A	Liberty A	10	10	0	20
Liberty C	Tusculum	10	10	0	20
NC State	Virginia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Duke B	UNC A	10	10	0	20
UNC C	Appalachian State A	10	10	0	20
Virginia	William & Mary	10	10	0	20
CWRU C	CWRU B	10	10	0	20
West Virginia A	Miami C	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Ohio State C	10	10	0	20
Michigan D	Michigan A	10	10	10	30
Michigan State A	Jefferson County Scholars	10	10	0	20
Michigan State B	Ohio State B	10	10	0	20
Miami A	West Virginia B	10	10	0	20