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 Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 78% | 100% | 0% |
| 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 | 11 | 20.00 | 91% | 91% | 18% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 75% | 88% | 13% |
Data
| 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 |
| RIT C | Binghamton A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell E | Binghamton B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell C | Binghamton C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| CWRU A (UG) | Michigan C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| CWRU C (UG) | CWRU B (DII) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| West Virginia A (UG) | Miami C (DII) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan B (UG) | Ohio State C (DII) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan D (UG) | Michigan A (UG) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Michigan State A | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan State B | Ohio State B (DII) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Miami A (UG) | West Virginia B (UG) | 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 |
| 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 |
| UCLA C | Claremont C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UCLA E | UCLA A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UCLA B | Claremont A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UCSD | UCLA D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont B | USC | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia A (UG) | Bard A (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Lehigh B (DII) | Columbia J (DII) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland B (DII) | Fordham A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Lehigh A (UG) | Penn A (DII) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Maryland A (DII) | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| NYU A (UG) | Rowan A (DII) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn B (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Tennessee A | Georgia Tech D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Missisippi State | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 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 |