Miserere mei, Deus - 2024 ACF Fall

Question

In a 2014 April Fools video, a performer in the choir of King’s College, Cambridge faked inhaling helium before singing this piece’s high C6. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this setting of Psalm 51 by Gregorio Allegri. After hearing this piece at a service, a fourteen-year old Mozart legendarily transcribed it from memory.

ANSWER: Miserere mei, Deus (“mee-zuh-RAIR-ray may DAY-us”)

[10e] The high C6 of the Miserere is often sung by boy sopranos whose vocal type is described by this word. A spiral-shaped clef used by high-pitched instruments like the violin is described by this word.

ANSWER: trebles [accept treble clef]

[10m] Allegri’s Miserere uses this technique characteristic of the Roman school that was legendarily unbanned due to Palestrina’s Pope Marcellus Mass. This technique uses more than one simultaneous melodic line.

ANSWER: polyphony [or word forms such as polyphonic]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Illinois	fall	Y	10	19.00	80%	80%	30%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	7	20.00	100%	71%	29%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	9	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	7	7.14	29%	43%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	12	13.33	58%	58%	17%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	8	13.75	75%	63%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Chicago A	Notre Dame A	0	10	0	10
Illinois C	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Illinois D	0	10	10	20
WashU A	Illinois B	10	10	10	30
Northwestern A	Iowa A	10	0	10	20
Northwestern B	Indiana	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame B	WashU B	0	10	0	10
Purdue B	Purdue A	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame C	Purdue C	0	10	10	20
Iowa B	SIUE	0	0	10	10
Bard A	Rowan A	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Rutgers A	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	Lehigh A	0	10	10	20
Lehigh B	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Columbia J	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Penn B	10	10	10	30
Princeton A	Rutgers B	0	10	10	20
CWRU C	Michigan State B	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Michigan State A	0	10	10	20
Jefferson County Scholars	Michigan D	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
Ohio State C	West Virginia A	0	10	0	10
Miami C	West Virginia B	0	0	0	0
Miami A	CWRU A	0	10	10	20
CWRU B	Miami B	0	0	0	0
Alberta	UW Chastity	0	0	10	10
Arizona State B	Arizona State A	0	10	10	20
Georgia A	Alabama A	0	0	0	0
Auburn B	Clemson B	0	10	0	10
Auburn C	Belmont	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt A	Emory A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Furman	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech E	Auburn A	0	10	10	20
Mississippi State A	Emory Oxford	0	10	10	20
South Carolina A	Tennessee A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	South Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Southern	Tennessee B	0	0	0	0
Clemson A	Vanderbilt B	0	10	10	20
UBC A	UBC B	0	0	0	0
UW Gluttony	UW Greed	0	10	10	20
UW Lust	UW Envy	0	0	0	0
UW Pride	UW Wrath	0	0	0	0
UW Sloth	Boise State	0	0	0	0
James Madison B	Duke A	0	10	0	10
Tusculum	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
Liberty C	Duke B	0	10	10	20
NC State	William & Mary	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	UNC A	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	UNC C	0	10	10	20
Virginia	UNC D	0	10	10	20
VCU	Virginia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Appalachian State A	UNC B	0	10	10	20