Question
Charles Rosen memorably described a composition of this type that forms part of a lengthy collection of keyboard music as “the most significant piano work of the millennium.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Baroque type of composition with an Italianate name, whose most famous examples “a 3” and “a 6” are both based on the chromatic “Thema Regium.”
ANSWER: ricercar (“ree-chur-CAR”) [or ricercare; accept Ricercar a 3 or Ricercar a 6 or with “ricercare” in place of “ricercar”]
[10e] The “Thema Regium” which forms the basis for J. S. Bach’s The Musical Offering was composed by this Enlightened Prussian king who employed Bach’s son Carl Philip Emannuel.
ANSWER: Frederick the Great [accept Frederick II; accept Friedrich der Große or Friedrich II; prompt on Frederick or Friedrich]
[10m] The Musical Offering includes a trio sonata featuring this instrument because Frederick the Great was a talented player of it. Johann Joachim Quantz wrote a major treatise on playing this instrument.
ANSWER: flute [or Flöte; accept On Playing the Flute; accept Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiere zu spielen]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 26.67 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 10 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 100% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 80% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Berkeley B | Berkeley C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Stanford C | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Stanford B | Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Binghamton | RIT A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cornell A | Cornell C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| RIT B | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| GWU A (UG) | William & Mary A (UG) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke A (UG) | GWU B (Grad) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| JMU A (UG) | JMU B (UG) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Liberty B (DII) | Maryland C (DII) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Liberty C (DII) | Roanoke College A (DII) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland A (Grad) | UNC A (Grad) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland B (UG) | Virginia B (UG) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UNC B (UG) | UNC C (UG) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia A (UG) | Liberty A (Grad) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UNC D (DII) | Virginia C (UG) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Arizona State | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota C | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan B | Ohio State A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Michigan C | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State B | Cedarville | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Haverford | Vassar | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins | Rowan | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Bristol | Warwick | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge A | Imperial A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Kiel | Cambridge C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Durham B | Sheffield | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Oxford B | Edinburgh | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cambridge B | KCL | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Oxford A | Imperial B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford C | Durham A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Geodesic | Harding | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Tennessee | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Alabama | Kentucky | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Carolina | MTSU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | Vanderbilt B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Dartmouth A | Brandeis A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |