oratorio - 2024 ARGOS - Buzzpoints App

Question

Emilio de’ Cavalieri’s Portrayal of Soul and the Body is typically considered the first work in this genre. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this genre, whose latino and volgare types developed in the mid-17th century before merging into so-called “sacred opera.” The first English-language work in this genre is Esther.

ANSWER: oratorio

[10h] A Giacomo Carissimi oratorio with this name is regarded as a masterpiece of oratorio latino. The aria “Waft her, angels, through the skies” appears in a later oratorio with this name, written while its composer was going blind.

ANSWER: Jephte [or Jephtha]

[10e] The latter Jephtha was this composer’s last oratorio. This composer’s other oratorios include Israel in Egypt and Judas Maccabaeus.

ANSWER: Georg Frideric Handel

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Summary


2024 ARGOS @ Chicago	11/23/2024	Y	4	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College	12/14/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia	11/23/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster	11/17/2024	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford	02/22/2025	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis	03/22/2025	N	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARGOS Online	03/22/2025	N	3	13.33	67%	67%	0%

Data


WashU	BHSU Rebirth	10	0	10	20
Northeast by Northwestern	Clown Squad	0	0	10	10
Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?	Music to Help You Stop Smoking	10	10	10	30
BHSU ReFantazio	The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)	10	0	10	20
Cambridge	Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz	0	0	10	10
Cien Años de Quizboledad	Limp Franceskit	10	0	10	20
Walston et. al.	12 Litres of Green Tea	10	10	10	30
Cope is the thing with feathers	NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)	0	0	10	10
jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club	just one more half-dot bro	0	0	10	10
Simple Vibes	Defying Suavity	10	0	10	20
Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country	Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken	10	0	10	20
Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut	The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange	10	0	10	20
I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	10	0	10	20
as rational as the square root of two power bottoms	Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha	0	0	10	10
Cry of the Common Loon	Berkeley	0	0	10	10
Where are the ACF Nationals recordings?	Stanford+	0	0	10	10
A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs	number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku	0	0	10	10