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Question

This piece opens with a crescendoing minor chord whose outer voices move in a half step to a sforzando dominant seventh. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this orchestral piece whose slow final section is sometimes performed with a choir after being reworked by its composer into a hymn.

ANSWER: Finlandia [or Jean Sibelius’s Op. 26]

[10e] In another Sibelius tone poem, the English horn represents one of these animals “of Tuonela.” In a movement of Saint-Saens’s Carnival of the Animals, a lyrical cello solo and piano arpeggios depict one of these animals gliding over water.

ANSWER: swans [accept Le cygne]

[10m] An early Sibelius tone poem is titled for a “Song” of this time period. A “mood picture” by Fredrick Delius is titled On Hearing the First Cuckoo in [this time period].

ANSWER: spring

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Summary


2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	15.00	75%	50%	25%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	9	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	6	20.00	100%	83%	17%

Data


Michigan C	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Pittsburgh	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Ohio State C	10	10	0	20
Caltech	UCSB	0	10	0	10
Claremont A	Art of Premature Signaling	10	10	10	30
girl 15 whale i mean they	Claremont B	0	10	0	10
P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B	UCLA A	0	10	10	20
UCLA B	UCSD	0	10	10	20
Too much from you lately	Billy's Bastion	0	10	10	20
Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again	Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses	0	10	0	10
Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison	Keeping Up With the Cardassians	0	10	0	10
Lexington	BU	0	10	10	20
MIT	Brown	10	10	0	20
Harvard	Belmont	0	10	10	20
Brandeis	RIT	0	0	0	0
George Mason B	Catholic University of America	0	10	0	10
Rutgers	George Mason A	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	George Mason C	0	10	0	10
NYU A	CWRU	0	10	10	20
Haverford A	NYU C	0	10	0	10
Alberta	South Dakota School of Mines	0	10	10	20
Arizona State University A	UW B	0	10	10	20
Carleton	UW A	0	10	0	10
Arizona State University B	Washington Connections	0	10	10	20
Quatumvirate	Four Generalists in Search of a Power	0	10	10	20
Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team	Free Agents 1	0	10	10	20
mongeese	Goober Gang	0	10	0	10
Gruh	Illinois Orange	0	10	10	20
MSJ	Notre Dame + Epic Games	0	10	0	10
Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion	Mahjonng Masters	0	10	10	20
Egypt Airlines Haters	Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky	0	10	0	10
evil women enjoyers	Auburn 2026	0	10	10	20
we need new names	2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles	0	10	10	20
Manchester	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh	Sheffield C	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Warwick B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge	Lancaster	0	10	10	20
Sheffield A	Birmingham	0	10	10	20
LSE	Sheffield B	0	10	0	10
Waterloo B	Guelph	0	10	0	10
McGill A	Mac A	0	10	0	10
Ottawa A	Simon Fraser	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Waterloo C	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Toronto E	0	10	10	20
Toronto C	UBC	10	10	10	30
Toronto D	Toronto Metropolitan	0	10	0	10
Waterloo A	McGill B	0	10	10	20
4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina	Somehow Paula Deen Returned	0	10	0	10
Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race	Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65	0	10	10	20
Master and Margaritaville	Even in Blacksburg There I Am	10	10	0	20
Illinois A	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Chicago B	SIUE	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Missouri	0	10	10	20
Truman State	WashU Charmander	0	10	10	20
Illinois B	WashU Bulbasaur	0	10	10	20
Illinois C	WashU Squirtle	0	10	0	10
Ohio State D	Michigan B	0	10	0	10