This G-minor piece inspired the ninth work in Anton Reicha’s (“RYE-kuh’s”) Opus 36, which consists of 36 pieces in the same genre. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this keyboard piece that opens with the ascending dotted quarter notes G, B-flat, E-flat, F-sharp.
ANSWER: “Cat Fugue” [or “Cat’s Fugue”; or Fuga del gatto; or Katzenfuge; accept K. 30 or L. 499; prompt on Fugue in G minor by asking “what is its common nickname?”]
[10e] The “Cat Fugue” is one of Domenico Scarlatti’s 555 sonatas for this keyboard instrument, for which J. S. Bach composed The Well-Tempered Clavier.
ANSWER: harpsichord
[10m] The subject for the “Cat Fugue” was supposedly plonked out by a cat named for this commedia dell’arte character. Stravinsky’s Suite italienne is based on his ballet with this name, which adapts 18th-century Italian music by composers such as Domenico Gallo.
ANSWER: Pulcinella
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