Question

The first of these pieces is a one-movement work whose opening melody begins with the rising pickups G, A, B-flat, leading to a long D. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these two works. The second includes variations on a theme from its composer’s tone poem The Rock and was composed on the occasion of another man’s 1893 death.
ANSWER: Trios élégiaques (“tree-OH’s ay-lay-ZHAHK”) [or Elegiac Trios; or Elegiac Piano Trios; accept Trio élégiaque; prompt on Sergei Rachmaninoff’s piano trios by asking “What are their titles?”]
[10e] Rachmaninoff’s second Trio élégiaque was written upon the death of this other Russian composer, whose sixth and final symphony, which is in B minor contains a “limping waltz” in 5/4 time.
ANSWER: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
[10m] Tchaikovsky included an elegy as the third movement of his piece in this windless genre, whose opening movement is marked “Pezzo in forma di Sonatina.” That work is often paired on CD with Dvořák’s E-major work in this genre, which contains both a waltz and a scherzo.
ANSWER: serenade for strings [or string serenade; or serenata; or Smyčcová serenáda]
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