An E-major showpiece that hybridizes this genre with a dance genre repeatedly calls for the soloist to leap from C-sharp 5 to high harmonics played on the A string. This is the second genre mentioned in the hybrid genre of the ten pieces in L’École moderne by Henryk Wieniawski (“VEE-yen-YAFF-skee”), whose Opus 1 is titled Grande [one of these pieces] fantastique. A collection of these pieces is the Opus 22 of Pierre Rode. An E-major piece in this genre, which has instructions for the player to imitate flutes and horns by using double stops, is nicknamed “The Hunt” and appears in a collection alongside “The Devil’s Laughter.” The theme from a piece in this genre in A minor is inverted in the 18th variation of a piece for piano and orchestra. For 10 points, Rachmaninoff wrote a rhapsody based on Paganini’s 24th piece in what genre? ■END■
ANSWER: caprices [or capriccios; accept 24 Caprices]
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