Question

The movement “Reverie—Crystal Lattice” closes a piece for this type of ensemble by Augusta Read Thomas titled Resounding Earth. Dawn Upshaw and Gilbert Kalish collaborated with this type of ensemble for a piece that adapts hymns from The Sacred Harp about the River Jordan. That ensemble of this type, which collaborated with Caroline Shaw (-5[1])on the Grammy-winning (-5[1])2021 (-5[1])album Narrow Sea, is named (10[1])(“soh”). Carlos (10[1])Chávez called for a six-person ensemble (-5[1])of this type in his Toccata. Six sets of microtonal scales can be produced by an instrument called a “sixxen” (“SIX-zen”), which was invented for one of these ensembles (10[1])by Iannis (10[1])Xenakis (“zeh-NAH-kiss”) for his piece (10[1])Pléïades (10[1])(“play-YAHD”). 40 different instruments are played (10[1])by a 13-member (10[3])ensemble of this type in Edgard Varèse’s (10[1])(“vah-REZZ’s”) Ionisation. (10[1])For 10 points, name this kind of ensemble that may include bells and xylophones. (10[2])■END■ (10[6])

ANSWER: percussion ensemble [accept drum ensemble]
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= Average correct buzz position

Summary

2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y20100%0%20%115.50

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Charles YoungColumbia AWUSTL B53-5
Crow HeNorth Carolina BTexas56-5
Joy AnHarvardMaryland57-5
Justin WytmarIllinois AVirginia6310
Jeremy CummingsWUSTL AMIT6410
Jim FanNorth Carolina AWaterloo A70-5
Micah ColmanWaterloo BArizona State9810
Sinecio MoralesJohns HopkinsGeorgia State10010
Shardul RaoMinnesotaMichigan10410
Alan XieYaleCornell B10510
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltLSE11010
Richard NiuCornell AOttawa11310
Guy IndoranteIowa StateIndiana11310
Chris SimsNorthwesternStanford11310
Jason ZhangToronto CRIT12010
Sky LiToronto AGeorgia Tech12110
Karan GurazadaTexasNorth Carolina B13510
Raymond ChenToronto BWinona State13510
Arjun KalaIllinois BFlorida13610
Ethan SkolnickWUSTL BColumbia A13610
Teigue KellyPenn StateNYU13610
Jared HeWaterloo ANorth Carolina A13610
Andy YuMarylandHarvard13610
Roxanne TangOhio StateUCF13610