Question

Glenn Gould ended his TV program “Music in Our Time - Part 2: The Flight from Order” with his solo transcription of an orchestral piece in this genre, which the composer himself transcribed thrice for (10[1])piano duo, piano four-hands, and solo piano. After a falling out over his refusal to choreograph that piece in this genre, (10[1])Sergei Diaghilev (“dee-AHG-uh-leff”) challenged its composer to a duel. That composer wrote an eight-movement set of these pieces that opens with three A add9 chords over a G-D pedal. That set of pieces in this genre pays homage to an earlier composer’s D. 779 and 969 by adopting (-5[1])their adjectives. Two Schubert collections (10[1])inspired that (10[1])set of these (10[2])pieces by Maurice (10[1])Ravel, (10[1])who wrote (10[1])a poème (10[2]-5[1])chorégraphique titled for this genre. (-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])Ravel wrote “noble” and “sentimental” (10[3])examples (10[3])of (-5[1])what dance, (-5[1])whose Viennese form he parodied? (10[1])■END■ (10[5]0[1])

ANSWER: waltz [or valse; accept La valse or Valses nobles et sentimentales; prompt on poème chorégraphique or choreographic poem]
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Summary

2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y24100%0%21%121.00

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Chris SimsNorthwesternChicago A3410
Justin WytmarIllinois AStanford5510
Micah ColmanWaterloo BYale102-5
Sinecio MoralesJohns HopkinsToronto C10710
Aum MundheRutgersToronto A10910
Richard NiuCornell AToronto B11210
Charles YoungColumbia AWaterloo A11210
Jeremy CummingsWUSTL AUC Berkeley A11510
Karan GurazadaTexasIowa State11610
Owen MimnoNYUUC Berkeley B11810
John John GrogerWUSTL BGeorgia State12010
John ChenBritish ColumbiaOttawa120-5
Teigue KellyPenn StateArizona State12010
Jeffrey XuGeorgia TechChicago B125-5
Emily BussaMarylandWinona State12810
Arjun KalaIllinois BVanderbilt13310
Joseph ChambersVirginiaNorth Carolina B13310
Shardul RaoMinnesotaVirginia Tech13310
Adrian WongOttawaBritish Columbia13410
Jim FanNorth Carolina AIndiana13410
Yrwin BatanMITHarvard13410
Cormac BeirneLSEFlorida135-5
William GrogerColumbia BCornell B137-5
Alan XieYaleWaterloo B14210
Kevin PengCornell BColumbia B14310
Cade ReinbergerRITOhio State14310
Shourjo GanguliOhio StateRIT1430
Alvin GuoChicago BGeorgia Tech14310
Todd MaslykMichiganUCF14310
Tiffany ZhouFloridaLSE14310