Maurice Ravel - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Ricardo Viñes (“VEEN-yess”) is the dedicatee of the “Sad Birds” movement of a piano suite by this composer whose movements are each dedicated to a different member of Les Apaches (“lay zah-PAHSH”). For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this composer of Miroirs (“meer-WAHR”) who abandoned work on orchestrations of Isaac Albéniz’s Iberia suite to compose Boléro.

ANSWER: Maurice Ravel

[10h] The painter Paul Sordes (“sord”), who was called a “Ravel of the palette” by Les Apaches member Tristan Klingsor, was the dedicatee of this third movement of Ravel’s Miroirs. This movement is known for its lush arpeggios imitating sea currents.

ANSWER: “Une barque sur l’océan” (“oon bark soor lo-say-AWN”) [accept “A Boat on the Ocean”]

[10m] Viñes premiered Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit (“gas-PARR duh la NWEE”), whose third movement was written to be more difficult than this “Oriental Fantasy” for piano by Mily Balakirev.

ANSWER: Islamey [or Islamey: Oriental Fantasy]

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Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	83%	50%	17%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	17.00	100%	50%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	22.50	100%	63%	63%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%

Data


Florida B	UCF C	10	0	0	10
Florida State A	UCF B	10	0	0	10
Florida A	Valencia A	10	0	10	20
Kenyon	Carnegie Mellon B	10	0	0	10
Case Western A	Carnegie Mellon A	10	0	0	10
Michigan B	Michigan D	10	0	0	10
Michigan A	Michigan C	10	0	0	10
Michigan State	Ohio State A	10	0	0	10
Ohio State B	Case Western B	10	0	10	20
Duke	Liberty B	10	0	10	20
South Carolina	Liberty C	0	0	0	0
UNC B	Virginia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Virginia A	UNC C	10	10	10	30
Liberty A	UNC D	10	0	10	20
William & Mary	Wake Forest	10	0	0	10
Illinois A	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Chicago B	Missouri	10	0	0	10
Iowa State	Minnesota B	10	0	10	20
Winona State	Wisconsin A	10	0	0	10
Carleton	Wisconsin B	10	0	0	10
BU	Tufts A	10	0	0	10
Brandeis A	Harvard B	10	0	0	10
Brown A	Brandeis B	10	10	10	30
MIT A	Dartmouth A	10	0	10	20
Harvard A	UMass Boston	10	0	10	20
Georgetown A	Notre Dame A	10	0	0	10
Stanford B	Georgetown B	10	0	10	20
Northwestern A	Notre Dame B	10	10	10	30
Northwestern B	Notre Dame C	10	0	10	20
Purdue	Iowa	10	0	10	20
Alberta	UW A	10	0	0	10
UW B	UBC	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech A	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Alabama A	Vanderbilt A	10	0	0	10
Louisville A	Bruin A	10	0	10	20
Oxford A	Bristol	10	10	10	30
Cambridge A	Manchester	10	10	10	30
Cambridge B	Southampton A	10	0	10	20
Cambridge C	Southampton B	10	0	10	20
Cambridge D	Warwick B	10	0	0	10
Warwick A	Cambridge E	10	0	0	10
Durham	NYU C	10	0	0	10
Imperial B	Oxford C	10	0	0	10
Oxford B	Imperial A	10	0	0	10
Sheffield	LSE	10	0	10	20
Columbia B	Penn B	10	10	10	30
Cornell B	NYU B	10	10	10	30
Johns Hopkins A	George Washington A	10	10	10	30
Haverford A	Rutgers A	10	0	0	10
John Jay College	George Washington B	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	Maryland B	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Haverford B	10	10	10	30
Yale A	Columbia C	10	0	0	10
Binghamton A	ESF A	10	0	10	20
Cornell D	Cornell C	10	0	0	10
RIT A	RIT B	10	0	10	20