Tristan and Iseult - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

This myth inspired a 10-movement orchestral piece featuring piano and ondes Martenot (“ond mart-NO”) whose four cyclic themes include the “statue,” “flower,” and “love” themes. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this myth that provides the basis for a trilogy that includes the Turangalîla-Symphonie. A Cornish knight names the dissonant opening chord of an opera titled for this myth by Richard Wagner.

ANSWER: Tristan and Iseult [or Tristan and Isolde; or Tristan und Isolde; or Tristram ok Isodd]

[10m] This composer of the symphonic suite L’Ascension included Harawi and the Turangalîla-Symphonie in his “Tristan trilogy.”

ANSWER: Olivier Messiaen (“mess-YAWN”) [or Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen]

[10h] Messiaen’s second wife Yvonne, who had this surname, played piano at the premiere of the Turangalîla-Symphonie. Her sister with this surname recorded the symphony six times as an exponent of the ondes Martenot (“ond mart-NO”).

ANSWER: Loriod (“lor-YO”) [accept Yvonne Loriod or Jeanne Loriod]

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California	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	8.33	67%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	6.67	50%	17%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	67%	83%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	67%	67%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	50%	50%	50%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	15.00	80%	60%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	7	18.57	71%	71%	43%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%

Data


UCLA	Claremont B	10	0	0	10
UC Berkeley A	UCSD	10	10	0	20
UC Berkeley B	Claremont A	10	10	0	20
Florida A	UCF C	10	0	0	10
Florida B	UCF B	0	0	0	0
Valencia A	Florida State A	10	0	0	10
Michigan D	Carnegie Mellon A	0	0	0	0
Carnegie Mellon B	Case Western A	0	0	0	0
Ohio State A	Kenyon	10	0	0	10
Michigan A	Case Western B	10	0	0	10
Michigan C	Michigan State	10	10	0	20
Ohio State B	Michigan B	10	0	0	10
William & Mary	Liberty A	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty C	10	0	0	10
UNC B	Duke	0	0	0	0
UNC D	South Carolina	0	0	0	0
Virginia A	Liberty B	10	10	0	20
Wake Forest	UNC C	0	0	0	0
Chicago A	WashU A	10	10	0	20
Chicago C	Chicago D	10	10	0	20
Illinois A	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
WashU B	Indiana B	10	10	0	20
Missoui S&T	Illinois C	0	0	0	0
Missouri	Illinois B	0	10	0	10
Winona State	Carleton	0	10	0	10
Minnesota B	Wisconsin A	10	0	0	10
Iowa State	Wisconsin B	10	10	10	30
Brandeis B	Dartmouth A	10	0	0	10
Harvard A	Brown A	10	10	0	20
MIT A	BU	10	10	0	20
Tufts A	Harvard B	10	0	0	10
Brandeis A	UMass Boston	0	0	0	0
Georgetown A	Georgetown B	10	0	0	10
Northwestern A	Iowa	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame A	Northwestern B	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame C	Notre Dame B	0	0	0	0
Purdue	Stanford B	0	10	0	10
TAMU	ASU	0	0	0	0
Texas A	Texas B	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech A	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Tennessee A	Vanderbilt A	0	0	0	0
Southampton A	Cambridge D	0	0	0	0
Manchester	Cambridge E	10	0	0	10
Cambridge A	Durham	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Imperial B	10	10	10	30
LSE	Bristol	10	0	0	10
Cambridge C	NYU C	10	10	0	20
Oxford B	Warwick A	10	0	0	10
Oxford C	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Sheffield	Cambridge B	10	10	0	20
Imperial A	Southampton B	10	10	0	20
Cornell B	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
George Washington B	George Washington A	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia B	10	10	10	30
Maryland B	Columbia C	0	0	0	0
Rutgers A	John Jay College	10	10	0	20
Penn A	Vassar A	10	10	10	30
NYU A	Yale A	10	10	0	20
RIT A	Binghamton A	10	0	0	10
Cornell C	ESF A	0	0	0	0
Cornell D	RIT B	10	0	0	10