Florence Price - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

Answer the following about symphonies written in the key of E minor. For 10 points each:

[10h] This composer’s E minor first symphony was premiered in 1933 and was the first symphony by a Black woman to be performed by a major American orchestra. This composer used a juba dance in all three of her surviving symphonies.

ANSWER: Florence Price [or Florence Beatrice Price; accept Florence Smith; prompt on Smith]

[10e] Price’s inclusion of spirituals in her symphonies drew on this Czech composer’s ninth symphony, subtitled “From the New World”, which features a notable cor anglais solo in its second movement.

ANSWER: Antonín Dvořák (“duh-VORE-zhak”) [or Antonín Leopold Dvořák]

[10m] Brahms’ fourth and Tchaikovsky’s fifth symphonies, both also E minor, feature a notable moment for this instrument in their second movements. This brass instrument is typically pitched in F.

ANSWER: French horn [reject “English horn”]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	17.14	86%	71%	14%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	18.89	100%	78%	11%
Florida	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	15.83	83%	50%	25%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	14.44	89%	44%	11%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	10	12.00	80%	30%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	21.11	89%	89%	33%
North	Main	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
Northeast	Main	Y	11	12.73	73%	46%	9%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	18.75	88%	75%	25%
South Central	Main	Y	7	8.57	57%	29%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	13	13.08	77%	54%	0%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	18.00	80%	60%	40%
UK (South)	UK	Y	7	14.29	71%	71%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	12.00	60%	60%	0%

Data


Berkeley Archer Queen	Berkeley Mighty Miner	0	10	10	20
Stanford B	Berkeley Boss Bandit	0	10	10	20
Berkeley Little Prince	Berkeley Skeleton King	10	10	10	30
UCSC	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
UC Irvine	Claremont C	0	10	10	20
UC Santa Barbara	UCLA C	10	10	0	20
UCLA A	USC B	0	10	10	20
Claremont B	UCLA B	0	10	10	20
UCLA D	Claremont A	0	10	0	10
UCSD B	UCSD A	0	10	10	20
UCLA E	USC A	0	0	10	10
Carleton A	McGill E	0	10	0	10
McGill A	McGill C	0	10	10	20
McGill B	Ottawa D	0	10	10	20
Ottawa B	Ottawa A	0	10	10	20
Carleton B	Ottawa C	0	10	10	20
Queen's A	Brock A	0	10	0	10
Guelph A	Toronto E	0	10	0	10
Toronto F	McMaster C	0	10	10	20
Waterloo A	Toronto A	0	10	10	20
Toronto B	Toronto C	10	10	10	30
McMaster A	Toronto D	0	10	10	20
Toronto I	Toronto H	0	10	10	20
Waterloo B	Toronto G	0	10	10	20
McMaster B	Waterloo C	0	10	10	20
Florida Tech A	Florida B	0	10	10	20
Florida State A	ERAU Daytona A	0	10	10	20
Florida Tech B	South Florida A	0	10	0	10
UCF A	Florida A	0	10	0	10
CWRU A	CWRU B	10	10	0	20
Pittsburgh	Kentucky	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Louisville B	10	10	10	30
Michigan State D	Louisville C	0	0	0	0
Michigan B	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Michigan C	CWRU D	0	10	0	10
CWRU C	Michigan D	0	10	10	20
Michigan State A	Louisville A	10	10	10	30
Michigan State B	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
Ohio State C	Louisville D	0	10	10	20
Ohio State D	Michigan State C	0	10	0	10
WVU A	WVU B	0	0	0	0
NCSU A	William & Mary A	10	10	10	30
Liberty B	NCSU B	0	10	0	10
Tusculum A	Liberty C	0	0	0	0
UNC A	Virginia Tech A	0	10	10	20
UNC C	UNC B	0	10	0	10
Rutgers B	Lehigh A	0	10	10	20
Maryland B	George Mason A	0	10	0	10
George Mason C	Columbia B	0	0	0	0
George Mason B	Johns Hopkins	0	10	0	10
NYU B	Lehigh B	0	10	10	20
Rutgers A	Maryland A	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Maryland C	10	10	10	30
Princeton	Columbia A	0	10	0	10
Rowan	Vassar B	0	10	0	10
NYU C	Rutgers C	0	0	10	10
Rutgers D	Penn	0	10	0	10
Vassar A	Stony Brook	0	10	0	10
WashU Grizzlers	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Purdue A	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Illinois Champaign	Iowa B	0	10	10	20
Illinois Orange	Indiana B	0	10	10	20
Purdue B	Illinois Canada	0	10	10	20
Purdue C	Iowa A	0	0	10	10
Rose-Hulman A	Purdue D	0	10	0	10
Indiana A	WashU Grolars	0	10	10	20
William Woods University A	Illinois Blue	10	10	10	30
Wisconsin B	Minnesota	0	10	10	20
St. Thomas	Macalester	0	10	10	20
Wisconsin A	Iowa State	10	10	10	30
Michigan Tech	Wisconsin C	0	10	10	20
UNC D	Virginia Tech C	0	10	0	10
William & Mary B	JMU A	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	William & Mary C	0	10	10	20
Boston University B	Amherst B	0	0	0	0
Brandeis Mozart	Boston College A	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth A	Brown A	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Brown B	0	10	10	20
Harvard	Brandeis Beethoven	0	0	0	0
Amherst A	Tufts A	0	0	10	10
Tufts B	Vermont A	0	10	10	20
Boston University A	UConn A	0	10	0	10
Vermont B	Williams A	0	10	10	20
Dartmouth B	Williams B	0	10	10	20
Dartmouth C	Williams C	0	10	0	10
Alberta A	Washington Atlantic	0	10	10	20
Washington Chum	Alberta B	0	10	10	20
Arizona State A	Washington Sockeye	10	10	10	30
British Columbia B	Texas	0	10	10	20
British Columbia C	Washington State	0	10	0	10
Washington Steelhead	Washington Chinook	10	10	10	30
Washington Coho	British Columbia A	0	0	0	0
Washington Masu	Washington Pink	0	10	10	20
Central Oklahoma B	Tulsa B	0	0	10	10
Kansas State A	Kansas State B	0	0	0	0
Murray State College A	Murray State College B	0	10	10	20
Nebraska B	Nebraska A	0	0	0	0
Nebraska C	Oklahoma	0	10	0	10
Rose State	Harding	0	10	0	10
Central Oklahoma A	Tulsa A	0	10	0	10
Alabama A	Vanderbilt A	0	10	10	20
Auburn A	Tennessee Tech	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt C	Auburn C	0	10	0	10
Chipola College	Clemson A	0	10	10	20
Montevallo	Clemson B	0	10	0	10
Sewanne	Clemson C	0	0	0	0
Georgia A	Emory A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Auburn B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech F	Georgia Tech E	0	0	0	0
Vanderbilt B	Mississippi State A	0	0	0	0
South Carolina A	Tennessee A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee B	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech B	Virginia A	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh B	Durham B	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh D	Durham D	0	10	0	10
Durham A	Edinburgh C	10	10	10	30
Edinburgh A	Sheffield A	0	0	0	0
Sheffield B	Durham C	10	10	10	30
Cambridge A	Southampton	0	10	10	20
Cambridge E	Cambridge C	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Cambridge D	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Birmingham	0	10	10	20
Bristol	Imperial C	0	10	10	20
Warwick	LSE	0	0	0	0
Imperial D	Oxford	0	10	10	20
Rochester	Binghamton C	0	10	10	20
Cornell D	Cornell A	0	10	0	10
Binghamton B	Cornell C	0	0	0	0
RIT A	ESF	0	10	10	20
Binghamton A	RIT B	0	0	10	10