mediant - 2025 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

Composers of film and video game music often modulate to keys with a “chromatic” form of this relationship to maintain musical interest. For 10 points each:

[10h] What Latin-derived term do music theorists use to refer to the third scale degree?

ANSWER: mediant [accept chromatic mediant; reject “submediant”]

[10m] In minor-key movements in sonata form, the key of the second theme should be rooted on the mediant, giving it this relationship to the key of the first. E-flat major is this type of key with respect to C minor.

ANSWER: relative major

[10e] Chromatic mediants are associated with a style of chromaticism popularized by this German romantic composer. An enigmatic half-diminished chord recurs throughout Tristan and Isolde, an opera by this composer of The Ring Cycle.

ANSWER: Richard Wagner [or Wilhelm Richard Wagner]

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	15.71	86%	57%	14%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	18.00	80%	20%	80%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	16.67	89%	56%	22%
Florida	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	11.11	78%	33%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	10.83	75%	25%	8%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	15.56	100%	44%	11%
North	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	11.67	83%	17%	17%
Pacific	Main	Y	9	16.67	78%	44%	44%
South Central	Main	Y	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
Southeast	Main	Y	13	10.77	69%	23%	15%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	16.25	88%	63%	13%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%

Data


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