string octet - 2025 ACF Fall

Question

A prelude and a scherzo make up Dimitri Shostakovich’s Two Pieces for [this ensemble]. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this ensemble, the subject of a C major work by Georges Enescu. Felix Mendelssohn’s opus 20 is an E flat major work for this ensemble he wrote aged sixteen as a birthday present for his violin teacher Eduard Rietz.

ANSWER: string octet [accept double string quartet; accept Two Pieces for String Octet; prompt on octet; reject “string quartet”]

[10e] Whilst most string octets consist of four violins, two violas and two cellos, Max Bruch swapped out one of the cellos in his String Octet for this instrument, the lowest string instrument in a standard orchestra.

ANSWER: double bass [accept contrabass; accept upright bass; accept string bass; accept acoustic bass; reject “electric bass”]

[10m] A piece called Neiges (“nezh”) was written for eight cellos by Kaija Saariaho (“KAH-yah sah-ree-AH-hoh”), a composer from this country. Another composer from this country wrote a string quartet subtitled “Intimate Voices” and a D minor violin concerto whose final movement was dubbed “a polonaise for polar bears.”

ANSWER: Finland [or Suomi] (The other composer is Jean Sibelius.)

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	18.57	100%	57%	29%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	14.44	100%	44%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	11	14.55	91%	46%	9%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	16.67	100%	56%	11%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	17.78	100%	56%	22%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	11.11	100%	11%	0%
North	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Pacific	Main	Y	8	21.25	100%	88%	25%
South Central	Main	Y	6	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	15.00	100%	33%	17%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


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