xylophone - 2025 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

The “Fossils” movement of one work is scored for strings, two pianos, clarinet, and this instrument. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this percussion instrument that plays a motif beginning [read slowly] G, B flat, G, A, B flat, in another work to depict the rattling of bones. This instrument is a smaller relative of the marimba.

ANSWER: xylophone

[10e] The xylophone is employed in the aforementioned “Fossils” movement of this fourteen movement piece by Camille Saint-Saëns (“san-SON”). The only published movement from this piece before Saint-Saëns’s death is “The Swan.”

ANSWER: The Carnival of the Animals [or Le Carnaval des animaux]

[10h] The xylophone is used to represent the rattling of bones in this other piece by Saint-Saëns, which begins with 12 Ds played on the harp to represent a clock striking midnight.

ANSWER: Danse Macabre

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Northern California	Main	Y	4	30.00	100%	100%	100%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	4	25.00	75%	100%	75%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	28.89	100%	100%	89%
Florida	Main	Y	4	17.50	50%	100%	25%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	10	20.00	50%	90%	60%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	20.00	89%	67%	44%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	16.67	56%	89%	22%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	23.33	67%	89%	78%
North	Main	Y	4	25.00	100%	100%	50%
Northeast	Main	Y	11	17.27	73%	64%	36%
South Central	Main	Y	6	20.00	67%	67%	67%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	20.00	83%	58%	58%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	20.00	80%	40%	80%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	18.75	63%	100%	25%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	18.00	80%	60%	40%

Data


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