Caroline Shaw - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

This composer used a 24-chord progression using all major and minor triads at the beginning of The Isle, which was included on the album Rough Magic. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this composer who repeated the spoken phrase “the detail of the pattern is movement” in a 2013 piece written for the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth.

ANSWER: Caroline Shaw [or Caroline Adelaide Shaw]

[10e] Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices was criticized by Tanya Tagaq for its use of this technique without crediting an Inuit song it drew from. This broad range of vocal techniques often produces guttural sounds and is closely associated with Mongolia.

ANSWER: throat singing [or throat chanting; or throat harmony; accept kattajaq or xhöömi or khoomei; accept overtone singing]

[10m] Partita for 8 Voices also draws on pansori musical storytelling, which developed in this region. The folk song “Arirang” is traditionally performed in this region.

ANSWER: Korea [or Korean peninsula; accept North Korea or South Korea; prompt on East Asia]

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California	Main	Y	5	22.00	100%	100%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	13	18.46	100%	77%	8%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	18.57	100%	71%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	17.00	100%	60%	10%
North	Main	Y	10	18.00	100%	50%	30%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	17.50	100%	58%	17%
South Central	Main	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	14.17	100%	33%	8%
UK	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	18.75	100%	50%	38%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	14	14.29	93%	36%	14%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%

Data


Stanford C	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Stanford A	Berkeley D	0	10	10	20
Berkeley E	Stanford B	0	10	10	20
Berkeley F	Berkeley A	10	10	10	30
UCLA D	UCLA A	0	10	0	10
Berkeley C	UCSC	0	10	10	20
McGill B	McGill C	0	10	0	10
Queen's B	Guelph B	0	10	10	20
McMaster B	Toronto E	0	10	0	10
Toronto H	McMaster C	0	10	10	20
Carleton	Queen's A	0	10	10	20
Toronto A	Toronto D	10	10	10	30
Ottawa	Toronto B	0	10	10	20
McGill A	Toronto C	0	10	10	20
Toronto F	Toronto J	0	10	10	20
Toronto K	Toronto I	0	10	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto G	0	10	10	20
Waterloo	Western Ontario	0	10	0	10
Melbourne B	ERAU B	0	10	0	10
UCF B	FIU	0	10	0	10
FSU	UF B	0	10	0	10
Melbourne A	UF C	0	10	10	20
UF D	UCF A	0	10	10	20
USF	ERAU A	0	10	0	10
Guelph A	McMaster A	0	10	10	20
CWRU A	OSU A	0	10	0	10
OSU B	Kenyon B	10	10	10	30
OSU C	Pitt B	0	10	10	20
Pitt A	OSU D	0	10	10	20
CWRU B	CWRU D	0	10	10	20
CWRU C	Pitt C	0	10	0	10
MSU A	Kenyon A	0	10	10	20
NC State	Clemson B	0	10	0	10
Clemson A	North Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Liberty C	Roanoke	0	10	0	10
South Carolina B	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Virginia Tech B	10	10	10	30
Virginia Tech A	Tennessee B	0	10	10	20
Virginia A	South Carolina A	0	10	10	20
Virginia B	Liberty A	0	10	10	20
North Carolina C	James Madison	0	10	10	20
George Mason A	Notre Dame E	0	10	0	10
George Mason B	Catholic University	0	10	0	10
George Washington B	George Mason C	0	10	0	10
Georgetown A	George Washington A	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Georgetown B	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins C	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	Maryland C	10	10	10	30
Maryland D	UMBC A	0	10	0	10
NYU A	VCU A	10	10	10	30
Penn A	NYU B	0	10	10	20
North Carolina A	Tusculum	0	10	10	20
Swarthmore A	Columbia A	0	10	10	20
Columbia B	Rutgers C	0	10	0	10
Rutgers B	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
Rowan A	Princeton A	0	10	0	10
Vassar A	Lehigh B	0	10	10	20
Missouri B	SIUE	0	10	0	10
WashU A	WashU C	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	William Woods	0	10	0	10
Truman State	WashU D	0	10	0	10
UIC	Illinois A	0	10	0	10
Chicago C	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Illinois B	Chicago D	0	10	0	10
Kentucky	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
Indiana B	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame B	Notre Dame C	0	10	10	20
Louisville A	Notre Dame D	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
Michigan D	Purdue B	0	10	10	20
Louisville B	Purdue C	10	10	10	30
Carleton	Iowa State	0	10	0	10
Minnesota B	Macalester B	0	10	0	10
St. Thomas	Minnesota C	0	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Nebraska	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin	Macalester A	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Indiana A	10	10	10	30
MIT A	BU	10	10	0	20
BC A	Amherst B	0	10	10	20
Amherst A	BC B	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Clemenceau	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Orlando	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Wilson	Dartmouth	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Brown A	0	10	10	20
Cornell-UG	Brown B	0	10	0	10
Tufts B	Harvard	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Lloyd George	Williams	0	10	10	20
Yale B	MIT B	0	10	10	20
Alberta	British Columbia C	0	10	0	10
British Columbia D	Simon Fraser	0	10	10	20
Washington A	British Columbia A	0	10	10	20
Washington B	British Columbia B	0	10	10	20
Bowdoin A	Brown C	0	10	0	10
Northwestern C	Arizona State A	0	10	0	10
Alberta B	Northwestern B	10	10	10	30
McGill D	Rose State	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	Texas A	10	10	10	30
Texas B	Tulsa	0	10	10	20
UCO	Iowa	0	10	0	10
Ohio	UTD A	10	10	10	30
Arizona State B	UTD B	0	10	0	10
Alabama A	Huntsville B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Auburn B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech C	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Mississippi State A	0	10	10	20
Alabama B	Sewanee A	0	10	0	10
UAB A	Georgia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Vanderbilt B	Bruin A	0	10	0	10
Auburn A	Huntsville A	0	10	0	10
Birmingham A	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Bristol A	Oxford A	0	10	10	20
Bristol B	City St George's A	0	10	10	20
Oxford B	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Durham A	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Durham B	Sheffield C	0	0	0	0
Edinburgh A	Cambridge C	10	10	0	20
Edinburgh B	Sheffield B	0	10	0	10
LSE A	Imperial A	10	10	10	30
Imperial B	Imperial C	0	10	0	10
Manchester A	Sheffield A	0	10	10	20
Manchester B	Cambridge D	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Southampton B	LSE B	0	10	10	20
Cornell-DII	Syracuse	0	10	0	10
Binghamton A	Binghamton B	0	10	10	20
RIT B	Rochester	0	10	0	10
RIT A	ESF	0	10	0	10