harpsichord - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre earned the patronage of Louis XIV after writing pieces for this instrument. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this instrument that François Couperin wrote a guide to playing. Unlike pianos, this keyboard instrument plucks, rather than hits the strings.

ANSWER: harpsichord [or clavecin]

[10m] Alongside the earlier works by Couperin, this composer’s Pièces de Clavecin (“pee-ESS duh klav-SAN”) are among the most popular French harpsichord suites. This composer rose to fame after publishing his Treatise on Harmony.

ANSWER: Jean-Philippe Rameau

[10h] A characteristic feature of French baroque harpsichord suites is the use of opening preludes described by this term in which the rhythm is not notated and is left to the performer to decide.

ANSWER: unmeasured prelude [or non-measured prelude or prélude non mesuré]

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Berkeley E	Berkeley D	10	0	0	10
Berkeley F	UCSC	10	10	0	20
Berkeley A	Stanford B	10	0	0	10
Stanford A	Stanford C	10	0	0	10
UCLA D	Claremont Scripps	10	0	0	10
UCLA A	UCLA B	10	10	0	20
UCLA C	Claremont Pitzer	10	0	0	10
UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	UCI	10	10	0	20
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCSB	10	0	0	10
USC	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	10	0	0	10
Carleton	Guelph A	10	10	0	20
McMaster C	McGill B	10	0	0	10
Toronto H	McGill C	10	0	0	10
Queen's A	McMaster A	10	0	0	10
Ottawa	Toronto Metropolitan	10	10	0	20
Toronto A	Toronto G	10	10	0	20
Toronto B	Guelph B	10	10	0	20
Toronto J	Toronto C	10	0	0	10
Toronto D	McGill A	10	0	0	10
Western Ontario	Toronto I	10	0	0	10
McMaster B	Toronto K	10	0	0	10
Waterloo	Queen's B	10	0	0	10
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FIU	UF E	10	0	0	10
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OSU D	MSU A	10	10	0	20
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OSU B	OSU C	10	0	0	10
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Roanoke	Tusculum	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	South Carolina A	10	0	0	10
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Tennessee B	NC State	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech B	Virginia B	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame E	Catholic University	10	0	0	10
UMBC A	George Mason A	0	0	0	0
Maryland B	George Washington B	10	0	0	10
Georgetown B	Maryland D	10	10	0	20
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Rowan A	Rutgers B	10	0	0	10
Swarthmore A	Vassar A	10	10	0	20
Lehigh A	Princeton A	10	0	0	10
Missouri A	WashU C	10	0	0	10
SIUE	WashU D	10	0	0	10
Missouri B	WashU A	10	0	0	10
WashU B	William Woods	10	0	0	10
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Wisconsin	Macalester B	10	0	0	10
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Iowa State	Nebraska	10	0	0	10
Carleton	St. Thomas	10	0	0	10
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BC B	Yale B	0	0	0	0
Brandeis Clemenceau	BU	0	0	0	0
Amherst B	Bowdoin B	10	0	0	10
Brandeis Lloyd George	Brandeis Wilson	10	0	0	10
Brown A	Cornell-UG	10	10	10	30
MIT B	Brown C	0	0	0	0
MIT A	Yale A	10	10	10	30
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British Columbia D	Alberta	10	10	0	20
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Washington A	British Columbia B	10	0	0	10
British Columbia C	Washington B	10	10	0	20
Arizona State A	Alberta B	10	0	0	10
Texas A	Arizona State B	10	0	0	10
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Northwestern B	Northwestern C	10	10	0	20
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