Question
In this collection’s first entry “Of Foreign Lands and People,” the right hand plays a soaring melody over ascending triplets in the middle voice. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this collection. The best-known piece in this collection opens with the right hand playing an ascending fourth from C to F and depicts a dream.
ANSWER: Scenes from Childhood [or Kinderszenen] (The unnamed piece is “Traumerei.”)
[10e] This German composer wrote the piano collection Scenes from Childhood. A movement in this composer’s other piano suite Carnaval depicts his wife Clara.
ANSWER: Robert Schumann
[10m] This other composer repurposed his Adventures of Ivan into a cycle also titled Scenes from Childhood. This Armenian composer of the Masquerade suite wrote music for the ballet Gayane, including a “Sabre Dance.”
ANSWER: Aram Khachaturian
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
Data
| NYU B | University of Delaware B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Princeton | Swarthmore B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Swarthmore A | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rowan | University of Delaware A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |