Question
The fourth volume of this set of pieces, which contains four pieces titled after stars, is titled Celestial Mechanics. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this set of pieces for amplified piano. Its third volume, which adds a second piano and percussion, is titled Music for a Summer Evening.
ANSWER: Makrokosmos
[10m] This chamber piece by the composer of Makrokosmos, George Crumb, begins with a section titled “Threnody I: Night of the Electric Insects.” The Vietnam War inspired this piece that is written for “electric string quartet.”
ANSWER: Black Angels [or Black Angels (Thirteen Images from the Dark Land)]
[10e] Crumb’s Makrokosmos was inspired by the Mikrokosmos of this Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist.
ANSWER: Béla Bartók [or Béla Viktor János Bartók or Bartók Béla Viktor János]
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