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This composer developed the pseudo-serialist “micro cell” technique as a member of the New Consonance Improvisational Group. An anvil, a bell, a whip, and a recorder playing rapidly descending sixteenth notes accompany chants of “wind and fire” in a piece by this composer modeled on “Degüello” (“deh-GWEH-yoh”) by Dimitri Tiomkin. This composer and Joan Baez (“BUY-ez”) paid tribute to Sacco & Vanzetti on the song (10[1])“Here’s to You.” In a piece by this composer, the English horn, and later Edda Dell’Orso’s wordless soprano vocals, play a theme with the notes “short A, long C, short E, long C.” In the opening of a theme by this composer of “Gabriel’s (-5[1])Oboe,” (10[4])the flute (10[1])plays (10[1])a (10[1])two-note trill that mimics (10[1])a coyote’s howl, (10[4]-5[1])followed by a “wah-wah-wah” (10[1])sound. For 10 points, name this composer (10[2])of “The Ecstasy of Gold,” part of the score (10[3])to (10[1])Sergio Leone’s “spaghetti (10[1])western” The Good, (10[1])The Bad, and (10[1])the Ugly. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Ennio Morricone (“mor-ih-KOH-nay”)
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y24100%0%8%121.88

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Clark SmithOhio State AGeorgia Tech A6210
Swapnil GargUC Berkeley AHarvard A106-5
Ani PerumallaPenn State AGeorgia Tech B10710
Ameya PhadnisRutgers BJohns Hopkins A10710
Alex PijanowskiPurdue ANYU A10710
Anson BernsBrown ADuke A10710
Michał GerasimiukYale AChicago B10910
Christopher SimsNorthwestern AToronto A11010
Natan HoltzmanStanford AWUSTL A11110
Mateo Javier AcostaFlorida BMinnesota B11510
Alan XieYale BClaremont A118-5
Raymond WangCornell AChicago A11810
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BIllinois A11810
Karan GurazadaTexas ANorth Carolina A11810
Tracy MirkinFlorida AMaryland A11810
Ricky LiMIT AColumbia A12210
Sarod NoriCornell BChicago C12910
Jacob Van OorschotMcGill AVirginia A12910
Justin HawkinsIndiana AMinnesota A13810
Anirudh BharadwajPenn ASouth Carolina A13810
JD KrothIowa State ARutgers A13810
James StevensonMichigan AUC Berkeley B13910
Carlos DoebeliImperial AVanderbilt A14210
Sean DoyleHouston AColumbia B14510
Mazin OmerHarvard AUC Berkeley A14810
Kevin ParkClaremont AYale B15010