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Edvard Grieg used this genre to label pieces called Scenes from Country Life. A “lyric” type of this genre subtitles Carl Nielsen’s cantata Springtime in Funen. Two opus numbers unusually split (-5[1])Sibelius’s suite of six short pieces in this genre for violin and orchestra. (10[1])The melody [read slowly] F-sharp G-sharp (10[1])A G-sharp A (10[1])begins (10[1])the lyrical, F-sharp minor B-section (10[2])of a piano piece (10[1])in this genre, which begins with a skipping rhythm in the enharmonic parallel major. An unusually sprawling, multi-movement B-flat major piano work in this genre ends with an allegro movement titled “To the Resolution” and is by Robert Schumann. A frequently transcribed G-flat major piece in this genre (10[1])is the seventh of eight pieces in this genre by Antonín Dvořák (10[2])based on themes written in New York. (-5[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])name this Romantic genre often used for short pieces that feature wit and (10[1])comedy. (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[6])

ANSWER: humoresque [or Humoreske; accept Humoresques or Humoresky; accept Humoreske in B-flat major; accept Six Humoresques; accept lyric humoresque or lyrical humoresque]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2176%0%14%100.50

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Raymond WangCornell AJohns Hopkins A30-5
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AChicago B4310
Shardul RaoMinnesota AMaryland A4910
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AImperial A5210
Danny HanPenn AVanderbilt A5310
Michael LiBrown AStanford A5810
Sky LiToronto AWUSTL A5810
Karan GurazadaTexas AYale A6210
Drake EshlemanIndiana APurdue A11010
Morgan BozemanMinnesota BNorthwestern A12210
Jacob EgolDuke AMIT A12210
Forrest WeintraubColumbia BFlorida A129-5
Clark SmithOhio State AMcGill A132-5
Arjun NageswaranHarvard AChicago A14510
Aum MundheRutgers AHouston A14610
Jeya IyaduraiFlorida BChicago C14710
Max ChemtovMcGill AOhio State A14710
Kevin ParkClaremont ANYU A14710
Alan XieYale BSouth Carolina A14710
Leo LawFlorida AColumbia B1470
Seth EbnerJohns Hopkins ACornell A1470
Todd MaslykMichigan APenn State A1470
Ani PerumallaPenn State AMichigan A1470
Noah SheidlowerColumbia AWUSTL B1470
David BassVirginia AIowa State A1470