Question
In Density 21.5, Edgard Varèse (“va-REZZ”) introduced this symbol to denote a key click, in which a wind musician makes an indefinite pitch by “slapping” a key on their instrument. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this symbol that, in a different context, instructs string musicians to play a pizzicato note using their left hand, such as in the ninth variation of Paganini’s 24th Caprice.
ANSWER: a plus sign [or a cross]
[10e] In some Baroque music, a symbol resembling a plus sign indicates this type of ornament, which may end with a nachschlag (“nock-shlog”). Classical cadenzas end with long examples of these rapid oscillations between two adjacent notes.
ANSWER: trill [or shake; reject “tremolo” or “tremolando”]
[10m] Music theorists sometimes use a plus sign to denote this chord quality. Raising the fifth of a major triad by a half step yields a triad with this quality, which also names “Italian,” “German,” and “French” sixth chords.
ANSWER: augmented [or word forms such as augmentation; or aug; accept augmented sixth chord]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 24.44 | 89% | 89% | 67% |
Data
| Bard A | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia B | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell C | Penn B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia A | Princeton B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| NYU A | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | Columbia C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rutgers B | Vassar | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Haverford | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn A | Yale C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |