Question
When writing her Fantasia Fugata, Amy Beach took inspiration from this composer by placing her cat Hamlet on her piano to improvise a theme. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this composer who transcribed the subject of one of his 555 keyboard sonatas from an incident in which his cat Pulcinella walked across his harpsichord.
ANSWER: Domenico Scarlatti [or Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti; prompt on Scarlatti]
[10e] For his Old American Folk Songs, this composer wrote an original setting of the song “I Bought Me a Cat.” This composer of Rodeo included variations on “Simple Gifts” in his ballet Appalachian Spring.
ANSWER: Aaron Copland
[10h] This piece’s movement “Mi-a-ou” is not named for a cat, but is this piece’s eponymous young girl pronouncing her brother Raoul’s name. This suite for piano four-hands by Gabriel Fauré also includes a “Kitty-Valse.”
ANSWER: Dolly Suite
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 23.33 | 100% | 78% | 56% |
Data
| Columbia A | Penn B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia B | Columbia C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell C | Haverford | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| NYU B | Princeton A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Penn A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Vassar | Princeton B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | Rowan A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| NYU A | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | Yale C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |