Question
Yolanda Kondonassis played this instrument on the world premiere recording of Alan Hovhaness’s (“hoh-VAH-niss’s”) “Spirit of Trees,” which uniquely pairs guitar with this instrument. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this tall instrument whose “concert” variety has 7 pedals and 47 plucked strings.
ANSWER: harp [accept concert harp]
[10h] Hovhaness’s “Garden of Adonis” is for harp and this other instrument, which Mozart featured with harp in a double concerto. This instrument plays a solo in 9/8 (“nine-eight”) that descends chromatically from C-sharp to G and ascends back to C-sharp to open an 1894 tone poem.
ANSWER: flute [or transverse flute]
[10m] This composer sought to complete six sonatas for various instruments, one of which is for flute, harp, and viola. Earlier, he included a print of The Great Wave off Kanagawa on the cover of a set of three symphonic sketches.
ANSWER: Claude Debussy [or Achille Claude Debussy]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 9 | 21.11 | 78% | 67% | 67% |
Data
| Haverford | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia B | Rowan A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Princeton A | Columbia C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn A | Cornell C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| NYU A | Bard A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rutgers A | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Princeton B | Rutgers B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn B | Vassar | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Yale C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |