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This country names a piano suite that opens with the slow cyclic motif “F-sharp, E, C-sharp, B,” orchestrated as its composer’s Opus 98b. A composer from this country opened her D minor piano concerto “in One Movement” by transposing the low-string melody “E, D, E, long B” from an earlier symphony written in this country. The first violin plays a shrill F major melody an octave above everyone else in the scherzo (“SKAIRT-so”) of a string quartet inspired by this country, imitating a red-eyed vireo that its composer heard on vacation. A pentatonic viola melody opens that string quartet named for this country, its composer’s 12th. Harry Burleigh’s voice influenced an English horn solo in a symphony inspired by this country, which was adapted as the song “Goin’ Home.” For 10 points, name this country where Dvořák (“d’VOR-zhak”) wrote his “New World” Symphony. ■END■

ANSWER: United States [or America or US or USA or United States of America; accept American Suite, Op. 98; accept “American” String Quartet, Op. 96] (The second clue refers to Florence Price’s Piano Concerto in D minor, which opens with a trumpet quotation of Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony. The birdsong in Dvořák’s “American” String Quartet was once erroneously thought to be a scarlet tanager.)
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