Question
Despite its name, this work is [emphasize] not its composer’s final work, as he wrote and dedicated a piece that he called his “last rose” to the Moravian soprano Maria Jeritza (“HAIR-it-sa”) two months later. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this song cycle that quotes a motif from its composer’s tone poem Death and Transfiguration after the soprano sings its final words, “Is this, perhaps, death?”
ANSWER: Four Last Songs [or Vier Letzte Lieder]
[10e] This composer’s Four Last Songs describes how summer lingers on “by the roses” before “slowly it closes its large / eyes grown weary.” This composer also wrote Also Sprach Zarathustra.
ANSWER: Richard Strauss [prompt on Strauss]
[10m] Many composers have adapted Thomas Moore’s poem “The Last Rose of Summer” into pieces using this musical form. Robert Schumann exclaimed, “Hats off, gentlemen; a genius!” in response to one of these pieces by Frédéric Chopin for piano.
ANSWER: theme and variations [accept any answer containing variations]
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Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | Premiere | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University | Premiere | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges | Premiere | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 40% | 60% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Indiana | Premiere | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 80% | 40% | 40% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at RIT | Premiere | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 0% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL | Premiere | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Syracuse+Rochester | Cornell MATLAB | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell R | RIT | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |