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The fast section of one of these pieces is dominated by a staccato sixteenth note melody, first played piano and then in frenzied octaves, which begins [read slowly] “F G A B-flat C B-flat A B-flat C, C.” Franz Doppler orchestrated six of these pieces. These pieces often use a harmonic minor scale with a raised fourth, such as in a late one based on a march that also appears in Berlioz’s (*) Damnation of Faust. Marc-André Hamelin wrote a celebrated cadenza for the second of these pieces, which opens with a “gracenote C-sharp, C-sharp,” followed by “C-sharp–B, C-sharp–B.” Tom plays the second of these pieces in the Tom and Jerry episode The Cat Concerto. These pieces are divided into slow lassan and fast friska sections. For 10 points, dances like the verbunkos and csárdás (“CHAR-dahsh”) inspired what set of 19 virtuosic (-5[1])piano pieces by Franz (10[1])Liszt? ■END■ (0[3])

ANSWER: Hungarian Rhapsodies [prompt on rhapsodies] (The scale is the Hungarian minor scale; the fifteenth Hungarian Rhapsody is based on the Rákóczi March.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Neal JoshiWUSTL XYZWUSTL H2O139-5
Giifti BentiSIUESquidward Community College14310
Dede BinkhoelterMissouri BMissouri A1450
Braden BoothMissouri AMissouri B1450
Amith PunyalaWUSTL H2OWUSTL XYZ1450

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