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Note to players: composer and type of work required. One of these pieces by this composer is in F-sharp minor but unusually begins with rapid, tempestuous pianissimo D-7 arpeggios over an F-sharp pedal tone. The eighth of these pieces opens with the right hand playing descending “D-flat, B-flat, G-flat, E-flat,” in a passage marked “without rigor.” The piano bangs out “God Save the King” in one of these pieces that portrays Samuel Pickwick. At the opening of (15[1])one of these pieces, marked “In a sweetly sonorous (*) fog,” parallel fifths drawn from a pentatonic scale evoke church bells. “What the West Wind Saw” appears in the first of two books of twelve of these pieces. The tenth of these pieces depicts the legendary city of (10[1])Ys. For 10 points, “The Sunken Cathedral” and “The Girl with Flaxen (10[1])Hair” belong to what set of piano pieces by the composer of La Mer? ■END■

ANSWER: Claude Debussy’s Preludes
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Jonathan MaginMaryland B+Rutgers Diaspora7615
Vincent DuThe Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 NegsGlass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery12310
Jacob EgolFan-tastic Negs and Where to Find ThemMaryland A13510

Summary

2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y683%67%17%75.20
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y3100%33%0%111.33