Question

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 (15[1])marked “without rigor.” The piano bangs out “God Save the King” in one of these pieces that portrays Samuel Pickwick. (15[2])At the opening of one of these pieces, marked “In a sweetly (15[1])sonorous (*) fog,” parallel fifths drawn from a pentatonic scale evoke church bells. (10[1])“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 Ys. For 10 points, “The Sunken Cathedral” and “The Girl with Flaxen Hair” belong to what set of piano pieces (-5[1])by the composer of La Mer? ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Claude Debussy’s Preludes
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Iain CarpenterIllinois A+Maryland B-5215
John LawrenceAmartya Senpai Notice MeChicago B+7215
Adam FineChicago AEpic Games7215
Clark SmithOSUWUSTL8415
Chris SimsNorthwesternMojo Shojo9610
Nolan JonesPurdueMaryland B-143-5
Conor ThompsonMaryland B-Purdue1500

Summary

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