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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 the descending theme “Long D-flat, B-flat - G-flat - E-flat,” followed by an ascent back up to D-flat, in a passage marked “without rigor.” At the opening of one of these pieces, marked “In a sweetly sonorous (*) fog,” parallel fifths drawn from a pentatonic scale (10[1])evoke (-5[1])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 Ys. For 10 points, “The Sunken Cathedral” and “The Girl with Flaxen Hair” belong to (10[1])what set of piano pieces by the composer of La Mer? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Claude Debussy’s Preludes
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Daniel MaOlmo (Bonus) Bagelrynats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft8910
Noah SheidlowerColumbia BUG Championship Players (and Mazin)90-5
Rahul KeyalWatching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Againmeet the new weird, same as the old weird13410
Jason HongUG Championship Players (and Mazin)Columbia B14610

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2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y3100%33%0%80.67
2023 BHSU @ Yale04/08/2023Y3100%0%33%123.00
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo04/15/2023Y3100%0%0%117.00