Question
Note to moderator: Please read the answerline for the first part carefully.On Peter Schickele’s “New Horizons in Music Appreciation,” a fictional conductor with this name leads a performance ridden with sports-style commentary. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this movement written after its composer recovered from an intestinal disease. Its solemn, imitative melody, which begins “C, up to A, G, long high C,” trades with a faster passage in 3/8 (“three-eight”) marked “with renewed strength.”
ANSWER: Heiliger Dankgesang [accept Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart; accept Holy Song of Thanksgiving to the Deity of a Convalescent, in the Lydian Mode; prompt on the third movement or Molto adagio – Andante of Beethoven’s 15th String Quartet or Opus 132 by asking “what is its formal name?”]
[10m] To recover from an earlier illness, Beethoven went to Teplitz, where he wrote about his problems in a letter to this person. Beethoven wrote a movement cut from his “Waldstein” Sonata for someone who may have been this person.
ANSWER: Immortal Beloved [or Unsterbliche Geliebte; prompt on partial answer; prompt on Josephine Brunsvick by asking “what identity do some scholars think she may have held?”] (The unnamed movement is Beethoven’s Andante favori.)
[10e] Yale’s Brentano String Quartet is named after another possible Immortal Beloved, Antonie, for whom Beethoven wrote a piano piece in this genre. That piece consists of 33 renditions of a waltz by Anton Diabelli.
ANSWER: theme and variations [accept Diabelli Variations, Op. 120; accept 33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120 or 33 Veränderungen über einer Walzer von Diabelli, Op. 120]
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Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 10 | 16.00 | 100% | 50% | 10% |
Data
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | BHSU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | Evans Hall destruction awaiters | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| In Search of Things Past | I would prefer not to | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Team Name Think Detail | Saint Peter Andre 3000 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub | The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The Canadians | wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Quasicrystal Silence | [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| remembrance of lost time | Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |