Question
Quito’s Church of La Compañía (“kohm-pahn-YEE-ah”) houses a rare surviving one of these instruments, which Alonso Morón taught in colonial Cuba. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this early instrument taught using Enríquez de Valderrábano’s book Silva de Sirenas, which eclipsed the lute in the Iberian Peninsula. It shares its name with a high-pitched counterpart of the guitarrón in Mariachi bands.
ANSWER: vihuela (“vee-WAY-lah”) [accept vihuela de mano or viola de mão; accept vihuela de arco; accept vihuela de péñola; accept vihuela mexicana or Mexican vihuela; reject “viola” alone]
[10h] The vihuelist Luis de Narváez influenced this blind 16th-century composer, whose Obras de música para tecla, arpa y vihuela includes some of the first Iberian keyboard music. This organist composed many tientos.
ANSWER: Antonio de Cabezón
[10e] Miguel de Fuenllana (“fwen-YAH-nah”), another blind composer and vihuelist, wrote his Orphénica Lyrica for this monarch. This late-Renaissance monarch originally built the namesake palace of Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez (“ah-rahn-HWAYS”).
ANSWER: Philip II of Spain [accept Philip the Prudent, or Philip I of Portugal; accept “Felipe” in place of “Philip”; accept el Prudente in place of “the Prudent”; prompt on Philip or Felipe]
<Nick Jensen, Classical Music and Opera>
Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 14.44 | 100% | 33% | 11% |
Data
| BHSU | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | remembrance of lost time | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Evans Hall destruction awaiters | In Search of Things Past | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | Quasicrystal Silence | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | Saint Peter Andre 3000 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Team Name Think Detail | The Canadians | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |