Question
This composer used quotes from Paul Laurence Dunbar as epigraphs for each movement of his First Symphony. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this composer, who was the first Black composer to have a piece performed by a leading orchestra when the Rochester Philharmonic premiered his Afro-American Symphony in 1931.
ANSWER: William Grant Still Jr.
[10m] The third movement of the Afro-American Symphony features offbeat chords from the tenor form of this instrument. Earl Scruggs pioneered a move away from the clawhammer technique of this stringed instrument.
ANSWER: tenor banjo
[10e] The first movement begins by quoting “St. Louis Blues,” which uses a classic blues progression that is this many bars long. This is the number of distinct tones in a chromatic scale.
ANSWER: twelve [accept twelve-bar blues]
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Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 0% | 50% |
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Hunter A | Belmont | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Thomas Jefferson C | Mira Loma | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| St. Mark's | Winston Churchill A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Troy | Kinkaid | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| University Lab | Dallas County | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |