Question

Emilio de' Cavalieri wrote the first of these pieces, which pioneered “recitar cantando,” and is titled Portrayal (15[1])of the Soul and the Body. Hans Werner Henze arranged one of these pieces by Giacomo Carrisini, which inspired a later piece of this type that evokes Iphis. (-5[1])The section “From Arabia's spicy shores” appears in a piece of this type before the section “Ev'ry sight these eyes behold.” Organ and trombone feature in the (*) “Dead March” from one of these pieces after the deaths of Jonathan and the title character. Bagpipers (10[1])are depicted in the “Pifa” (10[1])section (10[1])of a piece of this type partly by Charles Jennens. The “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” (-5[1])appears in one of these pieces titled Solomon, written by a composer of another of them that repeats “He shall reign forever and ever.” (10[1])For 10 points, name this genre of Handel's Messiah. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: oratorios
<Noah Sheidlower, Auditory Fine Arts>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Richard NiuCornell BUMD A1615
Forrest WeintraubColumbia AColumbia B44-5
Sinecio MoralesJHU APitt8810
Aum MundheRutgersCornell A9310
Owen MimnoNYUUMD B9410
Derrick LiuJHU BJohn Jay A111-5
Cade ReinbergerRITSwarthmore13510
Jason QinColumbia BColumbia A14410
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