Question
According to its composer, the last movement of this work “recalls a courtly dance in which the combination of double and triple time maintains a taut tempo right to the closing bar”. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 1939 work, whose second movement features a prominent solo for the English horn. That second movement of this work was thought to be inspired by a bombing, though it was later revealed to be a response to the composer’s wife’s miscarriage.
ANSWER: Concierto de Aranjuez
[10e] The solo instrument in Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez is this common 6-stringed instrument, whose classical form was popularised by Andres Segovia.
ANSWER: classical guitar
[10m] This other composer’s only work for guitar was a piece commissioned by Henri Prunières to commemorate the death of Claude Debussy. He wrote a ballet that includes the ‘Ritual Fire Dance’.
ANSWER: Manuel de Falla (y Matheu)
Summary
| 2023 UMN COOT | 08/19/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| BHSU | doubleplusnegfive | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Jeff Weiner Fan Club | Palestrina Sawayama | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Weird Klaus Barbie | Our Job is Buzz | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |