Question

In a 2014 April Fools video, a performer in the choir of King’s College, Cambridge faked inhaling helium before singing this piece’s high C6. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this setting of Psalm 51 by Gregorio Allegri. After hearing this piece at a service, a fourteen-year old Mozart legendarily transcribed it from memory.
ANSWER: Miserere mei, Deus (“mee-zuh-RAIR-ray may DAY-us”)
[10e] The high C6 of the Miserere is often sung by boy sopranos whose vocal type is described by this word. A spiral-shaped clef used by high-pitched instruments like the violin is described by this word.
ANSWER: trebles [accept treble clef]
[10m] Allegri’s Miserere uses this technique characteristic of the Roman school that was legendarily unbanned due to Palestrina’s Pope Marcellus Mass. This technique uses more than one simultaneous melodic line.
ANSWER: polyphony [or word forms such as polyphonic]
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Georgia AAlabama A0000
Auburn BClemson B010010
Auburn CBelmont001010
Vanderbilt AEmory A10101030
Georgia Tech DGeorgia Tech A1001020
Georgia Tech CFurman0000
Georgia Tech EAuburn A0101020
Mississippi State AEmory Oxford0101020
South Carolina ATennessee A0101020
Georgia Tech BSouth Carolina B010010
SouthernTennessee B0000
Clemson AVanderbilt B0101020