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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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 9 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 7 | 7.14 | 29% | 43% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 12 | 13.33 | 58% | 58% | 17% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 12.22 | 67% | 56% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 7 | 20.00 | 100% | 71% | 29% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 10 | 19.00 | 80% | 80% | 30% |
Data
| Bard A (UG) | Rowan A (DII) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A (UG) | Rutgers A (UG) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland B (DII) | Lehigh A (UG) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Lehigh B (DII) | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia J (DII) | Maryland A (DII) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia B | Penn B (DII) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Princeton A (UG) | Rutgers B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |