Question
This piece begins with the left hand playing a descending chain of octave A’s alternating with octave E-flats. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this one-movement piece often excerpted from the second book of Years of Pilgrimage. Its subtitle of “Fantasia quasi Sonata” is a reference to the Moonlight Sonata’s subtitle of “quasi una fantasia.”
ANSWER: Dante Sonata [or Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata; prompt on Dante; reject “Dante Symphony”]
[10e] The Dante Sonata and Dante Symphony were written by this progressive composer, who introduced the term “symphonic poem” to describe pieces like his Les préludes (“lay pray-LEWD”).
ANSWER: Franz Liszt [or Liszt Ferenc or Liszt Ferencz]
[10m] The Dante Sonata’s development is largely in this ethereal major key, whose scale includes the note E-sharp, but also B-natural. The fast section of Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 is mostly in this key.
ANSWER: F-sharp major [reject “F-sharp minor” or “F” or “G-flat”]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |