Question
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji wrote four very long piano pieces in this genre, which each have between five and ten movements. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this musical form that includes York Bowen’s Opus 155, to be played Allegro furioso. Ned Rorem’s First Piano Sonata ends with this kind of movement.
ANSWER: toccata
[10m] Robert Schumann’s Opus 7 is a toccata in this key based on Czerny’s (“CHAIR-nee’s”) toccata in this key. Other difficult piano pieces in this key include Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy and an unrelated Fantasie by Schumann.
ANSWER: C major [accept Fantasie in C; reject “C minor” or “B-sharp”]
[10e] This composer’s piano toccata is in the rare key of E-flat minor. His ballet Gayane (“gah-yah-NEH”) includes a percussive “Sabre Dance.”
ANSWER: Aram Khachaturian [or Aram Ilyich Khachaturian]
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