Question
Pancrace Royer’s (“pan-CROSS rwah-YAY’s”) vigorous harpsichord pieces in this musical form include the furious block-chord-laden piece “Le vertigo.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this musical form with alternating refrains and episodes, similar to a forme fixe of the same name. Rameau perfected this genre with harpsichord pieces like “Les cyclopes” and the original “Les sauvages” (“leh so-VAZH”).
ANSWER: rondeau [or rondo; reject “round”]
[10e] This family of French harpsichordists included Marguerite-Antoinette, the first woman to be a royal court musician, and her father François, who composed “Les barricades mystérieuses.”
ANSWER: Couperin family [accept François Couperin; accept Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin]
[10h] Louis Couperin invented a genre of harpsichord preludes named for their lack of this musical feature. A German musicological term denotes these features when they are retroactively added to older vocal music.
ANSWER: bar lines [or measure lines; or barres de mesure; accept Mensurstriche; accept descriptions of marks that indicate separation of measures; accept unmeasured or non-measured prelude; accept prélude non mesuré]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 12.50 | 75% | 29% | 21% |
Data
| Arizona State | Duke | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard | Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Purdue | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago B | Texas | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago C | Kentucky | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cornell A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Claremont Colleges | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida | Ottawa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Berkeley A | Illinois | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Brown | Iowa State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Toronto A | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland | Yale A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | South Carolina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NYU | Georgia Tech | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| McGill | North Carolina B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Michigan | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Penn | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell B | Truman State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago D | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale B | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Waterloo | Stanford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |