minuet - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

The Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach includes two pieces in this genre, one in G major and the other in G minor, which are now known to have been written by Christian Petzold. For 10 points each:

[10e] Identify this genre named for a French dance in triple time. Early symphonies pair it with a contrasting trio section, a format that was superseded by the scherzo and trio.

ANSWER: minuet [accept minuet and trio]

[10h] This composer wrote over 50 symphonies that standardized the four-movement structure and the minuet and trio. This composer and his sons developed the use of dramatic gradual crescendos for full orchestra.

ANSWER: Johann Stamitz [or Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz; or Jan Václav Antonín Stamic; prompt on Stamitz]

[10m] A Romanze is the slow movement of Stamitz’s B-flat-major third piece in this genre. Mozart’s last completed instrumental work was an A-major piece in this genre.

ANSWER: clarinet concerto [prompt on concerto]

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2024 ACF Nationals	2024-04-21	Y	24	11.67	71%	25%	21%

Data


Virginia	Arizona State	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins	Brown	10	0	0	10
Chicago A	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	Florida	10	0	10	20
Harvard	Chicago C	10	0	0	10
Berkeley A	Iowa State	10	0	10	20
Maryland	Michigan	10	10	10	30
Minnesota B	Cornell B	10	0	0	10
Cornell A	North Carolina A	10	10	0	20
Kentucky	North Carolina B	0	0	0	0
Northwestern	Illinois	10	0	0	10
Penn	Claremont Colleges	10	0	10	20
Rutgers	Ottawa	10	0	0	10
South Carolina	Berkeley B	0	0	0	0
Columbia A	Stanford	10	10	0	20
Indiana	Texas	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech	Toronto A	10	0	10	20
Truman State	Chicago D	0	0	0	0
McGill	Vanderbilt	10	0	0	10
WUSTL A	Minnesota A	10	10	0	20
Duke	WUSTL B	0	0	0	0
Waterloo	Purdue	10	0	10	20
Yale A	NYU	0	0	0	0
Toronto B	Yale B	10	0	0	10