Question
The only soloist in this composer’s Stabat Mater is a soprano who sings in just three of its 12 movements. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Catholic composer of a concerto for organ, timpani, and strings. In his G-major setting of the Gloria, the chorus enters with a double-dotted melody that stresses odd syllables.
ANSWER: Francis Poulenc (“poo-LANK”) [or Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc]
[10m] Four of these pieces make up a Poulenc collection titled for penitence and based on texts for Tenebrae. Anton Bruckner’s 40 or so pieces in this genre include Os justi.
ANSWER: motet
[10e] This is the genre of Poulenc’s Figure humaine. J. S. Bach wrote over 200 pieces in this genre, including one based on the hymn “Wachet auf” and another that includes the chorale “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.”
ANSWER: cantata [accept church cantata; accept chorale cantata]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 23 | 11.30 | 65% | 26% | 22% |
Data
| NYU | Berkeley A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Berkeley B | Chicago C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Brown | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto B | Florida | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Illinois | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Indiana | Minnesota A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michigan | Iowa State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Kentucky | Chicago D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Maryland | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cornell B | McGill | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina B | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Waterloo | North Carolina A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northwestern | Georgia Tech | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Arizona State | Penn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| WUSTL A | Purdue | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stanford | Texas | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Harvard | Truman State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| South Carolina | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Claremont Colleges | WUSTL B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |