An unaccompanied horn solo opens a 1993 piece in this genre based on hymns and Bach chorales that reminded the composer of Abraham Lincoln. Three movements inspired by the Odyssey, such as “Immortal thread, so weak,” make up a piece in this genre titled Wine-Dark Sea by John Mackey. Give Us This Day is a “short” piece in this genre by David Maslanka. A fugue marked “Rather broad” is the third movement of a B-flat-major piece in this genre by Paul Hindemith. It’s not a requiem, but an optional chorus appears in the martial third movement “Apotheosis” of a piece in this genre written for the tenth anniversary of the July Revolution. A “grande” piece in this genre subtitled “funèbre et triomphale” (“few-NEB ray tree-awn-FALL”) was written by Hector Berlioz. For 10 points, name this genre of large-scale music for an orchestra without strings. ■END■
ANSWER: symphony for concert band [or symphony for wind ensemble; or symphony for wind band; prompt on band or wind ensemble by asking “what kind of piece?”; prompt on symphony or short symphony by asking “for what type of ensemble?”; reject “symphony for brass band”]
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