Question
This work contains the score markings “mystérieusement sonore” and “avec une sombre majesté” over diminished arpeggios. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this highly chromatic and atonal one-movement work written to exorcise the demonic forces of an earlier piece that its composer feared to play in public.
ANSWER: “White Mass” Piano Sonata [or “Messe Blanche” Piano Sonata; or Alexander Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64]
[10m] Alexander Scriabin, the composer of the “White Mass” Sonata, expressed religious views derived from Theosophy in the 300-line poem accompanying his symphonic work titled The Poem of [this emotion].
ANSWER: ecstasy [accept The Poem of Ecstasy or Le Poème de l’extase, Op. 54]
[10e] Scriabin’s final work Mysterium, whose premiere in the Himalayas was supposed to signal the end of the world, is largely inspired by this perceptual phenomenon where musical sounds appear as colors.
ANSWER: synesthesia [accept synesthetic or synesthetes]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 10 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 100% | 38% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 8.00 | 80% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Binghamton | Cornell C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| RIT B | Cornell A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell B | RIT A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |