Question

The 6/8 opening of a piece in this genre features the theme in eighth notes (read slowly) “pickup F, (emphasize) F, D, D, (emphasize) D, B-flat, B-flat, (emphasize) long B-flat.” A D minor piece in this genre supposedly evokes its composer’s wife’s cries during labor with loud rising figures. Pulsing low Cs are joined by the successive entrances on rising notes A-flat, E-flat, and A-natural in the slow introduction to a piece in this genre whose nickname stems from its unconventional harmony. A set of three pieces in this genre dedicated to King Friedrich Wilhelm II are designated as “Prussian,” while an earlier set of six bear the name of its composer’s friend Joseph Haydn. For 10 points, Hunt (10[1])and Dissonance are among the works Mozart wrote in what genre of chamber music scored for (10[1])cello, viola, and two violins? ■END■

ANSWER: string quartets [prompt on quartets]
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