Question
Answer the following about musical experimentation on the Beatles’ album Revolver, for 10 points each.
[10e] On the track “Love You To,” this Beatle emulated khyal music with sitars. Ravi Shankar taught this lead guitarist, who wrote the song “Here Comes the Sun.”
ANSWER: George Harrison
[10h] To imitate Tibetan chanting, the vocals on “Tomorrow Never Knows” were fed through a Leslie speaker and then played over this keyboard instrument’s magnetic tapes. This instrument popular among progressive rockers plays a flute on “Strawberry Fields Forever.”
ANSWER: Mellotron
[10m] “Eleanor Rigby” experimented with viola staccatos, similar to how John Cale introduced viola drones on this band’s song “Venus in Furs.” This group was the house band of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable.
ANSWER: The Velvet Underground [accept The Velvet Underground and Nico]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 33% | 67% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 63% | 50% | 38% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 83% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 80% | 80% | 20% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 88% | 75% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 6.00 | 20% | 40% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia A | Haverford | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Vassar | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| John Jay | NYU B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU A | Penn | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Rowan | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |