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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 (-5[1])II are designated (10[1])as “Prussian,” while an earlier set of six bear the name of its composer’s friend (10[1])Joseph Haydn. For 10 points, Hunt and Dissonance are among the works Mozart wrote in what genre of chamber (10[1])music scored for (10[2])cello, viola, and two violins? ■END■

ANSWER: string quartets [prompt on quartets]
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