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Composer and genre required. The coda of one of these pieces begins with a melody reminiscent of their composer’s setting of the Ave Maria after a key change from A minor to A major. In the scherzo of one of these pieces, a clarinet introduces an F major melody with four dotted eighth-sixteenth figures that end in a short-long “snap” rhythm. (10[1])Violins repeat the notes A, long C-sharp, A before leaping from A up to E in one of these pieces. The last movement of one of these pieces opens with a solo flute quoting “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.” One of these pieces ends with an A minor saltarello (-5[1])and was written after a tour of Europe that also inspired the overture The Hebrides. For 10 points, “Scottish” and (10[1])“Italian” are nicknames of what orchestral pieces by the composer of incidental music to A Midsummer (10[1])Night’s Dream? ■END■

ANSWER: symphonies by Felix Mendelssohn [accept Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in place of “Mendelssohn”; prompt on symphonies by asking “by what composer?”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Eve FleisigBerkeley CStanford L6010
Ryan FangStanford ABerkeley A110-5
Michal GerasimiukStanford MBerkeley B13010
Swapnil GargBerkeley AStanford A14610