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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[2])Violins repeat the notes A, long C-sharp, A before leaping from A up to E (10[1])in one of these pieces. (10[1])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 and was written after a tour of Europe that also inspired the overture The Hebrides. For 10 points, “Scottish” and “Italian” (10[2])are nicknames of what orchestral pieces by the composer of incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream? ■END■ (10[1])

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
Will McCurleyAuburn AGeorgia Tech E6010
Jeffry XuGeorgia Tech BGeorgia Tech D6010
Allen XuGeorgia Tech FEmory B7510
Euan HamGeorgia Tech AEmory A8010
Britton WebsterAlabama AGeorgia Tech C13110
Bob FreedmanGeorgia AClemson A13110
Malachi LedfordTusculum AAuburn B14910