Question
Answer the following about extremely long minimalist pieces of music, for 10 points each.
[10h] This minimalist composer’s second string quartet lasts six hours. He also wrote the opera Neither with Samuel Beckett, and a choral piece to be performed in its title location, Rothko Chapel.
ANSWER: Morton Feldman
[10m] Clocking in at 8.5 hours is Max Richter’s album Sleep, which he structured to reflect this piece. Glenn Gould is known for his 1955 and 1981 recordings of this piece, the latter of which he performed at a much slower tempo.
ANSWER: Goldberg Variations [or Goldberg-Variationen; accept BWV 988] (by J. S. Bach)
[10e] Putting the length of Feldman’s String Quartet II and Richter’s Sleep to shame, a performance of this composer’s organ piece As Slow as Possible is set to complete in 2640. This composer also wrote the decidedly shorter 4’33” (“four minutes and thirty-three seconds”).
ANSWER: John Cage [or John Milton Cage, Jr.]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 38% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 88% | 50% | 38% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 24.44 | 100% | 89% | 56% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 14.29 | 86% | 57% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 38% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 11 | 17.27 | 91% | 64% | 18% |
Data
| Penn State A | Bard A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Lehigh A | Johns Hopkins B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Penn B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rowan A | Penn State B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rowan A | Penn State B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rowan A | Penn State B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rowan A | Penn State B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rowan A | Penn State B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rowan A | Penn State B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rowan A | Penn State B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rowan A | Penn State B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Princeton A | Johns Hopkins B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers C | Princeton A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |