Question

One of Dieterich Buxtehude’s (“books-tuh-HOO-duh’s”) 19 pieces in this genre was written in F-sharp minor on an organ tuned in Werckmeister (“VERK-my-stur”) temperament due to its unplayability in meantone. The left hand’s sixteenth-note ostinato speeds up to presto in the second half of an E minor Bach piece in this genre, BWV 855. Louis Couperin left note lengths to the discretion of the performer in his “unmeasured” form of this genre. 46 hymns like Vom Himmel hoch (“fom HIM-mul hohkh”) were set as the “chorale” type of this genre in the Little Organ Book. Arpeggiated ascending C-major chords open (10[1])a piece in this genre that (10[1])Charles Gounod (10[1])(“sharl goo-NOH”) quoted in his setting (-5[1])of Ave Maria. Bach paired pieces in this genre (-5[1])with fugues (10[1])in his Well-Tempered Clavier. For 10 points, name this musical genre that introduces another piece of music. (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: prelude [or praeludium; accept unmeasured prelude; accept chorale prelude]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Sinecio MoralesJohns Hopkins APenn State A9310
Jeevika SetzerJohns Hopkins BHaverford A9910
Ivonne ZhouPenn AColumbia A10110
Chauncey LoColumbia BRowan A105-5
Austin GuoPrinceton APenn State B114-5
Vincent ZhangPenn BBard A11610
Rahul Rao-PothurajuRowan AColumbia B13310
Nolan KeatingLehigh ARutgers A1340
Robert WangPenn State BPrinceton A13410
Alex WongRutgers ALehigh A13410

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2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh2024-11-16Y7100%0%29%115.71
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