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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, (10[1])long C-sharp, (10[1])A before leaping (10[1])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 (10[2]-5[1])and was written after a tour of Europe that also inspired the overture The Hebrides. For 10 points, “Scottish” and “Italian” are (-5[1])nicknames (10[1])of what orchestral pieces (10[1])by the composer of incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream? (10[1])■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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