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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 (-5[1])of one of these pieces, a clarinet introduces an F major melody with four dotted eighth-sixteenth figures that end in (10[1])a short-long “snap” rhythm. Violins repeat the notes A, long C-sharp, (10[1])A before leaping from A (-5[1])up to E in one of these pieces. The last movement of one (-5[1])of these pieces opens with a solo flute quoting “A Mighty (10[1])Fortress Is Our God.” (10[1])One of these (10[1])pieces (10[1])ends with an A (10[1])minor saltarello and was written after a (10[2])tour of Europe that also inspired the overture The Hebrides. (10[2])For 10 points, “Scottish” (10[1])and “Italian” are nicknames of what (10[1])orchestral (-5[1])pieces (10[1])by the composer of incidental music to A Midsummer 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
Reed Sexton (UG)Michigan C (UG)CWRU A (UG)36-5
Simon Zimmerman (UG)Ohio State A (UG)Michigan State B (UG)5610
Kevin Zheng (UG)Michigan BCWRU B (UG)6710
Aditya Patnaik (DII)Ohio State B (DII)Michigan A72-5
DanielMichigan DOSU C85-5
Peter Zeng (DII)Ohio State C (DII)Pitt A9610
Andrew Stappenbeck (DII)CWRU B (UG)Michigan State B (UG)10010
Ariel FaederPitt AKenyon A (UG)10310
MatthewOSU CMichigan D10410
Vishesh Verma (DII)Michigan State APitt B (UG)10810
Elie Aoun (UG)CWRU A (UG)Michigan C (UG)11510
Todd MaslykMichigan AOhio State B (DII)11510
Rohan Navaneetha Raj (DII)Ohio State B (DII)CWRU A (UG)12510
Sarah Dong (DII)Michigan C (UG)Pitt B (UG)12510
Anton Akroush (DII)Michigan State AKenyon B (DII)12910
Shourjo Ganguli (UG)Ohio State A (UG)CWRU D (DII)13510
Biyang Zhang (UG)Michigan BKenyon A (UG)136-5
Reid Pfaltzgraff-Carlson (UG)Kenyon A (UG)Michigan B13710