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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. (-5[1])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. Violins (10[1])repeat the notes A, long C-sharp, A (10[1])before leaping from A up to E (10[1])in one of these pieces. The last movement of one of these pieces opens with a solo flute quoting “A Mighty Fortress (10[1])Is Our God.” One of these pieces ends with an A minor saltarello (-5[1])and was written after a tour of Europe (10[1])that also inspired the overture The Hebrides. (10[1])For 10 points, “Scottish” (10[1])and “Italian” (10[1])are nicknames of what orchestral pieces by the composer of incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream? ■END■ (0[2])

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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Benedykt Chodzko-ZajkoSouthampton BEdinburgh33-5
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Sarah HendersonCambridge CBristol B7510
Eveline OngOxford AWarwick A9710
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Kevin FlanaganBristol ADurham B12510
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