Question
The most famous piece in this genre opens with lento B-flats repeated in a quarter, dotted-eighth, sixteenth, half rhythm, while the left hand alternates B-flat-F dyads with D-flat-G-flat dyads. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this genre of the third movement of Chopin’s second piano sonata.
ANSWER: funeral march [or marche funebre; or marcia funebre; prompt on march]
[10h] Ferdinand David’s funeral featured his own funeral march, originally from a concertino for this instrument. Thein designed a specially modified version of this instrument to play a near-impossible measure from Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra.
ANSWER: trombone [accept tenor trombone or bass trombone]
[10e] This composer’s Trauermarsch, from his Lieder ohne Worte, was performed at his funeral by Ignaz Moscheles. This composer wrote incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
ANSWER: Felix Mendelssohn [or Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy]
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Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 6 | 10.00 | 67% | 17% | 17% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 7.50 | 50% | 0% | 25% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 11.67 | 83% | 17% | 17% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| Chicago A | Chicago B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Illinois Orange | Illinois Blue | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Notre Dame | SIUE | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Purdue A | Purdue B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |