Question

Composers of this classical tradition imitated Western music in pieces inspired by European marching bands in Tanjore (“TAN-jore”). For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this classical tradition whose Trinity of composers includes the composer of the devotional “Five Gems.” Unlike a more improvisatory neighboring tradition, pieces in this tradition are mostly pre-composed in forms like the kriti (“KRIT-tee”).
ANSWER: Carnatic music [or Karnāṭaka saṃgīta or Karnāṭaka saṅgītam; prompt on Indian classical music]
[10e] Carnatic composer Dīkshitar’s (“DEEK-shee-ter’s”) Western-inspired Nōṭṭusvaras (“NOTE-svuh-ruhs”) include Shyāmaḷē Mīnākshi (“sh’YAH-muh-lay mee-NAHK-shee”), based on this originally-French children's song. Dīkshitar’s contemporary, Mozart, composed 12 piano variations on this nursery rhyme, which begins “C-C-G-G-A-A-G.”
ANSWER: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” [accept “Ah! vous dirai-je, maman” or “Baa Baa, Black Sheep” or “The ABC Song” or “Alphabet Song”; accept Twelve Variations on “Ah! vous dirai-je, maman” or Zwölf Variationen über das Lied “Ah! vous dirai-je, maman”]
[10m] Dīkshitar and Tyāgarāja (“TYAH-guh-rah-juh”) imitated Western music by composing in the shankarābharaṇam (“shung-kuh-rah-BUH-ruh-num”) rāga, which corresponds to this mode in Western music theory. This mode is equivalent to the major scale.
ANSWER: Ionian
<AS, Auditory Arts>

Back to bonuses

Summary

2024 ARCADIA at Duke2024-12-06Y36.6733%33%0%
2024 ARCADIA Online2025-05-17Y120.00100%0%100%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech2024-12-06Y36.6733%33%0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley2024-12-06Y220.00100%50%50%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo2024-11-09Y620.00100%67%33%
2024 ARCADIA at GT2024-12-06Y516.0080%20%60%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois2024-11-09Y417.50100%25%50%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick2024-12-06Y417.5075%50%50%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont2024-11-02Y316.67100%67%0%

Data

McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidiiCarleton A010010
Toronto AWaterloo Aspidistra0101020
Toronto Disband the Club 2k24Toronto B1010020
Toronto Chestnut Rice and KamehamehaToronto Metropolitan A10101030
Ottawa AbsolomabsolomabsolomWaterloo Basic0101020
McGill AWaterloo Cloze0101020