Question
Answer the following about piano music with unusual time signature markings, for 10 points each:
[10e] This composer wrote a prelude in “12/16=2/4” (“12 16 equals 2 4”) titled The Hills of Anacapri and another in “6/4=3/2” (“6 4 equals 3 2”) titled The Sunken Cathedral, the latter inspired by the mythical submerged city of Ys.
ANSWER: Claude Debussy
[10h] This Schubert piano piece unusually uses two cut-time symbols to mark its 4/2 time signature. This piece begins with a B-flat whole note held over fluid ascending and descending sextuplets in the right hand.
ANSWER: Schubert’s Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat major [or Schubert’s Impromptu No. 3; accept Schubert’s Opus 90 No. 3 or D. 899 No. 3; prompt on partial answer]
[10m] Canons in one over square root of pi/square root of two-thirds and in e/pi time signatures are included in Studies for Player Piano by this American composer, who did much of his work from Mexico.
ANSWER: (Samuel) Conlon Nancarrow
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 8.33 | 50% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 33% | 67% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 80% | 80% | 20% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |