Question
A 13th-century Old Galician collection of these pieces dedicated to the Virgin Mary is unusually attributed to the King of Castile, Alfonso X (“the tenth”). For 10 points each:
[10e] The Magnificat hymn is what kind of little religious song not taken from Psalms? In 1224, St. Francis praised “Brother Fire” in one that inspired a cello work by Sofia Gubaidulina (“goo-bye-DOO-lin-uh”) titled for one “of the Sun.”
ANSWER: canticles [or cántigas; accept Canticle of the Sun or Cántigas de Santa María or Canticles of St. Mary]
[10m] This composer’s five Canticles span his late career. He created the semi-operatic genre of “church parable” in The Burning Fiery Furnace, The Prodigal Son, and Curlew River, based on Japanese noh, with librettist William Plomer.
ANSWER: Benjamin Britten
[10h] Fauré’s young short choral work Cantique de Jean Racine won first prize at this church-music boarding school where Saint-Saëns taught André Messager. This school’s Swiss namesake took over the defunct École Choron after ending his collaboration with Rossini to revive Renaissance music in Paris.
ANSWER: École Niedermeyer de Paris [or Niedermeyer School; accept Louis Niedermeyer]
<EF/OL, Classical Music and Opera>
Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 13 | 13.08 | 100% | 31% | 0% |
Data
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| The Empire Bikes Back | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
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| Les Missourables | Lisan al-Quib | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Jeam Team | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | BHSU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| We Need New Names | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| var merchants | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |