Question
Before dabbling in it himself, Tchaikovsky reproached this student’s “mania” for quintuple meter, as seen in his Piano Concerto in F minor’s scherzo-finale. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this composer of a lyrical Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor. He arranged part of his String Quartet No. 2, which uses two cellos, into the tribute Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky for strings.
ANSWER: Anton Arensky
[10e] Arensky taught Scriabin, who used quintuple meter or quintuplets in 28 of these 90 piano pieces. He paired one with a Nocturne for left hand, and took Chopin’s Opus 28 as a model for his cycle of these pieces in all 24 major and minor keys, Opus 11.
ANSWER: preludes
[10h] This folk dance in 5/4 time has dotted quarter notes on beats 2 and 4, and eighth notes on off-beats 3 and 5, though Sarasate’s Caprice is in 3/4. Albéniz and Guridi used this Basque dance that inspired piano trios by Turina and Ravel.
ANSWER: zortziko [or zortzico, zorcico, zortciko, or sortsiko]
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Summary
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