Question
Handel uses this device in Messiah’s “Ev’ry valley shall be exalted,” setting words like “mountain,” “low,” and “crooked” to melodic peaks, troughs, and uneven notes. For 10 points each:
[10m] Composers evoke lyrics’ literal meaning in what technique seen in 16th-century Italian or English madrigals? Despite mastering it like Purcell, Thomas Campion critiqued this two-word effect, later used in the Embroidery Aria.
ANSWER: word painting [accept tone painting or text painting; prompt on madrigalisms]
[10h] In the Cold Song from this Restoration spectacular by Purcell and Dryden, tremors on each note depict shivering. This semi-opera with spoken main roles and supernatural masques inspired Michael Nyman’s Chasing Sheep.
ANSWER: King Arthur [or King Arthur, or The British Worthy] (The Cold Song is also known as the Frost Scene.)
[10e] Nyman’s raspy An Eye for Optical Theory loops a C minor piece with this title attributed to Purcell or William Croft. The descending “lament bass” in “When I am laid in earth” is a repeating ostinato known by this English word.
ANSWER: ground [accept ground bass; accept Ground in C minor, Z. 221; accept “Two in One upon a Ground” or “Three Parts upon a Ground”; reject “round”]
<OL, Classical Music and Opera>
Summary
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Data
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| We Need New Names | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Punished "Venom" BHSU | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Empire Bikes Back | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Jeam Team | var merchants | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |