Question
Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire is scored for a reciter accompanied by these five instruments that is now standardly called a “Pierrot ensemble,” which may be augmented by percussion. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name the five instruments in a Pierrot ensemble, not counting doublings or the soprano voice. You have 10 seconds.
ANSWER: flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano [accept in any order; accept flute, clarinet, and piano trio]
[10e] A wind quintet is made up of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and this instrument, despite it not being a woodwind. Barry Tuckwell, Dennis Brain, and Richard Strauss’s father Franz played this brass instrument.
ANSWER: French horn
[10m] This mixed-race British composer of an early clarinet quintet and Opus 1 piano quintet influenced by Dvořák died young after three US tours. His secular cantata Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast became a hit on the scale of Handel’s Messiah.
ANSWER: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor [prompt on Samuel Coleridge Taylor; reject “Samuel Taylor Coleridge”]
<OL, Classical Music and Opera>
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