Question
Rising pentatonic chords resembling an organ open the sonore sans dureté (“soh-NOR sahnz doo-ray-TAY”) section of this piece. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this 1910 piano prelude inspired by a Breton legend about the lost city of Ys (“ees”) that includes the instructions “Emerging from the fog little by little.”
ANSWER: The Sunken Cathedral [or La cathédrale engloutie]
[10h] Like Debussy, this other composer used Breton legend as inspiration for an opera about Margared and Mylio, Le roi d'Ys. This composer also wrote a cello concerto in D minor with Adolphe Fischer.
ANSWER: Édouard Lalo [or Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo]
[10e] The city of Ys also inspired the second album by Joanna Newsom, who plays this instrument. This instrument with 47 strings and 7 pedals plays a glissando after the flute solo in Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.
ANSWER: harp [or concert harp]
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Summary
| 2024 ESPN @ Brown | 04/06/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 0% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Brown | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Cambridge | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Chicago | 03/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 67% | 50% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Columbia | 03/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 23.33 | 100% | 83% | 50% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Duke | 03/23/2024 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Online | 06/01/2024 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |