Question
This piece opens with the ascending eighth notes “G, C, D, E-flat,” before the soloist plays the same notes an octave down. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this violin piece whose last section, marked allegro molto vivace, pulls from Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13 and frequently uses artificial harmonics.
ANSWER: Zigeunerweisen (”zee-GOO-ner-VYE-sen”) [or Gypsy Airs; or Aires gitanos]
[10m] This Spanish composer of Zigeunerweisen wrote the Carmen Fantasy, which adds virtuosic techniques to the “Habanera.” He premiered the difficult piece Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso.
ANSWER: Pablo de Sarasate (”SAH-rah-SAH-tay”)
[10e] Though the first three sections of Zigeunerweisen are in C minor, the last section is in this minor key, the relative minor of C major.
ANSWER: A minor
<Noah Sheidlower, Auditory Fine Arts>
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