harpsichord - 2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite

Question

Yekaterina Sinyavina, who played at the court of Catherine II, wrote mostly lost sonatas for this instrument during the Classical era. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this instrument also played by the court musician Dmitry Bortniansky during Catherine the Great's reign. This plucked-string keyboard instrument was a predecessor to the piano in the Baroque era.

ANSWER: harpsichord

[10h] During the Russian Classical era, Bortniansky and peers like Artemy Vedel wrote so-called “concertos” using pieces in this genre based on the Valaam or Znamenny (“zeh-NAH-meh-nee tradition”). The Obikhod is a collection of pieces in this genre.

ANSWER: chants [or liturgical chants; prompt on choral concertos]

[10m] Maxim Berezovsky, one of the “Golden Three” Russian Classical composers, wrote Russia's first opera and piece in this genre. A set of 15 Heinrich Biber pieces in this genre, named for the rosary, features a copper-engraved religious poem.

ANSWER: violin sonata [prompt on sonata]

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Summary


2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley	11/02/2024	Y	2	15.00	100%	0%	50%
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU	11/02/2024	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago	11/02/2024	Y	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%
2024 Penn Bowl Florida	10/26/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard	10/26/2024	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite	11/02/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Texas	11/02/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl UK	10/26/2024	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl UNC	10/26/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Playtest	10/12/2024	N	4	20.00	100%	25%	75%

Data


NYU A	Columbia	10	10
Princeton	NYU B	10	10
JHU B	Maryland	10	10