Answer the following about symphonies written in the key of E minor. For 10 points each:
[10h] This composer’s E minor first symphony was premiered in 1933 and was the first symphony by a Black woman to be performed by a major American orchestra. This composer used a juba dance in all three of her surviving symphonies.
ANSWER: Florence Price [or Florence Beatrice Price; accept Florence Smith; prompt on Smith]
[10e] Price’s inclusion of spirituals in her symphonies drew on this Czech composer’s ninth symphony, subtitled “From the New World”, which features a notable cor anglais solo in its second movement.
ANSWER: Antonín Dvořák (“duh-VORE-zhak”) [or Antonín Leopold Dvořák]
[10m] Brahms’ fourth and Tchaikovsky’s fifth symphonies, both also E minor, feature a notable moment for this instrument in their second movements. This brass instrument is typically pitched in F.
ANSWER: French horn [reject “English horn”]
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