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Question

Composers of film and video game music often modulate to keys with a “chromatic” form of this relationship to maintain musical interest. For 10 points each:

[10h] What Latin-derived term do music theorists use to refer to the third scale degree?

ANSWER: mediant [accept chromatic mediant; reject “submediant”]

[10m] In minor-key movements in sonata form, the key of the second theme should be rooted on the mediant, giving it this relationship to the key of the first. E-flat major is this type of key with respect to C minor.

ANSWER: relative major

[10e] Chromatic mediants are associated with a style of chromaticism popularized by this German romantic composer. An enigmatic half-diminished chord recurs throughout Tristan and Isolde, an opera by this composer of The Ring Cycle.

ANSWER: Richard Wagner [or Wilhelm Richard Wagner]

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Northern California	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	15.71	86%	57%	14%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	18.00	80%	20%	80%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	16.67	89%	56%	22%
Florida	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	11.11	78%	33%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	10.83	75%	25%	8%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	15.56	100%	44%	11%
North	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	11.67	83%	17%	17%
Pacific	Main	Y	9	16.67	78%	44%	44%
South Central	Main	Y	4	12.50	75%	25%	25%
Southeast	Main	Y	13	10.77	69%	23%	15%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	12.00	60%	40%	20%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	16.25	88%	63%	13%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%

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Cornell C	Binghamton C	10	10	20
RIT A	Cornell D	10	10	20
Rochester	Cornell B	0	10	10
Cornell A	Binghamton A	10	10	20
ESF	Binghamton B	0	10	10