A piece in this genre opens with rising pentatonic notes over a pedal G to depict a sunrise in a movement paired with a Danse Rustique. Mathieu Crickboom is the dedicatee of a fifth work in this genre by a composer who commissioned a G major piece in this genre from Guillaume Lekeu (“luh-KUH”). A call-and-response on the quarter notes [read slowly] “B, C-sharp, A, G-sharp, F-sharp, long E" opens the finale of a piece in this genre after a “Recitative-Fantasia.” A single “Ballade” movement is the third of (*) six pieces in this genre by a composer given one of these pieces as a wedding present by César Franck. Those works by Eugène Ysaÿe (“ee-ZYE”) quote from Bach partitas for the same instrument, which were paired with works in this genre. For 10 points, name this chamber genre scored for the smallest string instrument. ■END■
ANSWER: violin sonata [or sonata for violin and piano; or sonata for solo violin; prompt on sonata]
<Jeremy Cummings, Auditory Fine Arts>
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