A piece in this genre begins with the triplet motif “G, E, E” repeated in different octaves in one measure of 5/4, then a tranquillo melody in 4/4. In a piece in this genre, a 6/8 melody beginning “long A, A-sharp, G-sharp, F-sharp, E-sharp” is marked avec une céleste volupté. Nikolai Medtner’s fourteen pieces in this genre include “Night Wind.” A piece in this genre ends with a toccata in 7/8 time marked precipitato (“preh-chee-pee-TAH-toh”). A composer attempted to exorcise demons from his sixth piece in this genre by writing another that features the mystic chord. Sergei Prokofiev’s sixth, seventh, and eighth pieces in this genre express the horrors of World War II. Alexander Scriabin’s “White Mass” is a piece in this genre. For 10 points, Beethoven’s 32 pieces in what solo genre include the “Waldstein” and “Pathétique”? ■END■
ANSWER: piano sonata [prompt on sonata]
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