Question
Alfred Schnittke’s third string quartet opens with three explicitly-labeled quotations of Orlando di Lasso, Beethoven, and this motif. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this motif that ends every movement of another composer’s sixth string quartet, and begins a quartet by that composer dedicated “to the victims of fascism and war.”
ANSWER: DSCH [or D, E-flat, C, B natural; prompt on Dmitri Shostakovich’s initials or signature]
[10h] In his third string quartet, Nikolai Myaskovsky encoded a jab at Antony Lyadov, a member of this circle of composers named for a publisher and philanthropist. A quartet written collectively by this group is titled for the cryptogram B-flat, A, F.
ANSWER: Belyayev circle
[10e] The Belyayev circle influenced traditionalists like Myaskovsky, who is known as the father of this country’s symphony. This country’s regime censured modernists like Schnittke and Shostakovich.
ANSWER: USSR [or Soviet Union; or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; or CCCP; or SSSR; or Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik; prompt on Russia, Rossiya, Russian Federation, or Rossiyskaya Federatsiya]
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Summary
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Illinois C | Chicago B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Chicago D | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Indiana A | WashU A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago A | Indiana B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WashU B | Missoui S&T | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |