Question
The Renaissance composer Gioseffo Zarlino was one of the first to strictly distinguish this genre from a related form he simply called “imitation.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this genre of a one-movement sonata whose theme was legendarily inspired by the cat Pulcinella. The ends of these compositions may use techniques like stretto and diminution.
ANSWER: fugue
[10e] The Cat Fugue is the 30th in a set of 555 keyboard sonatas by a composer with this surname and first name Domenico. His father with this surname was a leading figure of the Neapolitan school of opera.
ANSWER: Scarlatti [accept Domenico Scarlatti or Alessandro Scarlatti]
[10h] The Cat Fugue is number 30 in a chronological catalog of Scarlatti sonatas named for this Yale musicologist, which largely replaced the more comprehensive Longo numbers.
ANSWER: Ralph Kirkpatrick [prompt on K.]
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