Question
The first major composition of Arthur Sullivan was a set of works in this genre modeled on an earlier collection that is introduced by four sustained woodwind chords before a frenetic theme in the strings. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this genre of a set of music by Edvard Grieg that opens with a flute solo depicting a sunrise, from which two suites are often extracted.
ANSWER: incidental music [prompt on overture by asking “what is the genre of the set of works that is from?”; prompt on music written to accompany a play]
[10e] Sullivan’s The Tempest was inspired by Mendelssohn’s incidental music to this other Shakespeare play, whose main theme imitates scampering “fairy feet.”
ANSWER: A Midsummer Night’s Dream [or Ein Sommernachtstraum]
[10h] Herbert Beerbohm Tree commissioned incidental music to Othello from this composer, whose Ballade in A minor was premiered at the Three Choirs Festival. A 1900 cantata titled for a character’s “departure” completed a trilogy by this composer.
ANSWER: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
<JC, Classical Music>
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| Cambridge A | Cambridge C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Imperial B | Cambridge D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Manchester | Imperial A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford A | LSE | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Oxford B | NYU C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Sheffield | Oxford C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Southampton B | Warwick A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |