Question

This piece begins with the left hand playing a descending chain of octave A’s alternating with octave E-flats. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this one-movement piece often excerpted from the second book of Years of Pilgrimage. Its subtitle of “Fantasia quasi Sonata” is a reference to the Moonlight Sonata’s subtitle of “quasi una fantasia.”
ANSWER: Dante Sonata [or Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata; prompt on Dante; reject “Dante Symphony”]
[10e] The Dante Sonata and Dante Symphony were written by this progressive composer, who introduced the term “symphonic poem” to describe pieces like his Les préludes (“lay pray-LEWD”).
ANSWER: Franz Liszt [or Liszt Ferenc or Liszt Ferencz]
[10m] The Dante Sonata’s development is largely in this ethereal major key, whose scale includes the note E-sharp, but also B-natural. The fast section of Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 is mostly in this key.
ANSWER: F-sharp major [reject “F-sharp minor” or “F” or “G-flat”]
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Data

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Chicago AMinnesota A010010
Cornell AIndiana10101030
IllinoisIowa State10101030

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals04/21/2024Y323.33100%67%67%