“Mercury, the Winged Messenger” - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

This orchestral movement includes a six-bar passage in which a celesta solo is accompanied by the second harp and one desk each of first violins, second violins, and violas. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this orchestral third movement, a 6/8-time Vivace with passages in dual 2/4 time. In this movement, half of the strings scored in B-flat while the other half is scored in A.

ANSWER: “Mercury, the Winged Messenger” [accept “the Winged Messenger”; prompt on The Planets; reject “Hermes”]

[10e] After solo passages in “Mercury,” the score uses this Italian musical term, which instructs the orchestra to play together again.

ANSWER: tutti (“TOOT-tee”) [reject word forms such as “tutte”]

[10m] “Mercury” ends with violins using this technique to play a very high E, held for 13 bars. This technique is indicated either by a circle over a note or a diamond notehead.

ANSWER: harmonics [accept natural harmonics or artificial harmonics; reject “harmony” or word forms]

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Data

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total
Arizona State	Rutgers	0	0	0	0
Berkeley A	Maryland	0	10	10	20
Berkeley B	McGill	0	0	0	0
Brown	Michigan	0	10	10	20
Chicago C	Chicago D	0	0	0	0
Claremont Colleges	Virginia	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Indiana	10	10	10	30
Cornell A	Purdue	0	10	10	20
Cornell B	Vanderbilt	0	0	0	0
Florida	Duke	0	0	0	0
Illinois	Toronto A	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins	Georgia Tech	0	10	10	20
Minnesota A	Waterloo	10	0	10	20
Minnesota B	Kentucky	0	0	0	0
NYU	Iowa State	0	0	10	10
North Carolina A	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	Truman State	0	10	10	20
South Carolina	Harvard	0	0	0	0
Stanford	Chicago A	0	0	0	0
Texas	WUSTL A	0	0	0	0
Toronto B	Ottawa	0	10	10	20
WUSTL B	Penn	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Northwestern	0	0	0	0
Yale B	Columbia B	0	0	10	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	24	10.42	46%	50%	8%