Africa - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

There survives a 1904 recording of Saint-Saëns playing his own Opus 89 fantasy titled for this location. For 10 points each:

[10h] Identify this location whose namesake style of polyrhythmic percussive pianism, which developed in the late 20th century, titles a 2022 album by Rebeca Omordia.

ANSWER: Africa [accept African pianism]

[10m] Omordia’s African Pianism opens with a piece in this form based on Egun melodies. This is the form of Frederic Rzewski’s (“ZHEFF-skee’s”) The People United Will Never Be Defeated!, which is based on a Chilean protest song.

ANSWER: theme and variations [accept Egun Variations; reject “variation”]

[10e] A visit to Ghana inspired this Western minimalist composer’s piece Drumming, in which a 12/8 (“twelve-eight”) ostinato phases in and out of rhythm. He used similar techniques in Clapping Music and It’s Gonna Rain.

ANSWER: Steve Reich [or Stephen Michael Reich]

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Data

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

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	19	16.32	90%	58%	16%