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An unaccompanied horn solo opens a 1993 piece in this genre based on hymns and Bach chorales that reminded the composer of Abraham Lincoln. Three movements inspired by the Odyssey, such as “Immortal thread, so weak,” make up a piece in this genre (-5[1])titled Wine-Dark Sea (10[1]-5[1])by John Mackey. (10[1]-5[2])Give Us This Day is a “short” piece in this genre by David (10[1])Maslanka. (10[1]-5[1])A fugue marked “Rather broad” is the third movement of a B-flat-major piece in this genre by Paul Hindemith. It’s not a requiem, but an optional chorus appears in the martial third movement “Apotheosis” of a piece in this genre written for the tenth anniversary of the July Revolution. (-5[1])A “grande” piece in this genre subtitled “funèbre (-5[3])et triomphale” (-5[1])(“few-NEB ray tree-awn-FALL”) was written by Hector Berlioz. For 10 points, name this genre of large-scale (-5[1])music for an orchestra without strings. ■END■ (10[7]0[12])

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