Bonus
Composers of film and video game music often modulate to keys with a “chromatic” form of this relationship to maintain musical interest. For 10 points each:
[10h] What Latin-derived term do music theorists use to refer to the third scale degree?
ANSWER: mediant [accept chromatic mediant; reject “submediant”]
[10m] In minor-key movements in sonata form, the key of the second theme should be rooted on the mediant, giving it this relationship to the key of the first. E-flat major is this type of key with respect to C minor.
ANSWER: relative major
[10e] Chromatic mediants are associated with a style of chromaticism popularized by this German romantic composer. An enigmatic half-diminished chord recurs throughout Tristan and Isolde, an opera by this composer of The Ring Cycle.
ANSWER: Richard Wagner [or Wilhelm Richard Wagner]
<Editors, Classical Music>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 118 | 13.47 | 81% | 38% | 16% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claremont A | UCSD B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UC Santa Barbara | UCLA B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UCLA A | Claremont C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| UCLA C | Claremont B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UCLA D | UCSD A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UCLA E | UCLA F | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| USC B | UC Irvine | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | M |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 60% | 40% | 20% |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 88% | 63% | 13% |
| Northern California | US | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 86% | 57% | 14% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 80% | 20% | 80% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 89% | 56% | 22% |
| Florida | US | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 12 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 11.11 | 78% | 33% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 12 | 10.83 | 75% | 25% | 8% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 44% | 11% |
| North | US | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 12 | 11.67 | 83% | 17% | 17% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 78% | 44% | 44% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 13 | 10.77 | 69% | 23% | 15% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |