Round 2: Tossup 20

Tranquillo (“tran-KWEE-loh”) E-flat and bass clarinets accompany trilling flutes to open a section of this piece that depicts a round dance. In the final note of this piece, double basses play a chord whose notes spell out the word DEAD. (10[1]-5[1])Eleven timpani strikes lead into a section of this piece depicting a “Glorification of the Chosen One.” (10[1])An unusually high bassoon solo (10[1])begins this piece’s first part, (10[1])“Adoration of the Earth,” (10[1])which prompted (10[1])Camille Saint-Saëns (“san-SON”) to remark “if that’s a bassoon, I’m a baboon!” (10[1])A girl dances herself to death in (10[1])this ballet’s final “Sacrificial Dance.” For 10 points, Igor Stravinsky (10[1])wrote music for what ballet (-5[1])about pagan Russia, which caused a riot (-5[1])at its 1913 premiere? ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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