Round 4: 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, (-5[1])double basses play a chord whose notes spell out the word DEAD. Eleven timpani strikes lead into a section of this piece depicting a “Glorification of the Chosen One.” An unusually high bassoon solo (10[1])begins this piece’s first part, “Adoration of the Earth,” (10[1])which prompted Camille (10[1])Saint-Saëns (10[1])(“san-SON”) to remark (10[1])“if that’s a bassoon, I’m a baboon!” A girl dances herself to death in this ballet’s final “Sacrificial (10[1]-5[1])Dance.” For 10 points, Igor Stravinsky wrote music (10[1])for what ballet about pagan Russia, which caused a riot at its 1913 premiere? ■END■

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