Round 5: 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])Eleven (10[1])timpani strikes lead into a section of this piece depicting a “Glorification of the Chosen One.” An unusually high bassoon solo begins this (10[1])piece’s (10[1])first part, “Adoration of the Earth,” which prompted Camille (10[1])Saint-Saëns (“san-SON”) to remark “if that’s a bassoon, I’m a baboon!” A girl dances herself to death (10[1])in this ballet’s (10[1])final (10[1])“Sacrificial Dance.” For 10 points, Igor Stravinsky wrote music for what ballet about pagan Russia, (10[1]-5[1])which caused a riot (10[1])at its 1913 premiere? ■END■ (0[1])

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