Packet H: Bonus 9
This composer plays the viola da gamba in the only surviving image of him, from Johannes Voorhout’s painting Elegant Company Making Music. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this composer who likely used nonstandard tuning for an F-sharp minor piece written in the stylus fantasticus. This Danish-born German organist worked in Lübeck from 1668 to 1707.
ANSWER: Dieterich Buxtehude (“books-tuh-HOO-duh”) [or Diderich Hansen Buxtehude]
[10e] That F-sharp minor piece by Buxtehude is one of his nineteen works in this genre. Bach paired pieces in this genre with fugues in The Well-Tempered Clavier.
ANSWER: preludes
[10h] Buxtehude’s preludes are considered the crowning achievement of the North German organ school, which was founded by this composer. This master improviser and pedagogue was nicknamed the “Orpheus of Amsterdam.”
ANSWER: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (“SWAY-link”)
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| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | 10.69 | 51% | 50% | 6% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (North) | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| California (South) | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 5.00 | 25% | 25% | 0% |
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 12 | 10.00 | 58% | 42% | 0% |
| Florida | Main Site | ✓ | 3 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| Midwest | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 13.75 | 63% | 75% | 0% |
| Overflow | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |
| South Central | Main Site | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 0% | 100% | 0% |
| Southeast | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 10.00 | 50% | 38% | 13% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 12 | 10.00 | 50% | 33% | 17% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 17.50 | 75% | 88% | 13% |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 7.50 | 25% | 50% | 0% |