strings - 2026 ACF Regionals

Packet D: Bonus 12

Krzysztof Penderecki (“k’SHISH-toff pen-deh-RET-skee”) wrote for 48-piece and 52-piece ensembles of these instruments in his pieces Polymorphia and Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima. For 10 points each:

[10e] Samuel Barber adapted the slow movement of a B-flat minor chamber piece into an Adagio for what section of the orchestra?

ANSWER: strings [or string instruments; accept string orchestra; accept Adagio for Strings]

[10h] The third movement of this composer’s 1948 Concerto for String Orchestra, her most performed piece, is characteristically marked Vivo. This composer and violinist was nicknamed “The First Lady of Polish Music.”

ANSWER: Grażyna Bacewicz (“grah-ZHEE-nah bat-SEV-eech”) [or Grażyna Bacewicz Biernacka]

[10m] Critics applied this stylistic label to most of Bacewicz’s music, although she rejected it. Igor Stravinsky’s works in this style include a Concerto in D for string orchestra, his violin concerto, and the Symphony of Psalms.

ANSWER: neoclassical [or neoclassicism; accept neoclassical period]

<Oxford A, Classical Music> | Packet D - UBC B, Oxford A, Waterloo B, CWRU A

Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
69	13.33	91%	38%	4%

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Conversion

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total	Parts
Arizona State	UCSD C	10	0	0	10	E
Berkeley B	Berkeley A	10	0	0	10	E
Berkeley C	Berkeley D	10	0	0	10	E
Binghamton A	RIT	0	0	0	0
Brandeis B	Brandeis A	10	0	0	10	E
Bruin	Tennessee B	10	0	10	20	EM
Cambridge A	Southampton B	10	0	10	20	EM
Cardiff	Edinburgh A	10	0	10	20	EM
Carleton College	Iowa State	10	0	0	10	E
Central Florida A	Florida C	10	0	0	10	E
Central Florida C	Central Florida B	10	0	0	10	E
Chicago A	Illinois B	10	0	10	20	EM
Chicago B	Northwestern B	10	0	0	10	E
Chicago E	Northwestern D	0	0	0	0
Columbia A	Catholic	10	0	10	20	EM
Cornell A	Rochester	10	0	0	10	E
Cornell C	Cornell B	10	0	0	10	E
Florida A	Florida B	10	0	0	10	E
Georgetown	Vassar	10	0	10	20	EM
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech D	10	0	0	10	E
Georgia Tech C	Louisville B	10	0	0	10	E
Harvard A	Bowdoin B	10	0	0	10	E
Harvard B	Dartmouth A	10	0	0	10	E
Illinois A	Chicago C	10	0	0	10	E
Imperial B	Montpellier	10	0	0	10	E
Indiana A	Purdue A	10	0	0	10	E
Indiana C	Indiana B	0	0	0	0
James Madison A	NC State B	10	0	0	10	E
James Madison B	Duke	10	0	10	20	EM
John Jay	Columbia B	10	0	0	10	E
Liberty C	Wake Forest	10	0	0	10	E
MIT	Bowdoin A	10	0	10	20	EM
Manchester	Warwick B	10	0	10	20	EM
Maryland A	NYU C	10	0	10	20	EM
Maryland C	Rutgers B	10	0	0	10	E
Michigan State	Ohio State C	10	0	0	10	E
Minnesota A	Washington A	10	10	0	20	EH
Mississipi State	Alabama A	10	0	0	10	E
Missouri A	Claremont	10	0	10	20	EM
Murray State A	Texas B	10	0	0	10	E
NYU A	NYU B	10	10	10	30	EHM
North Carolina A	Liberty B	10	0	0	10	E
North Carolina C	VCU	10	0	0	10	E
Northwestern C	Notre Dame B	10	0	0	10	E
Notre Dame A	Chicago D	10	0	10	20	EM
Ohio State A	Michigan B	10	0	10	20	EM
Ohio State B	Michigan C	10	0	10	20	EM
Oxford C	Birmingham	0	0	0	0
Penn State	Binghamton B	10	0	10	20	EM
Pittsburgh	Michigan A	10	0	10	20	EM
Purdue B	Illinois C	10	0	0	10	E
Rutgers A	Johns Hopkins A	10	0	0	10	E
Southampton A	Warwick A	10	0	10	20	EM
Southern Connecticut State	Brown	10	0	10	20	EM
Stanford B	Stanford A	10	0	10	20	EM
Swarthmore	Maryland B	10	0	0	10	E
Tennessee A	Alabama B	0	0	0	0
Texas A	Texas A&M A	10	0	10	20	EM
UC Santa Barbara	UCLA B	10	0	10	20	EM
UCLA A	UCSD B	10	0	0	10	E
UCSD A	UC Irvine	10	0	0	10	E
Virginia	North Carolina B	10	0	10	20	EM
Virginia Tech A	South Carolina B	10	0	0	10	E
Virginia Tech B	Liberty A	10	0	0	10	E
WashU A	Sewanee	10	0	10	20	EM
WashU B	Louisville A	10	0	10	20	EM
Washington B	Missouri B	10	0	10	20	EM
William and Mary	NC State A	0	10	0	10	H
Yale	Dartmouth B	10	0	0	10	E

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Match	Heard	PPB	E %	M %	H %
California (North)	Main Site	✓	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	✓	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Florida	Main Site	✓	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	✓	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	9	12.22	89%	22%	11%
Midwest	Main Site	✓	9	10.00	78%	22%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	✓	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	✓	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
South Central	Main Site	✓	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	✓	7	12.86	86%	43%	0%
UK	Main Site	✓	6	15.00	83%	67%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	✓	8	16.25	100%	50%	13%
Upstate NY	Main Site	✓	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%