Packet K: Tossup 17

A piece in this genre begins with the triplet motif “G, E, E” repeated in different octaves in one measure of 5/4, then a tranquillo melody in 4/4. In a piece in this genre, a 6/8 melody beginning “long A, (10[1])A-sharp, G-sharp, F-sharp, E-sharp” is marked avec une céleste (-5[1])volupté. Nikolai Medtner’s fourteen pieces in this genre (10[2])include “Night Wind.” (10[3]-5[3])A piece in this (10[1])genre ends with a toccata in 7/8 time marked precipitato (10[1])(“preh-chee-pee-TAH-toh”). A composer attempted to exorcise demons (10[1])from his sixth (10[1])piece in this genre (-5[1])by writing another (10[1])that features the mystic chord. (10[3]-5[2])Sergei (10[1]-5[1])Prokofiev’s (10[1])sixth, seventh, and eighth (10[1]-5[1])pieces (10[3])in this genre (10[1])express the horrors (-5[1])of World War II. (-5[2])Alexander Scriabin’s “White Mass” is a piece in this genre. For 10 points, (10[1])Beethoven’s 32 pieces in what solo genre include the “Waldstein” (10[1])and (10[2])“Pathétique”? (10[1]0[1]-5[1])■END■ (10[23]0[15])

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