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In a novel by this author, a disillusioned composer journeys from New York to the Orinoco jungle with his mistress to get inspiration from primitive instruments. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author whose forays into musicology inspired the style of New World Baroque, exemplified by his novels The Chase, Baroque Concerto, and The Lost Steps.
ANSWER: Alejo Carpentier [or Alejo Carpentier y Valmont]
[10e] Carpentier wrote a detailed study of the music of this home country of his, which also inspired work by its writers Nicolás Guillén (“ghee-YEN”) and Guillermo Cabrera Infante.
ANSWER: Cuba [or Republic of Cuba; or República de Cuba; accept Music in Cuba; accept La música en Cuba]
[10h] Baroque Concerto depicts Scarlatti and Handel meeting Vivaldi at the premiere of an opera inspired by this event. This event is retold in Álvaro Enrigue’s (“en-REE-gay’s”) hallucinatory 2024 novel You Dreamed of Empires.
ANSWER: fall of the Aztecs [or Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire; accept equivalents such as Hernán Cortés overthrowing Moctezuma or Montezuma]
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaMichigan010010E
Chicago AToronto B010010E
Columbia BUC Berkeley A010010E
Cornell AMaryland1010020ME
FloridaYale010010E
Georgia TechWaterloo B010010E
HarvardVanderbilt010010E
Illinois AChicago B1010020ME
LSENorth Carolina A010010E
MITCornell B010010E
North Carolina BArizona State010010E
NorthwesternUCF010010E
RutgersVirginia010010E
StanfordGeorgia State1010020ME
Toronto ATexas1010020ME
Toronto CNYU010010E
UC Berkeley BOhio State010010E
Virginia TechJohns Hopkins010010E
WUSTL AIllinois B010010E
Waterloo AOttawa1010020ME
Winona StateColumbia A010010E

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2112.38100%24%0%