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This composer’s three song cycles setting poetry of Federico García Lorca includes Ancient Voices of Children. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this American composer whose “electric string quartet” protesting the Vietnam War begins with a “Night of the Electric Insects.”
ANSWER: George Crumb [or George Henry Crumb Jr.] (That work is Black Angels.)
[10e] Ancient Voices of Children calls for the use of a musical saw, which is a saw played with this implement. The word arco instructs string players to use this implement.
ANSWER: bow
[10h] This American composer’s Cuatro Canciones Sobre Poesias de Federico García Lorca is in a less accessible style than his more popular a cappella choral works, such as Les Chansons des Roses and his 1994 setting of “O Magnum Mysterium,” which begins with a first-inversion D-major add2 chord on the word “O.”
ANSWER: Morten Lauridsen [or Morten Johannes Lauridsen]
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TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes1815.0094%50%6%