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Glenn Gould ended his TV program “Music in Our Time - Part 2: The Flight from Order” with his solo transcription of an orchestral piece in this genre, which the composer himself transcribed thrice for (10[1])piano duo, piano four-hands, and solo piano. After a falling out over his refusal to choreograph that piece in this genre, (10[1])Sergei Diaghilev (“dee-AHG-uh-leff”) challenged its composer to a duel. That composer wrote an eight-movement set of these pieces that opens with three A add9 chords over a G-D pedal. That set of pieces in this genre pays homage to an earlier composer’s D. 779 and 969 by adopting (-5[1])their adjectives. Two Schubert collections (10[1])inspired that (10[1])set of these (10[2])pieces by Maurice (10[1])Ravel, (10[1])who wrote (10[1])a poème (10[2]-5[1])chorégraphique titled for this genre. (-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])Ravel wrote “noble” and “sentimental” (10[3])examples (10[3])of (-5[1])what dance, (-5[1])whose Viennese form he parodied? (10[1])■END■ (10[5]0[1])

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