Bonus
A monk at this abbey named Notker the Stammerer collected several sequences in the Liber Hymnorum. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this abbey whose namesake 9th-century cantatorium is the earliest such surviving collection of chant.
ANSWER: Abbey of Saint Gall [or Abtei St. Gallen]
[10m] The St. Gall Cantatorium is also the earliest complete extant musical manuscript to use this form of musical notation. These symbols were the main way of notating pitch before the advent of staff notation.
ANSWER: neumes (“nyooms”) [accept neumatic notation]
[10e] The Hartker Antiphonary at St. Gall includes a picture of this man dictating chant to a scribe. Catholic plainchant is commonly described with the adjectival form of this man’s name.
ANSWER: Gregory I [or Gregory the Great; accept Gregorian chant]
<Classical Music>
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Conversion
Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chicago A | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Chicago B | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Columbia A | WUSTL A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Cornell B | Winona State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Georgia State | Arizona State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Harvard | Toronto C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HE |
Iowa State | Toronto B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
MIT | Cornell A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Maryland | Illinois B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Michigan | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HE |
NYU | LSE | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
North Carolina A | Illinois A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Ohio State | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Ottawa | Florida | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Penn State | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Stanford | Rutgers | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Texas | Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Toronto A | Northwestern | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
UCF | North Carolina B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Vanderbilt | RIT | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HE |
Virginia Tech | Georgia Tech | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
WUSTL B | Waterloo B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Waterloo A | Indiana | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Yale | British Columbia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 24 | 12.92 | 96% | 17% | 17% |