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Answer the following about the Italian musical marking “Bizarria,” for 10 points each.
[10m] Baroque composer Francesco Antonio Bonporti wrote a piece that pairs the term “Bizarria” with this dance that is usually in a compound meter, such as 6/8 or 12/8. Baroque dance suites traditionally conclude with one of these dances.
ANSWER: gigue (“zheeg”) [or giga; or jig]
[10h] A G-major trio sonata marked “Bizarria” concludes this composer’s Opus 5. This composer’s Opus 3 is a series of 12 violin concertos that have capricci in each of their outer movements.
ANSWER: Pietro Antonio Locatelli (The Opus 3 is L’Arte del violono.)
[10e] A later Italian composer, Muzio Clementi, used the marking “Bizzarria” with two Z’s for one of the 100 of these pieces in his collection Gradus ad Parnassum. Czerny’s The School of Velocity consists of these technical exercises.
ANSWER: etudes [or studies; or study]
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Chicago AToronto A001010E
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Georgia StateLSE001010E
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Iowa StateJohns Hopkins001010E
MinnesotaGeorgia Tech001010E
North Carolina BMichigan001010E
NorthwesternNorth Carolina A1001020ME
Penn StateOttawa001010E
RITWinona State001010E
TexasMIT1001020ME
Toronto BToronto C1001020ME
UC Berkeley BYale001010E
VanderbiltUCF0000
VirginiaMaryland001010E
Virginia TechHarvard001010E
WUSTL AStanford001010E
WUSTL BArizona State001010E
Waterloo ARutgers1001020ME
Waterloo BFlorida001010E

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2025 ACF NationalsYes2412.9296%33%0%