Bonus
In his Harmonielehre (“harmony-lay-ruh”), this theorist proposed splitting up a melody among multiple instruments to create a Klang·farben·melodie, or “tone-color melody.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this music theorist and author of Fundamentals of Musical Composition. His idea of “developing variation” can be found in the book Style and Idea.
ANSWER: Arnold Schoenberg
[10e] In the 1920s, Schoenberg devised his version of this technique for creating atonal music by designing a row of all pitch classes of the chromatic scale.
ANSWER: twelve-tone technique [or twelve-tone method; or twelve-tone composition; or dodecaphony; prompt on serialism or serialist]
[10h] Schoenbergian ideas remain alive in the work of this American music theorist who taught at McGill from 1978 to 2024. His 1998 book Classical Form introduces a theory of formal functions, which is the most widely taught approach to Classical form in North American academia.
ANSWER: William Caplin [or William Earl Caplin]
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Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona State | Ottawa | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| British Columbia | Georgia State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Chicago A | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Chicago B | MIT | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Columbia A | Northwestern | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Cornell A | Georgia Tech | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Cornell B | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Florida | Penn State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Harvard | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois B | Virginia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Iowa State | Minnesota | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Maryland | North Carolina B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| North Carolina A | Stanford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Ohio State | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| RIT | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Rutgers | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Texas | Toronto C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Toronto A | Waterloo A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| UC Berkeley A | Illinois A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| UC Berkeley B | LSE | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UCF | Winona State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia Tech | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| WUSTL B | Yale | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo B | NYU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 24 | 13.33 | 96% | 38% | 0% |