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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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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
Georgia TechChicago B1010020ME
HarvardMIT010010E
Illinois BVanderbilt010010E
IndianaNorth Carolina A010010E
Iowa StateTexas1010020ME
Johns HopkinsToronto C010010E
LSEFlorida010010E
MinnesotaVirginia Tech1010020ME
NYUUC Berkeley B010010E
NorthwesternChicago A10101030MEH
RITOhio State0000
StanfordIllinois A1010020ME
Toronto ARutgers1010020ME
UC Berkeley AWUSTL A1010020ME
UCFMichigan010010E
WUSTL BGeorgia State1010020ME
Waterloo AColumbia A1010020ME
YaleWaterloo B010010E

Summary

TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes1815.0094%50%6%