Packet 4: Bonus 4

This technique’s first notated use is in Engelbert Humperdinck’s melodrama Königskinder (“KURR-nigs-kin-dur”). For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this technique that a composer first used in Pierrot lunaire (“p’yair-OH loo-NAIR”), where it was represented by notes with x’s in their stems, before he graduated to clefless notation in A Survivor in Warsaw.
ANSWER: Sprechstimme (“SHPRECK-shtim-uh”) [or Sprechgesang (“SHPRECK-guh-zong”); prompt on speech-song or speak-singing]
[10e] This Austrian composer and founder of the Second Viennese School wrote the aforementioned pieces Pierrot lunaire and A Survivor in Warsaw.
ANSWER: Arnold Schoenberg
[10h] A Survivor in Warsaw uses Sprechstimme until the very end, when a chorus uses conventional singing to perform this pre-existing text.
ANSWER: Shema Yisrael (“sh’MAH yees-rah-EL”) [or Shema Yisroel; or the Shema; or “Hear, O Israel”]
<Minnesota, Classical Music> | D. Prelims 4 - Toronto B + Harvard + Michigan + Minnesota

HeardPPBE %M %H %
2120.48100%81%24%

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
British ColumbiaColumbia A1010020ME
BrownJohns Hopkins1010020ME
BruinChicago B10101030MEH
CambridgeUCF1010020ME
CornellMaryland A010010E
GeorgetownOhio State10101030MEH
Georgia Tech BPenn State1010020ME
Georgia Tech CIllinois B010010E
Illinois ANorthwestern B010010E
IndianaPittsburgh10101030MEH
NYU AVanderbilt10101030MEH
NYU BColumbia B1010020ME
Northwestern AStanford A10101030MEH
SwarthmoreGeorgia Tech A1010020ME
UC Berkeley ANorth Carolina1010020ME
UC Berkeley BStanford B1010020ME
UCLAToronto A1010020ME
VirginiaRutgers1010020ME
Virginia TechMaryland B010010E
WashUTexas1010020ME
WaterlooMIT1010020ME

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2120.48100%81%24%