Packet 7: Tossup 2

The “organic growth” in this musical work is compared to Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit in a Benedict Taylor essay on “Music History and Self-Consciousness.” This piece’s second movement ends with a series of bizarre plagal cadences, in which a Neapolitan chord resolves to C major twice, and then an F diminished chord resolves to C, while a viola repeats a C pedal tone. This piece opens with five eighth notes ascending an E-flat arpeggio starting with the first violin’s low G. (10[1])This piece’s finale quotes “And he shall reign” from the “Hallelujah (-5[2])Chorus” (-5[1])from Handel’s (10[1])Messiah. (10[1])The composer orchestrated this piece’s scherzo to replace the minuet of his first symphony, (-5[1])written a year earlier, in 1824, at the age of 15. (10[2])For 10 points, name this piece (10[1])for double string quartet (10[5])by the composer (10[1])of the overture (10[2])to (10[1])A Midsummer Night’s (10[1])Dream. (10[1])■END■ (10[5]0[3])

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