Packet 3: Bonus 14
In this five-minute-long work for solo piano, the composer’s note says of the meter: “12/8 only serves as a guideline, the actual metre consists of 36 quavers (three “bars”), divided asymmetrically.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this piece, marked Presto legato, ma leggiero, in which the left and right hands ascend and descend chromatically with corresponding dynamic shifts. A bell-like chord in this piece reaches a dynamic marking of eight f’s.
ANSWER: The Devil’s Staircase [or L’escalier du diable; or Der Zauberlehrling]
[10m] Composer and genre required. The Devil’s Staircase is one of these piano pieces by a late 20th-century Hungarian composer, others of which include Arc-en-ciel (“ARK-on-SYELL”) and Automne à Varsovie.
ANSWER: études by Gyorgy Ligeti [accept studies by Gyorgy Ligeti]
[10e] The tenth piece of Ligeti’s Book 2 of études has this title. A Paul Dukas (“doo-KAHSS”) piece with this title depicts enchanted broomsticks run amok and was used for a segment in Disney’s Fantasia.
ANSWER: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice [or L’apprenti sorcier]
<UCLA, Classical Music> | C. Prelims 3 - Cambridge + UCLA + Stanford B + Virginia
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 14.29 | 91% | 43% | 10% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruin | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Columbia B | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Cornell | Waterloo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Georgetown | Texas | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Harvard | Swarthmore | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Illinois B | Northwestern A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Maryland A | MIT | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Michigan | Stanford A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Brown | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| North Carolina | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern B | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Ohio State | WashU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Penn State | Minnesota | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Pittsburgh | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Purdue | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Rutgers | UCF | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Toronto B | Chicago B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | British Columbia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Vanderbilt | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| Virginia Tech | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 14.29 | 91% | 43% | 10% |