Round 11: Tossup 9

A 2001 symphony nicknamed for this place uses a Pentecost plainsong to represent a natural event that its composer witnessed from a ship. The slow third movement of a symphony titled for this place opens with a harp glissando and soft rolls for timpani and suspended cymbal, before two flutes introduce the dyads F, A and F-sharp, G-sharp. This place provides the nickname of Peter Maxwell Davies’s Eighth Symphony. (10[2]-5[1])This place titles a symphony whose first movement opens with the progression E-flat minor, G major, A-flat minor (-5[1])and later features a chorale punctuated by bells, (-5[1])introducing (-5[1])a wordless soprano solo and women’s chorus (-5[1])under which a wind machine (10[2])plays. (10[2]-5[1])That (-5[1])symphony (-5[1])titled for this place (-5[3])was based on its (-5[1])composer’s 1948 score for a film about explorer Robert Falcon Scott. (10[1])For 10 points, Ralph Vaughan (-5[1])Williams’s (-5[1])Seventh Symphony is titled for what continent? (10[4])■END■ (10[12]0[1])

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