Question
The obscure journal of this man’s namesake “studies” released a controversial issue in response to Philip Ewell’s essay about this music theorist’s racism. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this theorist whose method analyzes tonal music as generated from a “fundamental structure,” or Ursatz.
ANSWER: Heinrich Schenker [accept Schenkerian analysis; accept Journal of Schenkerian Studies]
[10h] This composer recently stepped down from the University of Michigan’s faculty after showing Laurence Olivier’s blackface Otello in a lecture. This composer based his Lacerations on memories of the Cultural Revolution.
ANSWER: Bright Sheng [or Shèng Zōngliàng]
[10e] This prestigious annual American music prize was only first awarded to a Black composer in 1996, when George Walker won for Lilacs. In 2018, it was controversially awarded to Kendrick Lamar’s album DAMN.
ANSWER: Pulitzer Prize for Music
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown A | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago A | Houston A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Virginia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia A | Rutgers B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Iowa State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Florida A | Indiana A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Florida B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Illinois A | MIT A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Imperial A | Johns Hopkins A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Northwestern A | NYU A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn A | Harvard A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Penn State A | Chicago C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| South Carolina A | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Claremont A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Texas A | McGill A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Purdue A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley A | North Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |