Question
Per Nørgård recalled how he snuck one of this composer’s scores into a stack of student compositions he was reviewing with György Ligeti. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this early 20th-century Danish composer who utilized slow-moving cluster textures, as well as an entire offstage orchestra, to depict heaven in his Music of the Spheres.
ANSWER: Rued Langgaard [or Rud Immanuel Langgaard]
[10e] Music of the Spheres includes a “glissando” version of this instrument, which used similar techniques to Henry Cowell’s The Banshee. Cowell’s piece inspired John Cage to develop the concept of “preparing” this instrument.
ANSWER: piano [or pianoforte; accept prepared piano]
[10m] This French composer used a slightly evolved version of tone-clusters in his conception of “organized sound” using “sound-masses,” which he employed in works like Hyperprism and Ameriques.
ANSWER: Edgard Varèse [or Edgar Varèse; Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse]
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago C | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont A | McGill A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | Duke A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Florida A | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Florida B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MIT A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A | Brown A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Purdue A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Harvard A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Virginia A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |