Question

For 10 points each, answer the following about deafening orchestral works involving auxiliary brass players.
[10h] This orchestral work is bookended by two fanfares that involve nine trumpets, two bass trumpets, and two tenor tubas. It contains musical portraits of a queen’s monastery and a town hall.
ANSWER: Leoš Janáček’s Sinfonietta [accept Leo Eugen Janáček in place of “Leoš Janáček”; prompt on Sinfonietta by asking “by what composer?”]
[10e] This most famous piece by Ottorino Respighi requires six players of buccine (“boo-CHEE-nay”) in its last movement, which depicts the trees along the Appian Way.
ANSWER: The Pines of Rome [or Pini di Roma]
[10m] This last tone poem by Richard Strauss (“RIKH-art SHTRAUSS”) briefly employs an offstage ensemble of 16 brass players to depict distant hunters in the forest.
ANSWER: An Alpine Symphony [or Eine Alpensinfonie]

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Chicago AStanford A010010
Chicago BWUSTL A1010020
Chicago CIndiana A010010
Columbia AMinnesota A0101020
Columbia BFlorida B1010020
Cornell ABrown A0101020
Florida ADuke A0101020
Georgia Tech BIowa State A0101020
Harvard ANorthwestern A010010
Johns Hopkins APurdue A0101020
Maryland AOhio State A010010
McGill AIllinois A010010
Minnesota BImperial A010010
Penn State ASouth Carolina A010010
Rutgers AClaremont A010010
Rutgers BMichigan A010010
Texas AMIT A010010
Toronto ANorth Carolina A010010
UC Berkeley ACornell B010010
UC Berkeley BHouston A010010
Vanderbilt ANYU A0101020
WUSTL BPenn A010010
Yale AGeorgia Tech A0101020
Yale BVirginia A010010