Packet 2: Tossup 9

A composer’s first piece in this genre begins with the ascending pickups “B, E, portamento into G,” each marked by a fermata, followed by two F-sharp seven chords in a dotted eighth-sixteenth rhythm. After that composer was evicted in absentia from his Parisian apartment, the scores to his last two pieces in this genre were lost. The diminutive name for this genre is popularly applied to “Lamentos” and other pieces by Pixinguinha (“PEE-shin-GEEN-ya”). Ernesto Nazareth premiered a (-5[1])classical (*) guitarist’s first of fourteen pieces in this genre. (10[1])Seven-string guitars often play the bass line in this folk genre whose bands typically contain flute and (10[1])cavaquinho (10[1]-5[1])(“ca-va-KEEN-yo”). The (-5[1])poem “Rasga o Coraçao” is set in the tenth piece in this genre by Heitor Villa-Lobos (-5[2])(“EY-tor VEE-lah LOW-boosh”). For 10 points, name this Brazilian folk genre whose name literally means “weeping.” (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[3])

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