Packet 9: Tossup 9

The festival “[these instruments] Alive” descends from an “Assembly” that coincided with a 1792 Bastille Day celebration. Pieces that a player of this instrument dedicated to patrons like Madame Maxwell were posthumously given the title “planxty.” (15[2])L-shaped (15[4])pins in early versions of this instrument (15[1])were said to make them “bray.” (-5[1])A nearly 19-minute medley (15[1])closes the 1972 album Renaissance of [this instrument], which fuses traditional music with rock and is by the Breton musician (*) Alan (-5[1])Stivell. A choral style named for this instrument uses (-5[1])shape-note notation. (10[3])The blind virtuoso (10[1]-5[1])Turlough (10[2]-5[1])(“TURR-lock”) O’Carolan (10[3])played (10[1])the (10[1])cláirseach (10[1])(“CLAHR-shuck”), a Celtic (-5[1])form (10[2])of this instrument. (10[2])This instrument’s “sacred” form (10[1])names an American (10[1])choral (10[1])tradition. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])Ireland’s coat of arms (10[3])features (-5[2])what instrument (10[3])with 47 (10[1])strings? ■END■ (10[5])

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