Packet 4: Tossup 13

Description acceptable. A mystery play titled for this event in which sibyls and anchorites sing in Greek, Latin, and German is Carl Orff’s last major work. The movement “Sea Nocturne” for this event ends George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae. A piece titled for this event features a cello solo in the E diminished (-5[1])scale (15[2])marked “infinitely slow, ecstatic,” which (-5[1])Étienne Pasquier apocryphally (-5[1])premiered on a three-stringed (15[1])instrument. (15[1])The fifth movement of a piece titled for (-5[1])this event is in the (15[1])second (*) mode of limited transposition (10[1])and was arranged from a piece (-5[2])for six (10[2])ondes (10[1]-5[1])martenots (10[2])(“OHND mar-tuh-NOH”). A (10[1])solo clarinet (10[1])plays the (10[1])“Abyss of the Birds” (10[3])movement (10[2]-5[1])of a chamber piece titled for this (10[1])event (10[1])and written (10[2])in a Nazi POW (10[1])camp for an ensemble (-5[1])of clarinet, piano, (10[1])violin, (10[1])and cello. For 10 points, name this event that titles a quartet by Olivier (10[1])Messiaen. (10[2])■END■ (10[4]0[1])

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