Packet 11: Bonus 19
Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. Note to players: Description acceptable. Although this scene’s libretto is based on its “Feuerbach” version, its composer wrote in a footnote that its music expresses the content of its “Schopenhauer” version. For 10 points each:
[10h] What scene’s conclusion quotes a leitmotif alternately named “transformation” and “redemption through love”? The fifth and final version of this scene specifies that the heartbroken Gutrune (“GOO-troo-neh”) should die rather than faint.
ANSWER: the ending of Götterdämmerung [or Brünnhilde’s Immolation Scene; accept descriptions of the destruction of Valhalla or the destruction of the Ring of the Nibelung; accept descriptions of Brünnhilde’s death; accept Act 3, Scene 3 or synonyms in place of “ending”; accept The Twilight of the Gods or the Ring Cycle or The Ring of the Nibelung or Der Ring des Nibelungen in place of “Götterdämmerung”; prompt on Ragnarök; prompt on Feuerbach ending or Schopenhauer ending; reject “Siegfried’s funeral”; reject “magic fire”]
[10m] Wagner took the idea of “redemption through love” to the extreme at the end of this opera, when Senta and her lover ascend to heaven after she commits suicide.
ANSWER: The Flying Dutchman [or Der Fliegende Holländer]
[10e] Schopenhauer’s notion of the will inspired this Wagner character’s constant yearning, which finally ceases in the “Love-Death” scene when a dissonant chord representing her lover resolves for the first time.
ANSWER: Isolde [or Iseult]
<FW, Auditory Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-11
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 20.91 | 91% | 55% | 64% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞ | https://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HE |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 50% | 100% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 0% | 100% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 67% | 50% |