Packet 15: Bonus 3
This instrument’s steady stream of sixteenth notes permeates the chorale fantasia of Bach’s cantata Herr Christ, der Einge Gottessohn. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this modern orchestral instrument. Baroque composers sometimes used this instrument’s Italian name to refer to the flageolet.
ANSWER: piccolo [or flautino; or ottavino; or flauto piccolo; prompt on recorder by asking “what Italian term did those scores use?”; reject “flute” or “flauto”]
[10m] The piccolo is similar to this small, traditional, transverse flute. This most prominent wind instrument in colonial America often accompanied drums in military bands of the era.
ANSWER: fife
[10e] The first piccolo part ever written may have actually been written for a small recorder and is from this composer’s opera Rinaldo, which contains the aria “Lascia ch’io pianga.” He also wrote Water Music.
ANSWER: George Frederic Handel
<FW, Auditory Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-Extras
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
Conversion
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
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| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |