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

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