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” 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, 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 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 by Olivier Messiaen. ■END■
ANSWER: the end of time [or la fin du temps; accept equivalents like the end times or the end of the world or the apocalypse or armageddon; accept Quartet for the End of Time or Quatuor pour la fin du Temps; accept “Sea-Nocturne (for the end of time)”; accept A Play on the End of Time or De temporum fine comoedia]
<AM, Auditory Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-4
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