Packet 6: Bonus 6
The death of Gustav Mahler nearly caused this work’s composer to name it “The Antichrist” in reference to a Nietzsche book. For ten points each,
[10h] Name this twenty-two part tone poem, which calls for a wind machine and thunder sheet to depict a violent thunderstorm. Flutter tonguing oboe and clarinet motifs depict the bleating of sheep on a pasture in one section of this piece.
ANSWER: An Alpine Symphony [accept Eine Alpensinfonie]
[10e] This composer of An Alpine Symphony was inspired by another Nietzsche book to write his tone poem Also Sprach Zarathustra.
ANSWER: Richard Strauss
[10m] Description acceptable. In An Alpine Symphony, a distant hunting party is represented by a brass band with this characteristic. A chorus sings in this manner in the Neptune movement from Gustav Holst’s The Planets.
ANSWER: offstage [accept alternate answers of saying that players are not on stage]
<Fine Arts - Auditory, Jeffrey Xu> | VAULT II Packet 06
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | 11.14 | 73% | 30% | 9% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 50% | 17% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 33% | 33% | 33% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 5 | 8.00 | 60% | 20% | 0% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 4 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 10.00 | 80% | 20% | 0% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 15.00 | 88% | 38% | 25% |