Packet 11: Tossup 12

Movements titled “Longing” and “Sorrow” appear in a symphony about people of this ethnicity based on material from the unfinished opera Rashana. A “Juba dance” (15[1])replaces the conventional third-movement scherzo (15[1])in a symphony by a composer of this (15[1])ethnicity. (15[3])William Grant Still’s first symphony is titled for people (15[1])of this ethnicity. (15[1])The singing of Harry (15[1])Burleigh, a person of this ethnicity, (15[2])is mimicked by an (15[1])English horn solo in one symphony’s (*) Largo second movement. A flute melody in Antonín Dvořák’s New World (10[1])Symphony (-5[1])resembles “Swing Low, (-5[1])Sweet Chariot,” (10[2])a (10[1])spiritual written (-5[1])by people (10[2])of this ethnicity. For 10 points, people of what ethnicity participated in the Harlem Renaissance? ■END■ (10[4])

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