Packet 6: Tossup 11

An F-major rendition of “God Save the King” opens a piece in this genre written as an “Hommage” to Samuel Pickwick. A piece in this genre begins with the right hand playing descending thirds in a theme marked “without rigor” and is titled “Voiles.” (-5[2])Parallel fifths (15[1])evoke (-5[1])the ringing of church bells (15[1]-5[1])“in a (15[1])sweetly (-5[1])sonorous (15[1])fog” in a piece in this genre based on a Breton myth (-5[1])about the Island of (15[1])(*) Ys (10[2]-5[2])(“ees”). To open a piece (10[1])in this (10[1])genre, (10[1])a flute chromatically descends from C-sharp (10[2])to G. (10[3])“The (10[1])Sunken (-5[1])Cathedral” (10[1])and “The Girl with (0[1]-5[1])the Flaxen (10[1])Hair” (10[1])are examples of, for 10 points, (10[1])what (10[1])pieces, one of which Claude Debussy (10[1])wrote “to (-5[1])the (10[1])Afternoon (-5[1])of a Faun?” (10[1]-5[1])■END■ (10[14]0[10])

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