Packet 5: Bonus 4
For 10 points each, answer the following about the work of avant-garde composer George Crumb.
[10m] Crumb depicted “black angels” in an “electric” work of this type. Dimitri Shostakovich’s Eighth work of this type is dedicated to the “victims of fascism of war.”
ANSWER: string quartet
[10e] Crumb created a spiral-shaped score for his work Makrokosmos, whose title riffs on this composer’s piano suite Mikrokosmos. This Hungarian composer wrote Concerto for Orchestra and The Miraculous Mandarin.
ANSWER: Bela Bartok
[10h] The last movement of Crumb’s whalesong-inspired piece, Vox Balaenae, is named for this time period. This specific phrase appears in the title of another string quartet that contains the movement “Abyss of Birds.”
ANSWER: the End of Time [accept Quartet for the End of Time; accept Quatour pour la fin du temps]
<Fine Arts - Auditory, Jeffrey Xu> | VAULT II Packet 05
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44 | 12.95 | 64% | 41% | 25% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Brown Ballers | Don't Ever Take Sides Against the Family | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heauton Timorumenos | Albanian Rift in the Sky | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Leif Eriksen's Striking Appearance | Always Set the Kurve | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Taman's Nepo Babies | Midnight Bus to Vista | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| With Less Than 2 Years of Combined Quizbowl Experience | whatever | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 2 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 33% | 33% | 33% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 4 | 2.50 | 25% | 0% | 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 | 12.50 | 50% | 75% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 75% | 50% | 50% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 5 | 6.00 | 40% | 20% | 0% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 8 | 23.75 | 100% | 63% | 75% |