Round 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.” Parallel fifths evoke the ringing of church bells (15[1])“in a sweetly sonorous fog” in a piece in this genre based on a Breton myth about the Island of (*) Ys (“ees”). To open a piece in this genre, a flute chromatically descends from C-sharp to G. “The Sunken Cathedral” and “The Girl with the Flaxen Hair” are examples of, for 10 points, what pieces, one of which Claude Debussy wrote “to the Afternoon (-5[1])of a Faun?” (-5[1])■END■ (10[2])

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