Protobowl- Fine Arts

Nocturnes

A composition of this musical form by Liszt was entitled "While dreaming." Mozart's K.286 in D major was one of these pieces for four orchestras, while Schubert's Piano Trio Opus 148 in E-flat, marked "Adagio," is an example of this form. Other examples include Debussy's "Clouds," "Festivals," and "Sirens", while this musical form was pioneered by John Field. Often featuring a melody over an arpeggiated accompaniment and usually written for solo piano, 21 of these compositions were written by Chopin. For 10 points, name this form of musical composition evocative of the night.

The Arnolfini Wedding

A figurine of Saint Margaret emerges from a dragon in this work. A single lit candle appears on a chandelier at the top of this painting, and a table on the left holds three fruits while another sits on the windowsill. A pair of wooden clogs and a brown dog are near the bottom of this painting, which also features a convex mirror showing the artist and a priest. A large, red bed is on the right of the two main figures. The man wears a fur-trimmed coat while the woman wears a green dress. For ten points, name this portrait of an Italian merchant and his wife, by Jan van Eyck.

Guernica

A tapestry copy of this painting in the New York UN building was temporarily covered with a blue curtain, and this work was exhibited with a poem by Paul Eluard. A soldier holding a broken sword lies at the bottom of this painting with a flower in his hand while a ghostly woman reaches in from a window holding a (*) candle. It depicts a market day and a light bulb in the form of an eye along with a woman grieving over her child. A bull with smoke for a tail and a screaming horse being pierced with a spear appear at the left of this painting. For 10 points, Pablo Picasso painted what mural in response to the bombing of a Basque town?

Grant Wood

A visit to Munich caused him to be influenced by the Neue Sachlichkeit, or the New Objectivity or Sobriety Movement, as evidenced by the often dour faces in such works as 1929's Woman with Plants. An image of George Washington and a mangled cherry tree is found in Parson Weems' Fable, and his work Arbor Day is on the reverse of the Iowa State Quarter. His sister Nan and his dentist were the models of his most famous work, featuring a stern-faced couple standing in front of a farmouse. For 10 points name this painter of American Gothic.

Aaron Copland

An E-C-D sharp-C sharp motif is the "seed" of this composer's Piano Variations, and a cadenza links the two movements of his Clarinet Concerto. This composer used the songs "El Palo Verde" and "El Mosco" in El Salon Mexico, and one of his ballets includes the section(*) "Buckaroo Holiday." Another quotes the Shaker hymn "Simple Gifts" and was choreographed by Martha Graham. For 10 points, name this American composer of Fanfare for the Common Man, Appalachian Spring, and a work which includes the "Hoedown," Rodeo.

Doctor Faustus

An opera by Busoni based on this subject was left incomplete at his death but was recently completed. Liszt composed a three-movement symphony based on this subject, with each movement a programmatic description of one of the three major characters. The best known musical example of this work is known for its "Jewel Song" and its Soldier's Chorus, "Gloire, immortelle de nos aieux!" That opera was composed by Charles Gounod. Identify this legend of a medieval scholar who sells his soul to the devil in return for his youth.

Tango

Antonio Todaro was an influential teacher of this dance during a revival in its popularity in the mid-1980's. Early styles of this dance include orillero (or-ree-YER-oh), cayengue (kah-YEN-"gay"), and salon. A later style of this dance, milonguero, was named after the milongas at which this dance is performed socially. The American version of this dance is most regularly in 2/4 ("two"-"four") time and employs a (*) slow-slow-quick-quick-slow step sequence. For 10 points, name this ballroom dance that evolved in Argentina.

(Edward) Benjamin Britten

Arvo Pärt ["pair"t] composed a cantus in memory of this man, who used the song "Come, Heavy Sleep" as the basis of his guitar piece Nocturnal after John Dowland. Pan, Phaeton, and Narcissus are three of the parts of his solo oboe piece Six Metamorphoses after Ovid. This composer adapted a theme from Henry Purcell's Abdelazar for a work that was commissioned to be part of an educational documentary demonstrating the abilities of various instruments. This composer also wrote an opera about a fisherman accused of murder, Peter Grimes. Name this English composer of The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.

Igor Stravinsky

At 15, he finished a piano reduction of one of Alexander Glazunov's string quartets. A brief cantata dedicated to Debussy was deemed unperformanble due to its bitonality, and his final work is a simple setting of an Edward Lear poem featuring a "pea-green boat". This composer of "Zvezdolili" and "The Owl And The Pussy-Cat" collaborated with Balanchine on Apollon Musagete, and with Diaghilev on several other ballets, one of which introduced a namesake chord and another in which Ivan breaks the egg containing the soul of King Katschei. For 10 points, identify this Russian composer of Petrushka, The Firebird, and The Rite of Spring.

I and the Village

At the bottom center of this painting, a tree that appears to be glowing is grasped in the hand of one of the central figures. Its left hand side shows a woman milking a goat, while two more people, a farmer in black holding a scythe and a woman playing a violin, appear near the top. That woman, as well as two different colored houses, is upside-down. Meant to be a depiction of the artist's hometown of Vitebsk, this painting's main image is one of a green skinned man looking into the face of an animal. For 10 points, name this painting by Marc Chagall.

[Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco] Verdi

At the end of one of this composer's operas, the idol of Baal shatters and the titular king of Babylon frees some Jews. This composer's second opera features a group of gypsies in the Anvil Chorus and a quarrel between Manrico and the Count di Luna, who fights over the heart of Leonora. Another opera by this composer sees the daughter of the titular character killed by Sparafucile, whose purpose is to murder a duke who sings La Donna e Mobile. At the heart of another opera by him is the ill-fated love between a soldier named Radamses and an Ethiopian princess. For 10 points, name this composer of Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, and Aida.

Sonata

Charles Ives wrote a work of this kind that included movements named after transcendentalists like Emerson and Thoreau. Dominico Scarlatti wrote 555 of them for the harpsichord. Another work of this kind, which contains exposition and recapitulation segments, opens with fortissimo B-flat major chords. In addition to ones named (*) "Concord" and "Hammerklavier," another work of this type was written in C-sharp minor and was subtitled "quasi una fantasia" in another musical piece. Ludwig Rellstab coined that work's name, which was inspired by a reflection on Lake Lucerne. For ten points, identify this kind of musical composition, a "Moonlight" one of which was composed by Beethoven.

J.S. Bach

Excerpts from this composer's cantatas include "Sheep May Safely Graze." This composer created six English Suites for harpsichord, and composed educational pieces such as fifteen Two-Part Inventions. His vocal pieces include the St. Matthew Passion, and his mastery of counterpoint can be seen in The Art of the Fugue. Glenn Gould specialized in recording the works of this composer, especially his Goldberg Variations. For 10 points, name this German composer of The Well-Tempered Clavier and the Brandenburg Concertos.

Symphony from the New World

Harry Burleigh's "Goin' Home" is based on this piece's Largo movement. It features a nine-note leitmotif first heard in the horns, and it is known for its deliberate use of the pentatonic scale. Originally titled "Legend," the second movement features an English horn solo and portrays a funeral march. That movement was inspired by The Song of Hiawatha, and its other movements incorporate such tunes as "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." Czech melodies complement the American influences on, For 10 points, what symphony written in New York by Antonín Dvo?ák?

Louis Henri Sullivan

He criticized Daniel Burnham for that man's classicism and designed the modernist Transportation Building for the Columbian Exposition. His other buildings in Chicago include the Carson Pirie Scott department store and the Auditorium Building for Roosevelt University, and he worked with Dankmer Adler on his most famous project, a red, ten-story skyscraper in St. Louis. Coining the phrase "form follows function," for 10 points, identify this American architect, mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright and designer of the Wainwright building, the father of skyscrapers.

Georges Seurat

He studied with the sculptor Justin Lequien and after a few years of study at Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Brest Military Academy finished his first painting Bathing at Asnieres. After this work was rejected by the Paris Salon, he allied with independent Parisian artists, sharing with Paul Signac his ideas regarding pointillism. For ten points, who is this artist best known for Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte?

Le Corbusier [accept Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris]

His early creations included a building whose name was a pun on Citroën car models, the Citrohan House, and this man brainstormed a scheme for a "Contemporary City" for three million people. He coined the phrase "machines for living" in reference to houses, and the section "Eyes Which Do Not See" appears in his essay collection in which he outlined five major points, Towards A New Architecture. This architect is known for building a church with an upturned roof in Ronchamp and a building typifying the International Style and made of reinforced concrete. For 10 points, identify this Swiss-French architect of Notre Dame du Haut and the Villa Savoye.

Monet

His early works include Flowering Garden at Sainte-Adresse and a portrait of his son on a hobbyhorse. He painted his wife and child outside in the sun in Woman with a Parasol, but he is better known for a painting of some boats on a lake near the town where he lived briefly in Argenteuil. For several months he worked on many canvases at once, choosing to develop one of several works in progress based on how the light caught several Haystacks. For 10 points, identify this French artist who painted a series of around two hundred fifty oils of Water-Lilies, in addition to Impression, Sunrise.

Winslow Homer

His journey to the Adirondacks inspired a painting where an old man points forward while standing next to a man in a red shirt called Two Guides. He painted two men in grey hats staring at their sextants in his work Eight Bells which was based on earlier works he made at Prout's Neck, Maine. He depicted children playing an outdoor game in his work Snap the Whip and the word "Gloucester" is seen across a "catboat" in his work Breezing Up. His most famous work depicts a three-masted ship in the distant horizon as a black sailor lies on a tilted boat surrounded by sharks. For 10 points, name this painter of The Gulf Stream, an American artist famous for his seascapes.

Swan Lake

In Act I of this work, the protagonist's tutor gets drunk and completely misses when he tries to kiss a dancing village girl. That tutor, Wolfgang, accompanies the protagonist along with Benno von Sommerstern in celebrating his birthday, only to have the Princess-Mother come in and scold her son about his riotous living. The three proceed to go on a hunt, where the protagonist falls in love, only to later pledge his love to an evil double, Odile, who is the evil von Rothbart's daughter. For 10 points, name this work featuring Prince Siegfried and Odette, who dive into the titular locale and die once they realize they cannot be together in life, a ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

El Greco [or Domenicos Theotokopolous]

In one of this artist's paintings, a naked two-headed woman stands on a rocky outcropping next to an old man and his two sons, who are being attacked by snakes. That painting, Laocoon, shares a similar dark sky with his painting St. Martin and the Beggar. In another of his paintings, a line of faces divides a funeral procession from heaven, where angels assist the title character's soul as it ascends to Jesus. He depicted the white buildings of his native city in his View of Toledo. For 10 points, name this painter of The Burial of Count Orgaz, a Spanish Mannerist born on Crete.

Delacroix

In one of this artist's works, a man in a red robe and orange turban carries a staff as a white-robed woman wears a crown and stretches her arms out. This painter also depicted three females sitting on a mat as they are served by their black servant. In another work by this painter of (*) Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, a king watches as his concubines are killed. His most famous piece includes a man in a top hat carrying a musket. For 10 points, name this French Romantic artist of The Women of Algiers and The Death of Sardanapalus who depicted a bare-breasted woman waving a flag in Liberty Leading the People.

Géricault

In one painting by this artist, a man in blue raises his riding crop while the legs of four racing horses are in an impossible position. In another painting, a white-bonneted woman gazes creepily to the left of the viewer with red-rimmed eyes. This artist of Insane Woman and The Derby of Epsom painted a Napoleonic cavalry officer swinging his sword while turned around on a horse in his The (*) Charging Chasseur, but he is better-known for a work in which a black man waves for help while balanced on a pile of survivors of a Mauritanian shipwreck. For ten points, name this French painter of The Raft of the Medusa.

Sistine Chapel

In one painting in this building, a hailstorm appears above the titular body of water in Rosselli's The Crossing of the Red Sea. This building includes a work featuring a twisting pagan prophetess who holds up a large green book; that figure is the Libyan Sibyl. It also includes a phenomenal demonstration of anatomical understanding in a work depicting two figures touching (*) fingers, while the most famous work in it includes a depiction of some figures crossing the River Styx during the end of times. For 10 points, identify this structure located in Vatican City, whose ceiling includes The Last Judgment and was painted by Michelangelo.

The Isenheim Altarpiece

In one section of this work, an ankylosaurus-like creature sits near a sore-covered figure with a distended belly who may represent an ergotism sufferer. In other sections of this painting, a pointing man stands next to the words "illum oportet crescere me autem minui" and a monster peeks through a window at a man atop a pedestal. The middle of another of its sections features a concert of (*) disturbing angels to the left of the Nativity. Sculptures by Nikolaus Hagenauer are contained within its two sets of wings, which display the Crucifixion when closed and the Temptation of St. Anthony when fully open. For 10 points, name this altarpiece whose creation inspired an opera and symphony by Paul Hindemith, the most famous work of Matthias Grünewald.

Sandro Botticelli

In one work by this painter, a satyr's head is covered by a large helmet, while three other satyrs play with war equipments around Venus and Mars. His only signed work features rocky walls and a path zigzagging below a roof and a circle of dancing angels. That painting, influenced by (*) Savonarola, is The Mystical Nativity. His most famous work, collected in the Uffizi Gallery, features Zephyr carrying Chloris and blowing the title character standing on a shell. For 10 points, what "Little Barrel" painted Primavera and The Birth of Venus?

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte or [Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte]

In the background of this painting, four people in white are rowing a boat headed by a man in blue. A man with a top hat holds a cane while staring out to the left, and a man in a rowing shirt smokes a pipe next to a brown dog while two soldiers facing away can be seen in the back of this painting. In this painting, two ladies sit on the ground, one with a blue [*] umbrella, the other holding flowers, and in the background are several boats sailing in the river. On the right, a woman holding an umbrella holds a monkey on a leash. For 10 points, name this pointillist painting that depicts people relaxing on the banks of the Seine by Georges Seurat.

Brueghel

In the right of one of this man's paintings, spoked wheels with men attached are mounted upon poles, and a grotesquely stretched man hangs with head lodged between the limbs of a tree. In another painting by this artist, a knife hangs out a window above a card-player while a nearby man bites a pillar and someone defecates out of a window. In this artist's most famous work, a farmer plows and a ship passes by without (*) noticing the splashing legs of the drowning mythical figure. For ten points, identify this Flemish artist of The Triumph of Death, Netherlandish Proverbs, and Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.

Fidelio

In this opera, several characters sing "Adieu, warm sunshine" as they usher a group of people indoors, destroying the spurious pretense of celebrating the "King's naming day". One character sings an aria as a plea to the minister Don Fernando, and earlier fails to scare away a man with a murder plot, Pizarro. Jaquino is smitten with Marzelline, daughter of Rocco, and all three admire the courage shown by the gender-bending Leonore. Featuring the incarcerated Florestan, for 10 points, name this opera, the only one by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Blue

It is the color of the robe worn by Jan Vermeer's Geographer and the sheet in the background of Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time. It describes a series of paper cut-out nudes by Henri Matisse and the curtain in Ingres' Le Grand Odalisque, and it is the color of Mary's clothes in Giotto's Arena Chapel frescoes. It may be more associated with works such as Le Repas Frugal, Le Gourmet and The Old Guitarist. For 10 points, name this color that describes a melancholy period of Pablo Picasso.

4'33"

Kyle Gann's analysis of this piece notes its similarities to an 1898 funeral march by Alphonse Allais. It was premiered by David Tudor during a Woodstock music festival, and it was inspired by a trip to Harvard where its composer entered an anechoic chamber. Its composer's 1962 follow-up to it included the instruction "in a situation provided with maximum amplification, perform a disciplined action." Its original performer marked the beginning of this piece by closing the lid of the piano. For 10 points, name this piece whose three movements consist of the indication "Tacet," a John Cage composition that consists only of ambient sound for the title amount of time.

Hudson River School

Members of this school include George Inness and an artist who depicted an active volcano in Cotopaxi. Another member of it depicted the rise and fall of civilizations in the series The Course of Empire. One painting produced by a member of this school shows that member standing with William Cullen Bryant on an outcropping overlooking the Kaaterskill Falls; that painting is (*) Kindred Spirits. Asher Durand and Thomas Cole were members of, for 10 points, what American school of naturalist painting that was concentrated in New York?

Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Music The end of this symphony's first movement sounds like a funeral march that starts with the bass instruments and spreads to the rest of the orchestra. Its first section is marked Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso. The first and second movements are mostly in D Minor, and the fourth movement is similar to the ending of Brahms' First Symphony. Vocals are only used in the fourth movement; they sing Friedrich Schiller's "Ode To Joy". Name this final symphony by Beethoven. 2011 HSAPQ Colonia 2/HS/Fine ArtsNighthawks [do not accept "The Nighthawks"]

Goldberg Variations

Number 25 is the slowest and the last of three in G minor. Number 16 begins with an emphatic G-major chord and is styled after a French overture, while number 30 quotes the tune "Cabbage and turnips have driven me away." Although number 7 is intended to be gigue tempo, Glenn Gould played it slowly. Every third one is a canon at successively higher intervals, and all are based on the ground bass of an aria that returns at the end of this collection. Named for its 14-year-old original performer, this is, For 10 points, what set of 30 variations by Johann Sebastian Bach?

The School of Athens

On the right, the artist of this painting portrays himself next to Zoroaster, who holds a celestial globe. On the left, Averroes looks intently at a man writing in a book, while Epicurus puts his hands on a bowl of wine. The painting also depicts figures such as Bramante and Michelangelo, who respectively look like Euclid and Heraclitus. Centering on the two central figures of Plato and Aristotle, For 10 points, name this Raphael painting that shows famous philosophers of the ancient world all gathered in the titular Greek city.

Rigoletto

One character in this opera compares his morality with an assassin's in the aria "Pari Siamo," and in the aria "Caro Nome" the soprano sings about her love for a man pretending to be a student named Gualtier Malde. In the third act, Maddalena convinces the assassin Sparafucile to spare the life of her lover, and in its first act Monterone curses the title character. At the end of this opera that title character realizes the sack he is carrying contains the body of his daughter Gilda and not his enemy the Duke of Mantua when he hears the aria "La Donna e Mobile." For 10 points, name this opera about the titular jester by Giuseppe Verdi.

Spain

One composer from this country was a piano virtuoso who wrote a suite of twelve piano "impressions," one of which depicts a Corpus Christi day celebration. Another composer from this nation wrote a ballet that describes a lecherous magistrate who lusts after a miller's wife. This is the home country of the classical guitarists Fernando Sor and Andres Segovia, as well as the composer of The (*) Three-Cornered Hat, Manuel de Falla, and the cellist Pablo Casals. For 10 points, name this European country whose dancers often click castanets to flamenco music.

Hungary

One composer from this country wrote "The Viennese Musical Clock" and often names a method of hand signs to represent solfege. Another composer from this country wrote Mikrocosmos and Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta. One composer from this country wrote the Faust-inspired Mephisto Waltzes. That composer also wrote a work that adapts the Rakoczy March, and is part of a collection of 19 works named after this country. For 10 points, name this home of Zoltan Kodaly, Bela Bartok, and Franz Liszt, who wrote Rhapsodies named after this place.

Great Britain

One composer from this nation wrote a Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli and the oratorio A Child of Our Time. Another composer from this nation arranged the "Fantasy on the Dargason" from his Second Suite for Military Band for the finale of his St. Paul's Suite. A third composer from this country wrote In the Fen Country, as well as Antarctic and Sea Symphonies. The home of Michael Tippett and the composer of (*) The Planets, Gustav Holst, it is also the home of Ralph Vaughn Williams. For 10 points, name this nation whose capital Vaughn Williams commemorated in his second symphony, London.

Adams

One composer of this name created such Alaska-inspired works as In a Treeless Place, Only Snow. Another holder of this name wrote a "Fanfare for Great Woods" called Short Ride in a Fast Machine, while an earthquake inspired his I Was Looking at a Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky. He was accused of "romanticizing terrorists" in his opera about the fate of a passenger on the Achille Lauro, and he created a tribute to 9/11 called On the Transmigration of Souls. His most famous work includes a foxtrot performed by characters like Zhou En-lai and Mao Zedong. For 10 points, identify this composer of The Death of Klinghoffer and Nixon in China.

Debussy

One of his first major works was an irregular String Quartet in G Minor which utilized the Phrygian mode. Each piano etude in his set of twelve is geared towards a different technical development, including repeated notes, sixths, and octaves. He made use of the whole tone scale in works like his piano Arabesques. His orchestral works include one with the movement "Play of the Waves" and another based on a Mallarme poem. For 10 points, name this French composer of La Mer and Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. |

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn [or Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy]

One of his pieces premiered at the 1846 Birmingham Festival, and is often paired with another of this man's oratorios, St. Paul. His fifth symphony was created to honor Martin Luther's Augsburg Confession and is nicknamed Reformation. This composer of the Elijah oratorio included the Hebrides Overture in his Scottish Symphony. For 10 points, name this composer whose incidental music for A Midsummer's Night Dream includes Wedding March.

Niccolo Paganini

One of this composer's concertos draws its nickname from the bell he instructs to play before the repetition of the rondo theme in the third movement. In addition to composing works subtitled "The Hunt" and "La Campanella," he wrote Moto Perpetuo. This composer's best known collection of works includes a piece called "The Devil's Laughter" and ends with a work that was the basis for a variation by Brahms and a rhapsody that quotes the "Dies Irae" by Rachmaninoff. For 10 points, name this Italian violin virtuoso who wrote 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, whose skills were rumored to come from a deal with the Devil.

Sousa

One of this composer's pieces is said to have gotten its name from the firework-like effects of the drums in its score, and in addition to "The Thunderer," this man composed a piece in 6/8 time for the Washington Post. In his most famous form, he composed "Semper Fidelis" for the US Marine Corps and a piece entitled "U.S. Field Artillery" that is based on the "Caisson Song." For 10 points, name this American composer of "Stars and Stripes Forever" known as the "March King."

Frank Lloyd Wright

One of this man's buildings had an exterior featuring patinated copper, the Price Tower, his only realized skyscraper. The Jacobs House has the characteristic L-shape of this architect's Usonian style. He designed the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, and a New York art museum resembling a coiled white ribbon. He designed his Wisconsin summer home, Taliesin, as well as house featuring cantilevered concrete floors, made for Edgar Kaufmann. For 10 points, name this American Prairie School architect who designed Fallingwater.

Michaelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio (or Michaelangelo Merisi; do not accept only "Michaelangelo")

One painting by this artist depicts the artist himself holding a lantern, along with a figure fleeing from soldiers. Another work by this man depicts two figures playing cards, though one figure has a hidden dagger behind his back. Peaches, grapes, and apples are depicted in his Boy With a Basket of Fruit. One work by this artist of (*) Cardsharps shows the newly resurrected Jesus revealing himself during the title meal, while another shows Jesus pointing to the title figure, who is surrounded by tax-collectors. For 10 points, name this Baroque Italian artist of Supper at Emmaus and The Calling of St. Matthew.

Saxophone

One player of this instrument recorded with Tommy Flanagan and Max Roach on an album named after this instrument's Colossus. Another player of this instrument is noted for his rendition of Gilberto and Jobim's bossa nova songs, including Desafinado and The Girl from Ipanema. A third player recorded such pieces as Yardbird Suite and was nicknamed "Bird." For 10 points, identify this jazz instrument played by Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, and Charlie Parker, which can come in tenor and alto varieties.

Mount Rushmore

One site that was passed over for it is known as The Needles, and a technique used in it is "honeycombing". A nearby structure contains sixteen porcelain enamel panels as well as a titanium vault, two finishing touches in its Hall of Records. It saw the use of a protractor twelve times bigger than usual, and construction of it began with the drilling of six holes. The beard of one figure on the far right delayed its construction, and dynamite was used to grade contours of the figures' lips. For 10 points, name this Gutzon Borglum work, a South Dakota presidential monument.

Goodman

One solo by this man was immediately followed by the best-known solo of Jess Stacy and was played over a tom-tom accompaniment by Gene Krupa. In addition to Krupa, Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton were part of this man's namesake Quartet, one of the first integrated groups in jazz. This man's concert at Carnegie Hall culminated in the tune "Sing, Sing, Sing." For 10 points, name this "Patriarch of the Clarinet" and "King of Swing."

Shostakovich

One symphony by this composer uses a jaunty theme in the strings to represent Humor while another of his symphonies is dedicated to the first of May. This composer scored his first piano concerto for piano, strings, and solo trumpet, and in his eighth string quartet he repeats a signature D - E-flat - C - B motif. This author also wrote an opera about Katerina Izmailova, and his seventh symphony features a snare drum ostinato which begins an "invasion" theme. For 10 points, name this Russian composer of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District and symphonies nicknamed "Babi Yar" and "Leningrad."

Marcel Duchamp

One work by this artist contained 69 of his works in miniature and was titled Box in a Valise. That work was sup- posedly done by his female alter ego, Rose Sélavy. This artist also designed spinning disks called Rotoreliefs. Another work by this artist was accidentally shattered and then repaired by him. Nicknamed The Large Glass, its official name is The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even. A painting by this artist was rejected by many cubists and derided as "an explosion in a shingle factory." That work is Nude Descending a Staircase, Number Two. Name this artist famous for calling a urinal a fountain and for L.H.O.O.Q., which shows a mustache on Mona Lisa.

Vincent Van Gogh

One work by this artist shows a room with two chairs, two pillows and a red blanket on a bed in Bedroom at Arles. This artist of Wheatfield With Crows corresponded with his brother Theo about his works. This man depicted a room with five people at tables as a waiter clad in white stands by the central pool table in The Night Cafe. This artist's most famous painting depicts a small town and giant Cyprus tree above which are a crescent moon and swirling clouds. This artist used his favorite color yellow in his painting Sunflowers. For 10 points, name this Dutch artist of Starry Night.

Murals

One work in this medium depicts Huehueteotl rising from a volcano and other gods hovering above the temples of Sun and Moon, in its portrayal of the Coming of Quetzalcoatl. Another work in this form shows a Christ-like child and several laborers toiling together in Detroit Industry. Besides The Epic of American Civilization by Jose (*) Orozco, a work of art in this form depicted an army of people wearing gas masks and Lenin and was originally commissioned by Rockefeller; that work was Man, Controller of the Universe. For ten points, name this medium often used by Diego Rivera, in which paint is directly applied to a wall.

Illustrations of Dante's Inferno

One work of this type shows a horned figure holding a sword about to slay an infindel, while the third shows the moon reflected in the water before a descent. In addition to "The Mutilated Shade of Mahomet" and "The Darkening Sky of the First Night," another focuses on precipitation coming down on those who injure, while another shows bird women staring at two figures that approach a sylvan abode. In addition to "The Violent, Tortured in the Rain of Fire" and "Harpies in the Forest of Suicide," another shows Geryon giving two men a ride into the bolgias. The last shows Lucifer as the King of Hell, and the first shows the author before meeting Vergil. For ten points, name these Gustave Dore creations depicting the first part of the Divine Comedy.

The Planets

Part of its fourth section was adapted into the Thaxted hymn, which in turn became the tune for "I Vow to Thee, My Country". Bells interrupt a slow crescendo in its fifth section, and its first movement has the string instrument players hit their bows against their strings and [*] is a march set to timpani in 5/4 time. Its seventh and final section ends with an offstage women's chorus singing the earliest modern example of a fadeout and is subtitled "The Mystic". For 10 points, name this orchestral suite with movement titles like "Saturn, Bringer of Old Age" and "Mars, The Bringer of War", by Gustav Holst.

Clarinet

Players of this instrument often utilize "resonance fingerings" to obtain a more uniform sound when playing this instrument's notorious "throat tones". Johann Christoph Denner is attributed as the inventor of this instrument, whose low range is called the "chalumeau" after its ancestor. Haydn's 99th symphony was his first to use this instrument, which along with the horn represents the title character of Strauss' Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks. Anton (*) Stadler was an early virtuoso on this instrument, for which Mozart wrote his last concerto, in A major. This instrument plays a glissando at the opening of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. For 10 points, name this single-reed woodwind instrument usually pitched in either B-flat or A.

Violin concerto

Stravinsky wrote one of these works that was has a toccata, two arias, and a capriccio movement, which was recorded by Hilary Hahn. J.S. Bach wrote a "double" one of these works in D minor which only uses a string orchestra. Tchaikovsky and Beethoven both wrote their versions of this kind of work in D major. Brahms dedicated his work of this type to Joseph Joachim. Vivaldi wrote four that were accompanied by (*) sonnets. Well-known performers of these kinds of works include Isaac Stern and Itzhak Perlman. For 10 points, name this kind of work for an orchestra and a string soloist, which are exemplified by The Four Seasons.

Whistler's Mother [accept Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 2]

The artist places an earlier 1859 drawing depicting Black Lion Wharf in the background of this painting, and the sketch appears framed on the otherwise empty wall. A bright floral pattern livens up the somber black curtain that fills the left hand side of the scene. Similarly, the subject of the painting only has white lace cuffs and a white bonnet to contrast with her austere black dress as she sits in profile facing left. For 10 points, identify this "arrangement in gray and black" portraying the distaff ancestor of James Whistler.

Händel's Messiah

The complete short score of this work was completed in 22 days. First performed at a Dublin charity concert to benefit "the prisoners of the several gaols [jails]," it is a three-part work based on a Charles Jennens libretto. For 10 points—name this 1741 work most noted for its choruses, including "Glory to God," the concluding "Amen," and the infamous "Hallelujah."

The Titan Symphony

The composer of this work initially named its two divisions "A Chapter of Flowers" and "Days of Youth." The second movement of this symphony is a German Ländler, and the third movement contains a dirge-like rendition of "Frere Jacques" in a funeral march. This piece was based on a literary work by Jean Paul Richter about a youth who escapes suffering, Blumine, and it was also inspired by an engraving of "The Huntsman's Funeral." The first theme of this symphony comes from the second of its composers Songs of a Wayfarer. For 10 points, name this symphony by Mahler, his first, whose nickname evokes a race of mythological beings.

Porgy and Bess

The lead and namesake female character of this opera is left by one man, cared for and protected by the next, pursued by a third, fought over by the first two, leading to the initial man's death, lured into accompanying the third man to New York, and followed by the namesake male lead to rescue her. An aria in this work is "Summertime." For 10 points, name this folk opera by George Gershwin about a physically disabled man and the woman he loves in the town of Catfish Row, South Carolina.

Nighthawks

The red-haired woman depicted in this painting also appears in its artist's work Summertime and was modeled on the artist's wife Jo. This painting contains an advertisement for Phillies cigars and depicts seven stools, one of which is occupied by a man in a fedora with his back towards the viewer. Supposedly based on a restaurant in Greenwich Village, it also shows a worker in white looking up at a couple sitting at the bar. For 20 points, name this Edward Hopper painting depicting three customers and a worker at a late-night diner.

The Rite of Spring

The score for this ballet contains a pounding combination of an F flat chord and an E-flat seventh chord played two hundred times in its section "Dances of the Adolescent Girls." This ballet climaxes with a young girl dancing herself to death in its final act, "The Sacrifice." This ballet's awkward, primitive movements, choreographed by (*) Vaslav Nijinsky, and its strongly dissonant music inspired a riot at its 1913 premiere. For 10 points, name this ballet composed by Igor Stravinsky, which depicts a pagan ritual.

Dies Irae

The theme from this musical work is quoted in Glazunov's orchestra suite From the Middle Ages and paraphrased in Liszt's Totentanz. Also appearing in the first, third, and fifth movements of Mahler's Resurrection, this work's theme appears in the movement "Dreams of a Witches' Sabbath" from Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. This work describes how "Death is struck, and nature quaking" on its namesake day. Thought to be written by Thomas of Celano, Mozart's Requiem Mass also features its theme. For 10 points, name this Gregorian plainchant melody and Latin hymn describing a "day of wrath."

Tosca

The title character of this work sees familiar blue eyes in a painting that lead her to believe that her lover is seeing the Marchesa. In this opera's third act, a man dons women's clothing and is promised "Even if it costs me my life, I'll save you" before a cannonball is fired from the Castel Sant'Angelo. In the first act of this opera, choir boys who mistakenly believe that Napoleon has lost at Marengo rehearse a celebratory "Te Deum." The title character of this opera sings that she lived for art in the aria "Vissi d'arte," which is followed by the suicide of Angelotti. This opera's title character sleeps with the sinister Baron Scarpia in a failed attempt to save the life of her lover, the painter Cavaradossi. For 10 points, name this opera in which the title singer jumps to her death, composed by Giacomo Puccini.

Rimsky-Korsakov

There is some confusion over the numbering of this composer's symphonies because he originally labeled one piece as his second symphony and later stated, it was "a poem, suite, fairy tale, story, anything you like, but not a symphony". That piece is now considered a symphonic suite named Antar. This composer attempted to edit the works of Mikhail Glinka, and he heavily utilized the oboe in his Variations in G minor on a theme by Glinka. One of his pieces, which asks the violins and violas to play one section as guitars, is Capriccio Espagnol. Another, subtitled Overture on Liturgical Themes, is the Russian Easter Festival Overture. Name this composer of Scheherazade whose opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan includes the interlude "Flight of the Bumblebee".

Richard Strauss

This German Romantic composer composed the theme for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and became President of the Reich Music Bureau, even though his daughter-in-law was Jewish. Married to a soprano, he wrote many operas, most importantly "Elektra" and "Salome." He is also famous for his tone poems including Don Quixote. For 10 points name this composer whose Also Spracht Zarathustra is used in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Frank Lloyd Wright

This architect designed a hexagonal grid system of sliding wooden walls, the Honeycomb House. Concrete rectangles surround a giant central cube in this architect's Unity Temple. He designed many Usonian houses, as well as a New York City art museum that consists of a central spiraling ramp. This architect used cantilevers in the Robie House, and pioneered the Prairie School. For 10 points, name this American architect of the Guggenheim museum and Fallingwater.

Whistler

This artist befriended the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood after the 1859 Paris salon rejected his painting At the Piano. After gaining renown for his 1863 canvas Symphony in White, Number 1, he began signing his paintings with a butterfly monogram, while he is better known for a painting criticized by John Ruskin because it was akin to "flinging a pot of paint in the public's face". For 10 points, name this American expatriate best known for Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket and Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Artist's Mother.

Vincent Van Gogh

This artist created Lying Cows and Bulb Fields, as well as a painting of a room with a yellow vaulted ceiling and with open red doors. In addition to Entrance of the Hospital, he painted a series of portraits of the Roulin family; and two of his most famous works incorporate clocks that read 7:00 and 12:15. Notable for a depiction of four ugly peasants sitting around a table, a room highlighted by a billiards table in the middle, and a cypress tree overlooking Saint-Rémy, this artist only painted for a decade. Name this red-headed Dutchman who painted The Potato Eaters, The Night Café, and Starry Night.

Rodin

This artist created a torso of a man with his belly out and the stubs of his limbs splayed in a work depicting Marsyas similar to his full-body The Falling Man. One of this man's sculptures shows three nude men with their heads bent together and their left arms limply outstretched together with their hands meeting. This artist of The Three Shades also created an armless, headless figure, his (*) Walking Man. He was accused of using a live model for one work, while another was a rejected depiction of an enrobed Honoré de Balzac. He depicted Paolo Malatesta and Francesca di Rimini locked in embrace in another work. For 10 points, name this sculptor of The Age of Bronze whose unfinished Gates of Hell included versions of The Kiss and The Thinker.

Marcel Duchamp

This artist created a work featuring malic molds in which nine male figures lie next to a coffee grinder on the bottom half with a woman on the top. This artist's work Why Not Sneeze? was ostensibly created by his alter ego Rose Selavy. This artist of The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even created a work signed R. Mutt and painted a work that was called "an explosion in a shingle factory" at the Armory Show. For 10 points, identify this artist who painted Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 and created readymades, like a urinal called Fountain.

Dalí

This artist depicted four slices of the titular foodstuff with butter in the painting The Basket of Bread and worked with the director Luis Bunuel on a film that opens with a razor slicing an eye. The creator of works such as Soft Construction with Boiled Beans and The Hallucinogenic Toreador, this painter created a depiction of the crucifixion with cubes in Corpus Hypercubus. Cubes are again featured in the "disintegration" of his most famous work, which features a desert landscape and a certain device swarmed with ants. For 10 points, name this surrealists artist who depicted melting clocks in The Persistence of Memory.

Raphael

This artist included scenes like The Death of Ananias and The Miraculous Draught of Fishes in a series of cartoons meant to be the designs of tapestries for the Sistine Chapel. He depicted John the Baptist holding a cross to Jesus in his Alba Madonna, and painted a nymph riding a shell pulled by dolphins in Triumph of Galatea. Giulio Romano completed this artist's final work, a depiction of the transfiguration in which Christ floats against eerie blue light. The Sala di Costantino and the Stanza della Segnatura are among this artist's namesake rooms in the Palace of the Vatican, which include his depictions Zeno of Citium, Plato, and Socrates. For 10 points, name this artist who created The School of Athens. 2008 HSAPQ NSC 2/HS/Fine ArtsEl Greco [or Domenicos Theotokopolous]

Gustav Klimt

This artist painted a Caucasian face and a blue face seemingly drowning in hair in Water Sprites. His portrait of Mäda Primavesi shows her wearing a white dress with a purple background, and he is also known for portraits of Sonja Knips, Emilie Flöge, and Adele Bloch-Bauer. One of this artist's best known works is painted directly onto the walls of the Secession building in Vienna and named after Beethoven. Name this artist who often attached gold leaf to his works such as his two Judith paintings and The Kiss.

Jan van Eyck

This artist painted a friar facing a red-clad Mary in the Madonna of Chancellor Rolin and used red again for the coloring of the titular headgear in the Portrait of a Man in a Turban. This artist executed a polyptich which, when closed, features panels of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist painted in grisaille. That work also features a section that shows a bloody lamb. In another work by this artist, a dog sits at the foot of the titular couple and a convex mirror hangs in the background. For 10 points, name this Flemish painter of the Ghent Altarpiece and The Arnolfini Wedding.

Delacroix

This artist painted a man milking a mare while another man offers the central figure a basket of food in his Ovid Among the Scythians. He depicted an African servant leaving on the left while the subjects are seated around a hookah in one work. A woman dressed in white is about to fall onto a pile of rubble in his Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi. Besides the aforementioned Women of Algiers, his most notable work depicts the Bastille in the background as a half-nude woman holding a flag in one hand and a bayonet in the other steps over a pile of bodies. For 10 points, name this artist of Liberty Leading the People.

Johannes Vermeer

This artist painted a woman in a yellow and white gown smiling underneath a landscape portrait in his The Guitar Player. This artist painted a girl seated above a checkered floor being handed a the title correspondence in The Love Letter. Several of this artist's works, like his The Milkmaid, contain an open window at the upper left. This artist painted a girl with a blue headband wearing a turban in Girl with a Pearl Earring. For 10 points, name this Dutch painter of genre scenes and landscapes like View of Delft.

Thomas Eakins

This artist painted nudes playing panpipes in Arcadia. This artist made several paintings of William Rush and His Model. One of his works shows the title figure looking over his shoulder, reflected in the calm water. One of his studies of the human form shows several boys swimming around a pier. In addition to The Swimming Hole and Max Schmitt in a Single Scull, this artist painted a work featuring some stern figures in frock coats. Students at the Jefferson Medical College look on as a patient with osteomyelitis of the femur is operated on in that work. For 10 points, identify this artist of The Gross Clinic.

Winslow Homer

This artist showed a black man being clothed in a Harlequin costume in Dressing for the Carnival. This artist depicted Brigadier General Francis Barlow leading away seven captured officers in Prisoners from the Front. He painted a work showing seven shoeless boys hanging onto each other while playing a game outside a red schoolhouse, and another one of his paintings depicts three men sailing on the Gloucester. This artist painted Snap-the-Whip and Breezing Up and also created a work in which a shirtless black man lies on a boat in shark-infested waters. For 10 points, name this American artist who painted The Gulf Stream.

Jan van Eyck

This artist wrote "As I Can" in Greek across the top of one of his frames. In the background of one painting by this artist, a man in a turban stands next to a man bent over a balcony looking down at a river. In that painting, an angel holds a crown above the title figure's head while the baby in her lap holds an orb with a cross. This painter of Madonna of Chancellor Rolin also painted a work in which scenes from the Passion are on ten medallions set around a mirror and a cherry tree is visible through a window. For 10 points, name this painter of Man in a Red Turban, who also depicted a single lit candle in a chandelier and a small dog in his painting of a couple in their bedchamber, The Arnolfini Wedding.

Picasso

This artist's Massacre in Korea was influenced by Goya's The Third of May 1808. Dora Maar served as a model for a work by this man known as the Weeping Woman; he also painted a 1906 portrait of Gertrude Stein in his early career. With Georges Braque, he would go on to pioneer a major new art style. One work by this man was inspired by a trip to a Parisian museum displaying African masks; that work shows five nude prostitutes in Barcelona. For 10 points, name this artist of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon who depicted a German bombing raid in Spain in his work Guernica.

Franz Liszt

This composer counted an arrangement of the quartet from Verdi's Rigoletto among his "concert paraphrases". He included musical depictions of Michelangelo's The Thinker and sonnets by Petrarch in a suite subtitled "Italy", following one subtitled "Switzerland". Stacked fifths, E - B - F-sharp - C-sharp, imitate the devil tuning his violin in the first of four pieces by this composer based on Nikolaus Lenau's version of (*) Faust. This composer of the Years of Pilgrimage and the Mephisto Waltzes portrayed the title character being dragged by a horse in "Mazeppa", the fourth of his Transcendental Études. For 10 points, name this 19th-century piano virtuoso who composed the Hungarian Rhapsodies.

Charles Ives

This composer included movements inspired by Decoration Day and Thanksgiving in his Holiday Symphony, while his fourth symphony contains a section that incorporates the Watchman hymn. Ragtime influences can be seen in his composition Central Park in the Dark, a work which was grouped in the collection Two Contemplations with his piece The Unanswered Question. This composer of the Concord Sonata may be best known for a work that contains a movement named after "The Housatonic at Stockbridge." For 10 points, name this American composer of Three Places in New England.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

This composer wrote a symphonic poem inspired by an Arnold Böcklin painting, and he collaborated with Anton Arensky, Alexander Glazunov, and Sergei Taneyev to write a collection titled Four Improvisations. His third piano concerto was famously recorded by David Helfgott and Vladimir Horowitz, and he wrote a choral symphony based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells". His best-known work includes twenty-four variations on the twenty-fourth and final part of another composer's work. Name this composer who made a piano trancription of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee and wrote Variations on a Theme of Corelli and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

This composer's body of work was the basis for Johann Fux's treatise Gradus ad Parnassum. His works are marked by a relegation of dissonances to weak beats, mostly stepwise melodic lines, and a focus on making the text easily intelligible, a style later composers called "prima prattica." This member of the Roman School wrote a five-voice motet cycle about the Song of Songs and a setting of the Improperia performed every Good Friday at the Sistine Chapel. This composer wrote one hundred and four (*) masses, including one which apocryphally convinced the Council of Trent not to ban polyphonic church music. For 10 points, name this 16th-century Italian composer of the Pope Marcellus Mass.

The Four Seasons

This cycle was the basis of Michel Corrette's Laudate Dominum de coelis and a flute solo composed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Collected alongside Pleasure and Storm at Sea in The Trial of Harmony and Invention, its score contains references such as "the barking dog" and "the drunkard," drawn from the composer's sonnets on which they are based. For 10 points, identify these concerti for violin and string orchestra that move from a pastoral dance to a description of "Shivering, frozen mid the frosty snow in biting, stinging winds," composed as an early incident of program music by Antonio Vivaldi.

"Russian"

This is the more common adjective applied to a variant type of bassoon that is sometimes called the "serpent," and a 1912 choral work describes the "march" of this type of "falcons." Benjamin Britten wrote a brass band arrangement entitled this type of "funeral." One work which uses this ethnic word in its title quotes from folk songs such as "Spin, O My Spinner." For 10 points, what is this adjective, which is "Little" in the name of Tchaikovsky's second symphony, and describes a Rimsky-Korsakov work dedicated to the memory of the Mighty Five, his "Easter Overture?"

Alfred Stieglitz

This man created a series showing clouds called Equivalents, while his later work usually depicted the busy streets of New York. He depicted poor passengers on the boat Kaiser Wilhelm II in The Steerage, and met Edward Steichen at the First Chicago Photographic Salon. Along with F Holland Day, this man led the Photo-Secession movement. One of the first to exhibit Ansel Adams's works, for 10 points, name this photographer who also made nude pictures of his wife, Georgia O'Keefe.

Whistler

This man created a work designed to show off Frederick Leyland's china collection that involved covering walls in gold leaf, entitled The Peacock Room, and this man painted a model favored by Gustave Courbet, Joanna Hiffernan, as exemplified by his depiction of her in The White Girl. This artist sued John Ruskin over a libelous statement made about a painting set in Cremorne Garden depicting a [*] fireworks show. The creator of a painting showing a seated woman in a black dress and white bonnet looking towards a blue-black curtain on the left, for 10 points, name this American artist of Nocturne in Black and Gold who painted his mother in Arrangement in Gray and Black.

[John Birks "Dizzy"] Gillespie

This man's collaboration with Earl Hines resulted in his piece "Interlude," and he played with Parker, Powell, and Mingus, among others, at the legendary Massey Hall show. This man covered "Summertime" on an album that also includes "Ain't Misbehavin'." In addition to Cognac Blues, this musician composed pieces like "Opus X" and "Groovin' High." His signature piece calls for musicians to yell the name title food item after a nine-note phrase. For 10 points, name this jazz trumpeter of "Salt Peanuts," a bebop pioneer famed for the forty-five degree angle of his trumpet bell and his puffy cheeks.

Steel

This material was used in creating Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate, which can be found in Chicago's Millennium Park and is colloquially known as "the Bean." Jeff Koons is best known for his balloon animalesque sculptures made from this material. Robert Indiana's LOVE and Alexander Calder's mobile Flamingo are both made from this substance. This material was used by Louis Sullivan to frame the Wainwright Building. For 10 points, name this material which made skyscrapers possible.

Louis Armstrong

This musician headed the Hot Five, which featured his wife Lil Hardin on piano. That group expanded into the Hot Seven and recorded his song "Potato Head Blues". He worked with Duke Ellington on the albums Together For The First Time and The Great Reunion, which were combined to make The Great Summit. He appeared in and recorded the title song for Barbra Streisand's film Hello, Dolly! and he made the first and most successful recording of "What A Wonderful World". Name this cornet- and trumpet- playing musician whose nickname, derived from his ever present wide smile, was often shortened from "Satchelmouth" to "Satchmo".

Scott Joplin

This native of Texarkana began composing in 1895 with works such as Please Say You Will and A Picture of Her Face. His 1910 opera about a slave on an Arkansas plantation was not performed until 1972, over 20 years after the composer's death. In addition to that opera, Treemonisha, other music by this composer also gained popularity in the 1970s, when works such as The Entertainer were included in the film The Sting. For ten points, identify this African-American ragtime musician who composed The Maple Leaf Rag.

The Magic Flute

This opera includes a paen to the gods sung by a sorcerer titled "O Isis und Osiris." Papageno discovers that his beloved Papagena is actually an old woman rather than a young and beautiful girl, but the pair are reunited, along with the protagonists Tamino and Pamina. At one point, Pamina is instructed to kill the sorcerer Sarastro or be cursed by her mother, Sarastro's rival. This opera is best-known for its challenging aria "Der Holle Rache," often called the "Queen of the Night" aria. For 10 points, what is this opera by Mozart involving a titular instrument with certain powers?

Dürer

This painter of The Feast of the Rose Garlands showed a man with a fur-adorned lance, a dog running through the legs of a horse, and a pig-snouted figure of Satan in his Knight, Death and the Devil. An hourglass, a bell, and a balance all hang on the wall behind a laurel-wreathed woman in his Melancholia I, and another balance is being whipped through the air by a horseman in his Apocalypse. For 10 points, name this Northern Renaissance practitioner of woodcuts, a noted sixteenth-century German artist.

"Flight of the Bumblebee"

This piece, which is taken from an opera, is in the same act as the introduction of the thirty-three bogatyrs [BOW-guh-teers] and the Swan-Bird's admonishment. A two-octave chromatic descent characterizes this work written in A-minor, and is almost exclusively sixteenth notes. In the middle of this piece, a pizzicato A minor arpeggio takes over, and the already fast chromatic motions around E increase in octave. This piece uses a solo violin to depict Prince Guidon, [GWEE-don] the protagonist of The Tale of Tsar Saltan, who becomes a stinging insect. For 10 points, name this most famous work by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

"Strange Fruit"

This song, which was first performed at New York's Cafe Society in 1939, was covered on the 1965 album Pastel Blues by Nina Simone. Columbia Records declined to record this song, but did grant its singer a release to record it on the Commodore label with a 70-second piano introduction by Sonny White. This song was adapted from a poem by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher who adopted Ethel and Julius Rosenberg's children and used the pen name Lewis Allan. Its lyrics contrast a "gallant" and "pastoral scene" with "the (*) bulgin' eyes and twisted mouth" and describe "blood on the leaves" and "black bodies swingin'" in the breeze. For 10 points, name this song in which Billie Holiday sings about "southern trees" that bear the products of lynchings.

The Night Watch [or De Nachtwacht; accept The Company of Frans Banning Cocq before mention]

This work's artist added an oval at the right side of an archway depicting the names of the people in this painting. A man waves a blue and yellow flag in this work's the background, and one woman is dressed in gold and has a chicken hanging from her belt; that figure is next to a man dressed in red loading a rifle. One of its central figures is dressed in gold and leads a group of men with pikes. For 10 points, name this painting depicting the militia of Franz Banning Cocq and William van Ruytenburch, named for the dark varnish of the painting, a work by Rembrandt.

Fred Astaire [or Frederick Austerlitz]

Todd Decker wrote a book examining this man and jazz titled Music Makes Me. This man choreographed nearly all of his musical numbers with his "near double", Hermes Pan. He's not Al Jolson, but this man performed "Steppin' Out with My Baby" and "Bojangles of Harlem" in blackface in Swing Time. Jane Powell played a character based on this man's sister Adele in the movie (*) Royal Wedding, which includes the songs "Sunday Jumps" and "You're All the World to Me", for which this man danced with a hat rack and on the walls and ceiling, respectively. In another film, he and a chorus of copies of him perform "Putting on the Ritz" in top hats and tails. For 10 points, name this dancing partner of Ginger Rogers.