Packet 1: Tossup 20

A sinfonia from this composer’s opera Il Giustino (-5[1])shares a theme with one of his concertos. A concerto by this composer (15[1])begins (read slowly) “pickup E, (15[1])three G-sharps, sixteenth notes F-sharp, E, up to long B.” The third of a set of concerti by (15[1])this composer depicts peasants drinking in its first movement and ends with a hunt, (15[1])as described (-5[1])in (-5[1])those concerti’s accompanying (*) sonnets. In The Contest Between (10[2])Harmony (10[4])and Invention, (10[1])this (10[1])composer depicted a barking dog in the first of (10[2])four oft-excerpted three-movement (10[1])violin concertos. For 10 points, “Spring” is the (10[1])first (10[1])entry in what (0[1])Italian composer’s (10[1])The Four Seasons? ■END■

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