Round 1: Tossup 20

A sinfonia from this composer’s opera Il Giustino shares a theme with one of his concertos. A concerto by this composer begins (read slowly) “pickup E, 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 in those concerti’s accompanying (*) sonnets. In The Contest Between (10[1])Harmony (10[2])and Invention, this composer depicted a barking dog in the first of (10[1])four oft-excerpted three-movement violin concertos. For 10 points, “Spring” is the (10[1])first (10[1])entry in what Italian composer’s (10[1])The Four Seasons? ■END■

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