Round 3: Tossup 14

A Boston Symphony Orchestra director and virtuoso of this instrument who wrote an F-sharp minor concerto for this instrument was named Serge Koussevitzky. This instrument plays the melody of “The Elephant” in Camille Saint-Saëns’ (15[1])Carnival of (15[1])the Animals. (15[1])This instrument, whose lowest string can be extended to C with a fingerboard extension, (15[2])has strings separated by ascending (*) fourths (10[1])instead of fifths. The second violin in (-5[1])Schubert’s (10[1])Trout Quintet is replaced by this instrument, (10[1])whose (10[1])players historically “doubled” (-5[1])an instrument an octave above it and played while standing. For 10 points, the (-5[2])cello (10[1])is pitched above what lowest string instrument (10[2])in a standard orchestra? ■END■ (10[4])

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