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

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