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 this composer depicts peasants drinking in its first movement and ends with a hunt, as described (-5[1])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 four oft-excerpted three-movement (10[1])violin concertos. For 10 points, “Spring” is the first entry in what (0[1])Italian composer’s The Four Seasons? ■END■

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