Question
Philip Ewell's article "Music Theory and the White Racial Frame" quotes this theorist's belief that notes in the octave don't have "equal rights." For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this virulently racist Austrian music theorist. This theorist's namesake analysis reduces music to a fundamental progression called the ursatz.
ANSWER: Heinrich Schenker [accept Schenkerian analysis]
[10e] Because the minimal ursatz outlines the scale degrees "3, 2, 1," a common parody of Schenkerian analysis holds that all music reduces to this nursery rhyme whose title animals get their tails cut off.
ANSWER: "Three Blind Mice"
[10m] Harmonically, the minimal ursatz outlines a progression from tonic to this function and back to tonic. The V ("five") chord has this function.
ANSWER: dominant function
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 42 | 10.00 | 41% | 55% | 5% |