Question

This 3/4 movement opens with the eighth-note melody "C-flat, down to E-flat, D, up to C-flat, B-flat, down to D, long G-flat" played sempre vivo and fortissimo, then meno vivo and piano. For 10 points each:
[10h] Vladmir Stasov claimed that what movement depicts a creature "clumsily running with crooked legs?" This E-flat minor movement follows its piece's first promenade.
ANSWER: "Gnomus" [or "The Gnome"; prompt on, BUT DO NOT OTHERWISE REVEAL, descriptions like the first movement of Pictures at an Exhibition]
[10e] Movements like "Gnomus" and "the Old Castle" depict Viktor Hartmann's artworks in this suite by Modest Mussorgsky.
ANSWER: Pictures at an Exhibition [or Tableaux d'une Exposition; or Kartinki s vïstavski]
[10m] Pictures at an Exhibition returns to an E-flat tonic for this last movement of the piece, which begins with a slow brass fanfare in Maurice Ravel's orchestration.
ANSWER: "The Great Gate of Kyiv" [or "Bogatyrskiye vorota (V stolnom gorode vo Kiyeve)" or "The Bogatyr Gates (In the Capital in Kyiv)"; or "The Heroes' Gate at Kyiv"]
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TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 PACE NSC06/07/2025Y320.00100%67%33%