Announcement: VESPERS Classical Music Side Tournament
Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 8:46 pm
Not all the details for this tournament have been finalized yet. I'm just posting this now because I'm about to embark on a trip where I won't have Internet access. I will add more specific information once I return and Connor and I hammer out the details.
We hope to run this tournament at one of the summer opens if possible, but for now, all we can say is that we'll run it eventually.
Questions will be written by me and Connor Teevens from MSU. There will most likely be a total of five packets with both tossups and bonuses (21/21). Questions will be no longer than eight lines long. Our intended difficulty is still to be decided, but we can say that a) it definitely will be harder than regular difficulty classical music, and b) it probably won't be as hard as many other side tournaments like CO Lit, if only because there haven't been many (or any, as far as I know) purely music-based side tournaments.
There will probably be more clues based in theory and orchestration than in most classical music questions, but not radically. Opera will be a smaller component of this tournament than of most quiz bowl classical music questions. There will be roughly equal amounts of 17th/18th century, 19th century, and 20th/21st century material, with some medieval and Renaissance material thrown in.
Before people compete on these questions, we'd like to have at least one person knowledgeable about classical music either playtest them or look them over. Let us know if you're interested (well, once we figure out where it's going to be played). We'll probably have it done by mid-July, and we have some questions already written.
We hope to run this tournament at one of the summer opens if possible, but for now, all we can say is that we'll run it eventually.
Questions will be written by me and Connor Teevens from MSU. There will most likely be a total of five packets with both tossups and bonuses (21/21). Questions will be no longer than eight lines long. Our intended difficulty is still to be decided, but we can say that a) it definitely will be harder than regular difficulty classical music, and b) it probably won't be as hard as many other side tournaments like CO Lit, if only because there haven't been many (or any, as far as I know) purely music-based side tournaments.
There will probably be more clues based in theory and orchestration than in most classical music questions, but not radically. Opera will be a smaller component of this tournament than of most quiz bowl classical music questions. There will be roughly equal amounts of 17th/18th century, 19th century, and 20th/21st century material, with some medieval and Renaissance material thrown in.
Before people compete on these questions, we'd like to have at least one person knowledgeable about classical music either playtest them or look them over. Let us know if you're interested (well, once we figure out where it's going to be played). We'll probably have it done by mid-July, and we have some questions already written.