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My fault for generating a little confusion (and another tangent)—he was the first part of two bonuses (again, HSNCT and NASAT). Of course, they both gave Spem in Alium as clues, but it was still rather strange. The NASAT bonus on gregorian chant named Du Fay, Ockeghem, and Josquin (if I recall corre...

...I've only ever seen Tallis (oddly enough) for pre-Monteverdi. This isn't true; Josquin, Ockeghem, Palestrina, Musica Transalpina and the English Madrigalists (e.g. Byrd), Peri, Schutz, and their works all appear in questions frequently. Granted, many of these don't appear in high school-level se...

OK, that's fair. I won't crusade any further for canon-expansion.

Actually, I think the paucity of askable recent "classical" music has a bearing on the expansion of "fine arts" for music to include "trash." I suspect that the utter lack of askable composers under the age of 50 (Paul Moravec, who would be a pretty serious stretch at A...

Fair enough, and I wonder if Tristan Murail is even at the ACF Nats level. I think that more "austere" composers could use more representation, along with Renaissance composers. I get that people generally do not know about them; I argue the same for many authors that have become quizbowl ...

If we limit our definition of "fine arts" music to Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez, and György Kurtág for contemporary music (no objection to that at all, really), then we do have to start seriously contemplating non- Contes d'Hoffmann Offenbach, Sullivan, and Puccini as "serious"...

I mean, I'm bewildered on both the level of your claim that Madonna is not artistically engineered music that is intended to be taken seriously but Wilco is, which seems rather backwards, and on the level of this discussion going the same place it does as when we have it every six months, which is ...

This is why Radiohead or Wilco might eventually be "fine arts," but never, say, Madonna. There isn't a rolleyes big enough for this. All of these opinions are pretty transparently "music I like or music that I think is 'good' is academic and important and everything else is trash.&qu...

Well, Robert Johnson is somewhat of a connoisseur's pick of a bluesman—he certainly has enough recognition (e.g. from Clapton and Rolling Stone) at this point, to the point at which Howlin' Wolf and others seem "neglected" by comparison. I wonder about calling the blues fine arts though, j...

I wonder how much more valid Stephen Foster—who makes a perfectly reasonable "classical" music tossup—is than any other more recent songwriter. I certainly don't think that anyone would question his placement in "fine arts," but if that's the case, then why not Sir Paul (birthday...

Hey, I would love to be first, but if I recall correctly, you named us 2nd at the tournament? I would appreciate a little clarification :)

Worked wonderfully last night—lots of people only created a little lag for me. What do you think about putting bonuses in for the multiplayer room? Also, perhaps multiple multiplayer rooms? [EDIT: Judging from the 27 people on tonight, I say that it is an absolute necessary to be able to have severa...

I like it, but the server dies a lot. Also, it hasn't worked properly for me in IE, but, luckily, I use safari

Not sure how useful anyone will find this, but I threw together a little PHP scoring/statistics applet
http://www.quizbowl.zymichost.com/newscore/
Feel free to drop some comments here.

[EDITED for updated version; forgot I had posted this]