In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

Several of his early works, including such operas as Cleonice, Demofoonte, and Artaserse, were written with librettist Pietro Metastasio. He had begun composing an opera based on the Song of Roland, but the discovery that Niccolo Piccini was given the same libretto to work on sparked a rivalry in the Parisian press and motivated him to compose Armide. Collaboration with the librettist Calzabigi resulted in the composition of the ballets Semiramide and Don Juan, as well as an opera featuring the "Dance of the Blessed Spirits" and another in whose preface he declared his intent to "restrict music to its true office of serving poetry. " FTP, identify this German classical composer of "reform" operas such as Alceste and Orfeo et Euridice.
Fine Arts

Sections of this work discuss early Roman law and the Germanic wadium, while it begins with a quote from the Havamal, a portion of the Edda. This work extends the author's first work, a collaboration in which he analyzed analogous ideas in Hinduism and Judaism. Marilyn Strathern critiqued this book from a gender perspective, while Sahlins' article on the "The Spirit of [It]", claimed that its author may have misunderstood an idea called the hau, in which the souls of the people involved in the title ritual become intermingled. The author views the title concept as multivalentthat is, a situation where a single action stands for all of society, called a total prestation. Drawing from Malinowski's study of the kula ring and the institution of the potlatch, for 10 points, identify this sociological work about the titular exchange by Marcel Mauss.
Social Science

This musician featured his characteristic "higher interval sounds" especially 9ths, 11ths, and 13ths in his standards "Moose the Mooch" and "Confirmation," while another song is a "contrafact" based on the chord progressions of the standard "How High the Moon." While playing "Cherokee" he famously had an epiphany about a style that he would later develop by using chord substitution and breaking the regularity of the rhythm section. He included the tracks "Ko-Ko" and "Billie's Bounce" on a 1945 Savoy recording called "the greatest Jazz session ever" with his longtime collaborator Dizzy Gillespie. This man got his moniker from the songs "Yardbird Suite" and "Ornithology." For 10 points, name this Bebop jazz saxophonist nicknamed "The Bird."

Fine Arts