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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.
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Koussevitsky commissioned this man to write his Symphony for Organ and Orchestra. He wrote an opera that opens with the arrival of Laurie Moss' graduation gown. Three ascending notes in the brass open a work by this man that debuted at tax time. He quoted folk songs like "Camptown Races" in a work that incorporates spoken-word readings of texts like the Gettysburg Address. He used themes from the Shaker hymn "Simple Gifts" for ballet choreographed by Martha Graham. Another of his ballets contains a "Hoe Down. " He composed Fanfare for the Common Man and the ballets Rodeo and Billy the Kid. For 10 points, name this composer of Appalachian Spring.
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Fine Arts

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It begins in Scythia, in a locale characterized as "the world's limit an untrodden desolation. " The title character doesn't speak until after Kratus and Bia, or Might and Violence, have left, soon after which he is visited by a Chorus of Ocean Nymphs, who like Hephaestus sympathize with the title character. It is to Oceanus that the title character recounts his tale, beginning with the war between the Gods and Titans. FTP, name this Aeschylus play about the tortured Titan whose foresight helped him give hope and fire to Man.
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Literature

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An unpublished work of criticism by this author on the works of Sainte-Beuve surfaced in the middle of the 20th century. His first published books, Portraits of Painters and Pleasures and Regrets, appeared with illustrations contributed by Madeleine Lemaire shortly after he gave up finishing Jean Santeuil. He began translating several works of John Ruskin soon afterward, but his time spent in the army contributed to his most famous work, which contained sections titled Within a Budding Grove and Sodom and Gomorrah, as well as the characters Charles Swann and Odette de Crecy. FTP, identify this French author of a seven-volume work translated as In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past.
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Literature