Quiz: Mystery scores

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J.Z. Herrenberg

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

karlhenning

Um...cabbage crates coming over the briny?


Harry

Quote from: karlhenning on June 03, 2008, 08:32:35 AM
Um...cabbage crates coming over the briny?

Bunch of Monkey's on your ceiling Sir!
Grab your egg and fours and let's get the bacon delivered!
;D

J.Z. Herrenberg

Quote from: karlhenning on June 03, 2008, 08:32:35 AM
Um...cabbage crates coming over the briny?

Now you're talking sense ('the briny' is poetic for 'the sea')!
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

karlhenning

Quote from: Jezetha on June 03, 2008, 08:42:48 AM
Now you're talking sense ('the briny' is poetic for 'the sea')!

And is a pun on cabbage . . . that's probably the one banter-line in the sketch which I twigged  8)

greg

LO 288- Xenakis- Charisma

lukeottevanger

Quote from: karlhenning on June 03, 2008, 08:21:44 AM
Top-hole. Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's-your-father; hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers and caught his can in the Bertie.

Have any of you not privileged to live on this Septic Isle seen Armstrong and Miller's fabulous RAF pilot sketches?


http://www.youtube.com/v/lwNQf08Kxsw

Tons more on youtube

Oh yeah - all guesses correct - Chrone's Eben one (obviously keeping all that text in did make it too easy!); Greg's Xenakis one; and Sforzando is bang on with his Carter vocal chamber guess.

I'll go and update the list now....

lukeottevanger

#2748
TTT

Old list:
part one
and
part two

current list

Set by Luke
165 - Schubert - Symphony no 4 - (Sforzando)
166 - Brahms - Serenade no 1 - (Sforzando)
167 - Bartok - Miraculous Mandarin (complete ballet) - (Sforzando)
168 - Janacek - Otce Nas - (revealed by Luke)
169 - Mozart - Sinfonia Concertante (wind solos) - (Sforzando)
170 - Brahms - Neue Liebeslieder waltzes - (Sforzando)
171 - Liszt - Totentanz - (Johan)
172 - Schumann - Mein Wagen rollet langsam- (Sforzando)
173 - Wagner - Rheingold - (Mark)
174 - Stravinsky - Mass - (Mark)
175 - Sibelius - Tapiola - (Mark)
176 - Debussy- Danse sacre et danse profane - (Sforzando)
177 - Berlioz - Roman Carnival - (Johan)
178 - Debussy - Pelleas et Melisande - (Sforzando)
179 - Rossini - La Cenerentola overture - (Sforzando)
180 - Scriabin - Prometheus - (Mark)
181 - Franck - Symphonic Variations - (Sforzando)
182 - Gershwin - Piano Concerto - (Mark)
183 - Busoni - Piano Concerto - (Robert)
184 - Honegger - Pacific 231 - (Greg)
185 - Ligeti - String Quartet no 1 - (revealed by Luke)
186 - Ligeti - String Quartet no 2 - (matticus)
187 - Holst - The Perfect Fool - (Johan)
188 - Tippett - Fantasia Concertante/Corelli - (Johan)
189 - Elgar - Cockaigne - (Johan)
190 - Tippett - Triple Concerto - (Mark)
191 - Ireland - Piano concerto - (Guido)
192 - Tippett - Symphony no 1 - (Mark)
193 - Vaughan Williams - The Lake in the Mountains - (revealed by Luke)
194 - Tippett - A Child of Our Time - (Robert)
195 - Rubbra - Prelude/Fugue theme of Cyril Scott - (Maciek)
196 - Berners - Le poisson d'or - (Guido)
197 - Tippett - The Midsummer Marriage - (Mark)
198 - Howells - Hymnus Paradisi - (Guido)
199 - Lutoslawski - Two Etudes - (Maciek)
200 - Bloch - Schelomo - (Guido)
201 - Thelonius Monk improvisation - (revealed by Luke)
202 - Humperdinck - Hansel und Gretel - (Sforzando)
203 - Hoddinott - The sun, the great luminary of the universe - (revealed by Luke)
204 - Zimmermann - Stille und umkehr - (revealed by Luke)
205 - Ligeti - Cello Concerto - (Guido)
206 - Glass - Vessels (from Koyaanisqatsi) - (revealed by Luke)
207 - Berio - Folksongs - (Symphonien)
208 - Part - Rottkappchen und der Wolf - (Sforzando)
209 - Ligeti - Lontano - (Greg)
210 - Ligeti - Artikulation - (Greg)
211 - Bussotti - La Passion Selon Sade - (Symphonien)
212 - Stevenson - Passacaglia on DSCH - (Johan)
213 - Grainger - Ramble on Love - (Sforzando)
214 - Penderecki - De Natura Sonoris I - (Mark/Greg)
215 - Cowell - Fabric - (Sforzando)
216 - Dallapiccola - Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera - (Symphonien)
217 - Xenakis - à r - (Johan)
218 - Ives - Improvisation (transcr. Dapogny) - (Mark)
219 - Lipatti - Sonatina (left hand) - (revealed by Luke)
220 - Messiaen - Mode de valeurs... - (Guido)
221 - Messiaen - Tombeau de Paul Dukas - (Johan)
222 - Crumb - Agnus Dei (Makrokosmos II) - (Symphonien)
223 - Emsley - For Guitar 1 - (Johan)
224 - Villa-Lobos - Amazonas - (Johan)
225 - Koechlin - Les Heures Persanes - (Sforzando)
226 - Mussorgsky - Sunless - (Sforzando)
226 - Brant - Four Traumatics - (Sforzando)
227 - Schoenberg - Songs op 22 - (Mark)
228 - Foulds - Essays in the Modes - (Johan)
229 - Blacher - Preludes - (Sforzando)
230 - Gould - So you want to write a fugue - (Johan)
231 - Schoeck - Elegie - (Johan)
232 - Feldman - Piano - (revealed by Luke)
233 - Gurdjieff - something-or-other-I'll-find-out-later - (Johan)
234 - Ogdon - Sonatina - (revealed by Luke)
235 - Rachmaninov - Piano Trio 1 - (Guido)
236 - Britten - Michelangelo Sonnets - (Sforzando)
237 - Wyschnegradsky - Etude sur le carré magique sonore - (Johan)
238 - Scelsi - Bot-Ba SUite - (revealed by Luke)
239 - Mosolov - Two Dances op 23b - (Johan)
240 - Bryars - Mr Sunshine - (Sforzando)
241 - Francaix - La Promenade d'un musicologue éclectique - (Johan)
242 - Britten - Cadenza for Mozart K482 - (Sforzando)
243 - Sciarrino - Anamorfosi - (Johan)
244 - Nancarrow - ? - (Sforzando)
245 - Kagel - Rrrrrrr (organ set) - (revealed by Luke)
246 - Beethoven - Equali - (Mark)
247 - Boulez - Notations - (Sforzando)
248 - Ustvolskaya - Piano Sonata no 6 - (Johan)
249 - Hamelin - Preambulum to an Imaginary Piano Symphony - (Johan)
250 - Stockhausen - Gruppen - (Sforzando)
251 - Elgar - Carillon - (Chrone)
252 - Ravel - Ronsard à son âme - (Johan)
253 - Chopin (aged 7) - Polonaise - (Sforzando)
254 - Chopin reconstr. Kallberg - 'Trill' Prelude - (Sforzando)
255 - Scriabin - Fantasy for 2 pianos - (Symphonien)
256 - Ravel - Noël des jouets - (Johan)
257 - Alkan - Trois Etudes De Bravoure - (revealed by Luke)
258 - Handel - Guilio Cesare - (Sforzando)
259 - Gliere - Concerto for Coloratura Soprano - (Sforzando)
260 - Gorecki - 5 pieces for 2 pianos - (Symphonien)
261 - Stravinsky - Tango - (Sforzando)
262 - Webern - Movement (or Sonata) - (Symphonien)
263 - Gubaidulina - Toccata Troncata - (Symphonien)
264 - Haba - Fantasie no 2 - (revealed by Luke)
265 - Eötvös - Replica - (Symphonien)
266 - Lekeu - Piano Sonata - Sforzando)
267 - Markevitch - Variations on a Theme by Handel - (Sforzando)
268 - Lachenmann - Five Variations on a Theme of Schubert - (Symphonien)
269/269b - Suk - O Mamince - (Johan)
270 - Rimsky-Korsakov - Piano Concerto - (Sforzando)
271 - Schreker - Chamber Symphony (piano score) - (Johan)
272 - Howells - Walton's Toye - (Johan)
273 - Brian - John Dowland's Fancy - (Johan)
274 - Brahms - Schumann Variations - (Sforzando)
275 - Brahms - Variations/original theme - (Sforzando)
276 - Brahms - Gigue no 2 - (Johan)
277 - Brahms - Sarabande no 2 - (Johan)
278 - Walton - Spitfire Fugue - (Johan)
279 - Walton - Facade Suite 1 - (Johan)
280 - ? -
281 - Shostakovich - String Quartet no 8 - (Greg)
282 - Dvorak - Symphony no 1 - (Mark)
283 - Adams - The Wound-Dresser - (Chrone)
284 - Adams - Chamber Symphony - (Sforzando)
285 - Tchaikovsky - Francesca da Rimini - (Mark)
286 - Shostakovich - Fifth Symphony (manuscript) - (Mark)
287 - Strauss - Aus Italien - (Sforzando)
288 - Xenakis - Charisma - (Greg)
289 - Eben - Pragensia - (Chrone)
290 - Carter - A Mirror on Which to Dwell? - (Sforzando)
291 - Part - Fratres - (Mark)
292 - Carter - Piano Sonata - (Sforzando)

Set by Greg
31 - Mahler - Ressurection symphony - (Johan)

Set by Symphonien
1 - Lachenmann - Pression - (Luke)
2 - Stravinsky - Les noces - (Johan)
3 - Schoenberg - A Survivor from Warsaw - (Mark)
4 - Murail - Désintégrations - (Luke)
5 - Schnittke - Prelude in memoriam Dmitiri Shostakovich - (Mark)
6  - Sciarrino - Sei quartetti brevi - (Luke)
7 - Stockhausen - Es (aus der sieben Tage) - (Mark)
8 - Nietzsche - There flows a brook - (Guido)

Set by Guido
21 - Beethoven - Triple Concerto - (Luke)
22 - Ligeti - Hungarian Rock - (Luke)
23 - Bartok - Study for the Left Hand - (Luke)
24 - Miaskovsky - Cello Sonata 2 - (Luke)
25 - Schulhoff - Violin Sonata - (Luke)
26 - Webern - Piece for cello and piano - (Luke)
27 - Tchaikovsky - Rococo Variations - (Luke)
28 - Scarlatti - Sonata K175 - (Luke)
29 - Vaughan Williams - Romance - (Luke)
30a-c - Ives - Skethces for Universe Symphony - (Luke)
31 - Korngold - Romance-Impromptu - (Johan)
32 - Ives - Some Southpaw Pitching - (Luke)
33 - Honegger - Cello concerto - (Luke)
34 - Ysaye - Solo Cello Sonata - (Luke)
35 - Klengel - Hymnus - (Luke)
36 - Piazzolla - Cuatro Estaciones porteña - (Luke)
37 - T. Newman - score to American Beauty - (Luke)
38 - Janacek - Violin Sonata - (Luke)
39 - Ravel - Concerto for the Left Hand - (Luke)
40 - Bartok - Solo Violin Sonata - (Luke)
41 - Rachmaninov arr. Reed - C# minor Prelude - (Luke)

Set by Sforzando
1 - Schubert - Reliquie Sonata - (Luke)
2 - Feldman - Last pieces - (Guido)
3 - Griffes - The White Peacock - (Luke)
4 - Ferneyhough - Superscriptio - (Mark)
5 - Ibert - Le petit ane blanc - (Guido)
6 - Ruggles - Sun-Treader - (Mark)
7 - Verdi - original version of Liber Scriptus, Manzoni Requiem - (Luke)
8 - Berwald - Symphony no 3 - (Mark)
9 - Rimsky-Korsakov - Le coq d'or - (Mark)
9(a) - Beethoven - sketchbook for opp 130, 132 - (Luke)
10 - Gluck - Le calme entre dans ma coeur (Iphigénie en Tauride) - (Luke)
11 - Rameau - Les tendres plaintes - (Luke)
12 - Roussel - Le festin de l'araignée - (Luke)
13 - Alfvén - First Swedish Rhapsody (Midsommarvaka) - (Johan)
14 - Panufnik - Jagiellonian Triptych - (Johan)
15 - Respighi - Brazillian Impressions - (Luke)
16 - Beach - Gaelic Symphony - (Luke)
17 - Hoffmann - Piece for Orchestra - (Luke)
18 -  Flothuis - Symphonic Music - (Luke)
19 - von Einem - Philadelphia Symphony - (Luke)
20 - Martin - Concerto pour sept instrument à vents - (Luke)
21 - Bernstein - Serenade - (Luke)
22 - Larry Rinkel - Sonatina - (Luke)
23 - Chabrier - Bourrée Fantasque - (Johan)
24 - Wolf - Er ist's - (Luke)
25 - Berlioz - Benvenuto Cellini - (Luke)
26 - Hummel - Trumpet Concerto - (Luke)
27 - Varese - Density 21.5 - (Luke)
28 - Gottschalk - Grand Tarantelle - (Johan)
29 - Berio - Sequenza XI - (Luke)
30 - Schumann - Fantasy op 17 (orig. ending) - (Luke)
31 - Schmidt - The Fantasticks - (Luke)
32 - Wolf - Ganymed - (Luke)
33 - Wagner - Die Meistersinger.. - (Luke)
34 - Wagner - Das Rheingold - (Luke)
35 - Alkan - Allegro Barbaro (no 5, Etudes Dans Tous Les Tons Majeurs) - (Johan)
36 - Massenet - Don Quichotte - (Johan)
37 - Schumann - Genoveva - (Johan)
38 - Meyerbeer - Les Huguenots - (Chrone)
39 - Bolling - Picnic Suite - (Luke)
40 - Byrd - Great Service - (Luke)
41 - Walton - Belshazzar's Feast - (Luke)
42 - Boulez - First Sonata - (Luke)
43 - Handel - Saul - (Luke)
44 - Glanville Hicks - The Transposed Heads - (Mark)
45 - Barraque - Piano Sonata - (Luke)
46 - Dvorak - Symphony no 3 - (Luke)
47 - Liszt - Hungarian Folksong - (Luke)
48 - Clementi - Sonata op 40/2 - (Luke)


Set by Chrone
1 - Gibbons - Cries of London - (Sforzando)
2 - Billings - Jargon - (Sforzando)
3 - Joplin - Treemonisha - (Mark)

Set by Karl
1 - Henning - Wedding Music - (Luke)

(poco) Sforzando

Quote from: lukeottevanger on June 03, 2008, 11:50:57 AM
Oh yeah - all guesses correct - Chrone's Eben one (obviously keeping all that text in did make it too easy!); Greg's Xenakis one; and Sforzando is bang on with his Carter vocal chamber guess.

That's a relief. Most likely: "A Mirror on which to Dwell," though I get all those cycles confused in my mind.
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

lukeottevanger

#2750
Yes, that's the one. - it's the 'Sandpiper' song, in which the piping solo oboe is, in a sense, the bird itself.

lukeottevanger

Clues, anyone?

271 - Schreker - ? - (Sforzando)
See 284 for the form of this work.

276 - ? -
277 - ? -
These two go together (though not like ramma lamma lamma ka dinga da dinga dong). Unfortunately they've become separated from nos 274 and 275 - the clue that applied to those two also applies to these two.

280 - ? -
Shares something with Adams' Harmonium (specifically the score sample I posted as no 153); with the climax of the second movement of Shostakovich 6 (according to Sean), with pieces by Strauss, Walton and Schulhoff. But a finer work than any of these, and I prefer not to think of this exalted music in such graphic terms, even when the top of the page makes clear exactly what's happening here. The piano isn't all there is to hear in this piece.

282 - ? -
A symphony, whose key scheme may be a reference to that of Beethoven's 5th The score was lost, though rediscovered in its composer's lifetime (in a bookshop in Leipzig); however, the composer never learnt of this and often afterwards tended to discount it in the numbering of his symphonies.

283 - ? -
A Whitman setting

284 - ? -
See 271 for the form of this work.


Chrone

LO283: Adams, "The Wound-Dresser"

I should have been able to get that without the clue. :-\

lukeottevanger

Yes indeed. A piece that really hooked me when I was a teenager; slightly less so now, as I'm a little more jaded - it's a very emotional piece which knows exactly where there is a heart-string to be plucked and how to do so. OTOH there is absolutely no doubt that Adams meant the piece, which is bound up with his own father's illness, very sincerely indeed, and one can only admire the extremely skillful way Adams manages to wring every drop of expression from his text. If one surrenders to this piece, as perhaps one should without questioning, it is very powerful indeed.

Adams shows great sensitivity to musical imagery here. Sometimes what he does is obvious, but he does it supremely well - for instance, the violin solo accompanying 'the hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand', which begins low, atonal, fast and jagged but which quickly rises, becomes smoother, slower, calmer. Sometimes, though, he's managed to find an image that is just 'right', but heaven knows how or why - at 'On, on I go. Open doors of time, open hospital doors' the music turns to a slow, dragging, melancholy waltz which mysteriously conjures up visions of these long corridors of time, the past, memory and nostalgia.

karlhenning


(poco) Sforzando

284, 271: I assume you're thinking of monodrama, with the first one being Erwartung. I think the ending with its rising scales of one of these may be an allusion to Schoenberg's masterpiece.
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

Mark G. Simon

Quote from: lukeottevanger on June 03, 2008, 01:55:56 PM
282 - ? -
A symphony, whose key scheme may be a reference to that of Beethoven's 5th The score was lost, though rediscovered in its composer's lifetime (in a bookshop in Leipzig); however, the composer never learnt of this and often afterwards tended to discount it in the numbering of his symphonies.

This has got to be Dvorak's Bells of Zlonice (Symphony no. 1)

lukeottevanger

Quote from: Sforzando on June 04, 2008, 03:58:38 AM
284, 271: I assume you're thinking of monodrama, with the first one being Erwartung. I think the ending with its rising scales of one of these may be an allusion to Schoenberg's masterpiece.

No, not monodrama; in Schoenberg's output the piece is earlier than Erwartung, but is equally important and one of AS's finest and most famous works. I only it hope it is the first of its type - I can't think of others, anyway. The allusion to Schoenberg is in the horns. (Again, I'm only assuming it's a deliberate allusion - it must be, surely).

Mark, The Bells of Zlonice is correct.

J.Z. Herrenberg

Quote from: lukeottevanger on June 04, 2008, 05:28:56 AM
No, not monodrama; in Schoenberg's output the piece is earlier than Erwartung, but is equally important and one of AS's finest and most famous works. I only it hope it is the first of its type - I can't think of others, anyway. The allusion to Schoenberg is in the horns. (Again, I'm only assuming it's a deliberate allusion - it must be, surely).

Mark, The Bells of Zlonice is correct.

Kammersinfonie?!
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

lukeottevanger