Quiz: Mystery scores

[greg]

Good guess. It's Joe Satriani, Cool #9 (live version, G3). I've always wondered how they tab passages like these......
Here's a couple more Van Halen lookalike tabs:

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From the end of Steve Vai's "The Attitude Song", which is wild when played with guitars live!
I wish I could show you the score to the "Alien Water Kiss", which is really just a graphic score with electronic effects, all on one page. I saw it at the music store, but don't have the book....

[lukeottevanger]

Time for some clues, some cryptic, some less so. Remember you can download the PDF with all these scores (and already-identified ones) here.

298 - A pianist-composer known for his sheer effect; a piece in a particular state.
300 - Theo Ysaye, but what? There's no trickery here - it's what it looks like Piano concerto
303 - Cage, and a verbal setting (Joyce, last lines of Finnegan's Wake). So what is it likely to be? Songbooks
304 - Famous composer-pianist, teacher of some of the great modernists and futurists.  Been here before, and closely connected to no 330 too. Concerto for piano and strings, Busoni (aged 11)
305 - A great, great composer, much loved by many here, including on this thread, on which he has been present more than once, and recently too. But not associated with this sort of thing.
310 - Wrote an opera on the same subject as an early tone poem by Richard Strauss.
317 - Surprised no one's got this. Just another proof of the symphonies-before-anything-else malaise that affects this site.  Bruckner, Christus factus est
318 - This family wealth of this composer came from his father's work on an infamous, ambitious project supervised by a famous Baron who thought he should have instead had the title 'aquaduc'.  This Baron was also a fine musician, apparently, and I never knew that before!
319 - Subject of a currently active thread, mentioned more than once on this one, among other things a pianist of whom even Cortot was in awe, but for whom the piano was a second instrument.  The pedal marks, details of string notation and general look of this score are unique to this composer in my experience.
320 and 320a - The bilingual nature of these two scores is of interest, and is a clue itself. A fascinating figure in the early music of his adopted homeland, though his name is comparatively rarely mentioned. Heinrich - 320 is A Chromatic Ramble of the Peregrine Harmonist
321 - Member of an extremely musical and aristocratic family, this composer died young. A favourite composer of Herbie Hancock, apparently! 
322 - Composer of a recently identified score. Might help to look at the piece in a little detail.
323 - Unarguably one of the great pieces of chamber opera of the last 30 years, this. The three singers you see are all the opera needs, though they take on two roles each. Here we see the composer's mastery of pastiche - and his twisted sense of humour as, in private reverie over what has just been sung on the previous page, the three singers unwittingly break it up into a more suggestive form..... 'Oh that he held me fast by the cock.... I come....I am aroused....'  0:)  (<--- funnily enough, those guys are very good ciphers for the three singing at this point!)
324 - This work was almost forgotten by its composer; even when it was rediscovered within his lifetime, he never mentioned it and he never even named it properly (beyond the title Composition for Orchestra, which is not the name I'm looking for). It is linked thematically and chronologically with an early opera of the composer, but is probably more an expression of grief following the death of his son. His daughter died later, and the music which flowed from that event is much more famous. Interestingly, this piece is practically the only instance of D minor in the composer's output - he was obviously aware, as we all are, of the tawdry nature of that key and its aficionados, and he had personal key preferences a little way flat of this.
325 - As far as I remember, the first composer from his country to appear on this thread. A student of two great contemporary masters. This piece is somewhat balletic.
330 - let's work backwards - look at the clue to 304. Stevenson - Faust Fantasy
331 - British-born, but no longer resident there. A pupil (one of many) of one of 321's musical family.
332 - Relatively recently deceased composer of 'Requiem for a dead poet' - shares a middle name with the main male protagonist of 341.
336 - a often-maligned work around here. Surely those who malign it are at least able to recognise it? Though if not, I know already what their defence will be.... 
341 - ditto, in fact! (I didn't plan it that way). Truthfully, it's not as maligned, and actually most people here who've heard it love this work - but there are exceptions, and one of them frequents this thread. On this page we see the composer nonchalantly inventing Carl Stalling's cartoon-music style for him (IMO) - and that's appropriate at this madcap point in this otherwise rather serious work. The scoring of this work was left off part way through; this is one of the passages orchestrated at a later date.
342 - Should be clear who. No, not him, the other one.... 
344 - one of the pieces I loved most as a teenager - extraordinary texturally and timbral invention, and superlative orchestration, so that it sounds as fantastic as it looks, not just the grey sludge it could have become. Deliberately scored for a Haydnesque orchestra. The composer - whose name is also that of an important political figure of the last century from the country of 325 - is self-taught, but when younger played the national instrument of his country and in a rock band (called Influx, apparently). His music is both ultra-complex and instantly accessible.
34 - palindromic. Who does that sort of thing....?

[(poco) Sforzando]

Is 332 Bernd Alois Zimmermann? I know the work as Requiem for a Young Poet. Requiem for a Dead Poet sounds a bit tautological.

Will work on these clues later in the day....

[lukeottevanger]

No - that's why I gave that work as a clue! To see if anyone fell for it....  Requiem for a Dead Poet is the correct title, though in translation.

(And for those not sure what I'm on about, this Requiem for a dead poet is another work by the composer of 332, not the work itself)

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

# 317, Bruckner, Christus factus est pro nobis...

[lukeottevanger]

Correct 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

# 303 Cage, must be Riverrun (the first word of FW) Or, perhaps, Roaratorio?

[lukeottevanger]

No. Actually, I feel a bit mean about this one - it's essentially just a generic but specifically Cageian title.

[lukeottevanger]

Attachments restored! 

For the sake of those who didn't download my PDF, here are all the new scores that were contained in it, though some (indicated) have already been guessed. Clues to all these a couple of posts up.

LO 329 (Copland, Piano Fantasy)
LO 330

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LO 331

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LO 332

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LO 333 - Schubert, G major Quartet

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LO 334 - Nielsen, Flute Concerto

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LO 335 - Haydn, Farewell Symphony

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LO 336

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LO 337 - Dukas, L'Aprenti Sorcier

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LO 338 - Strauss, Die Frau ohne Schatten

and in full, the letter to my great-great-great uncle from which this scrap comes.

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LO 339 - Berlioz, Harold in Italy

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LO 340 - Stravinsky, Threni

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LO 341