Quiz: Mystery scores

[lukeottevanger]

Speaking of which:

[Guido]

Thats five post modern masterpieces on the reading list right there then!

[Chrone]

A total guess, with no detective work:

375: Stravinsky, Piano-Rag-Music

[lukeottevanger]

No. There's a reason I put this sample where I did in the thread, totally on the spur of the moment. IOW the conversation above it is a clue to the work's identity.

[karlhenning]

One of those The Context Is the Message deals 

[lukeottevanger]

Very much so. I'd add that there isn't really anything in the music itself which is much of a clue, nor is the composer well-known, though he sort-of is.

[lukeottevanger]

First list, part one
and
First list, part two

Second list (one long part)

Third list (one long part)


New list:

Set by Luke
362 - Carter - Diversions  - (Steve)
363 - ? -
364 - Mozart - Impressario overture - (Mark)
365 - ? -
366 - ? -
367 - Riley - In C - (Mark)
368 - Babbitt - ? - (Steve)
369 - Feldman - Intersection (which one?) - (Guido)
370 - Bryars - Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet - (Guido)
371 - Arnold - Hobson's Choice - (Chrone)
372 - Cage - 4'33" - (Mark)
373 - Guy - Inscape-Tableaux 5 - (Chrone)
374 - ? -
375 - ? -

Set by Guido
53 - ? -


Clues to mine in a few minutes

[lukeottevanger]

Here we are:

363 - is by an extreme, provocative and controversial experimental composer, British, who has been on this thread more than once. This score exudes an aura of the scholastic textbook which is not inappropriate for this piece.

365 - from the short score to an opera by one of the 20th centuries finest lyrical voices; the opera is named after one of its characters, and that character sings on this page.

366 - This piece is for one, two or three people.

368 - Babbitt, as has been guessed. I linked it to the Carter Diversion earlier, because they appear in the same source.

370 - you've had a fair few clues already, but have time and time again failed to get this one, which is rather contradictory. English composer, has been on this thread before, shares something very specific with Barry Guy. This is one of his earliest and certainly one of his most famous pieces. The B side of a version of the piece released in 1993 made it no 8 in the Dutch charts, apparently. The notation isn't really very good here - I'd write the piece in a straightforward 4/4 myself.

374 - By a composer one of whose piano works, says Ian Pace, is amongst the three or four hardest pieces ever written for the instrument.

375 - to repeat: this would be pretty much impossible were it not for the fraternal context given by the previous posts.

[greg]

374- is it Richard Barrett?

[lukeottevanger]

No, one of the other ones! 

[greg]

okay, my second guess will be Finnissey.

[lukeottevanger]

No.

[(poco) Sforzando]

English composer, has been on this thread before, shares something very specific with Barry Guy.

Both male?

Barry Guy used to play with Michael Nyman.

[lukeottevanger]

Really? What did he play?  0:)

[M forever]

Barry Guy is a bass player, but he has that in common with a lot of people (including yours truly).

Nobody knows what 370 is. Please just tell us. It is getting tedious.

[lukeottevanger]

No, I'll leave it a little longer. It ought to be easy now. Who else on my previous lists - British composer, mind you - is a bass player?

Oh, and what he shares with Guy is not just that he's a bassist, it's that he's a jazz bassist (or an ex one).

[(poco) Sforzando]

No, I'll leave it a little longer. It ought to be easy now. Who else on my previous lists - British composer, mind you - is a bass player?

Oh, and what he shares with Guy is not just that he's a bassist, it's that he's a jazz bassist (or an ex one).

Gavin Bryars again?

[Guido]

Gavin Bryars... aah I see that Sfz beat me too it.

[lukeottevanger]

Yep, him again, but looking very different from previous scores on this thread. One of his two most famous pieces. Though not really his tune at all.....

[karlhenning]

I am glad of this further information;  for one thing, it means that I really have never known