Quiz: Mystery scores

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

LO 379 Copland? Copland was with Paul Bowles in Tangiers in those years. Or is it Paul Bowles?

[lukeottevanger]

I knew leaving the place/date in was too generous.....  One of those is correct.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Copland was in Morocco from September to November 1931 (according to Neil Butterworth's 'The music of Aaron Copland' (Toccata Press, 1985).

I think it's a piano piece by Bowles, who was a pupil of Copland's.

Tamanar!

[lukeottevanger]

Even though I did leave in a massive clue, that's still ever so slightly too good, Johan, I must say.

Did you find the website from which I got this? Wonderful stuff....

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Yes, that's where I found the title in the end...

[Guido]

a little blague.

[lukeottevanger]

I don't know, but it's definitely quite a minor piece. Boom boom. 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I don't know, but it's definitely quite a minor piece. Boom boom. 

Someone had to do it... 

[lukeottevanger]

Someone had to do it... 

Exactly. This thread would have lost all credibility if that gag hadn't been made.

[Maciek]

Why do you say that?

Er... because of the problems with spelling?

[lukeottevanger]

There are other ways to explain that, though. Whatever, this composer wasn't dyslexic AFAIK.

[Maciek]

Guido, yours apparently contains a free translation of the German phrase "Muss es sein?"...

[Maciek]

There are other ways to explain that, though. Whatever, this composer wasn't dyslexic AFAIK.

Well, I was being only half-serious (and half-mean ).

[lukeottevanger]

The more obvious explanation for spelling mistakes is the correct one in this case.

[lukeottevanger]

But here, have another one...

LO 380

[Guido]

Maciek, where do you get that idea from? Muss es sein, literally means 'must it be'.

Mine is very unfair as it is unpublished and quite obviously not really a piece. I'll give you title of it, so you just need to find the composer. Should be pretty easy.

It's called: Election memo. 

[Mark G. Simon]

378 looks like the 2nd violin part to some 19th century opera. (which, of course doesn't come anywhere close to identifying it, but I figured I'd drop in and say "howdy")

[karlhenning]

Always glad of a visit, Mark.

[lukeottevanger]

Not 19th century, though only a year or two off. And not opera either, though the composer was also an opera composer.

[lukeottevanger]

It's a bit of a mean one, this, I admit - there's no easy way to guess this one, though I'd advise you at least to think about what I said to Maciek a few posts ago: the more obvious explanation for spelling mistakes is the correct one in this case.