Quiz: Mystery scores

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lukeottevanger

#4020
October 15, 2008, 03:00:23 PM
No. Remember the 'lexicological' bit - I simply mean that this composer would be very close to Brian in the dictionary.

I'm very generous with the clues tonight, I think!

And the countermelody?

(poco) Sforzando

#4021
October 15, 2008, 03:09:19 PM
Quote from: lukeottevanger on October 15, 2008, 02:52:20 PM
You didn't mean 391, I suppose....

The Finnish tenor in the Marschallin's boudoir . . .

385
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

J.Z. Herrenberg

#4022
October 15, 2008, 03:21:50 PM
Quote from: lukeottevanger on October 15, 2008, 03:00:23 PM
No. Remember the 'lexicological' bit - I simply mean that this composer would be very close to Brian in the dictionary.

I'm very generous with the clues tonight, I think!

And the countermelody?

A chorale of sorts. Rhythmically the piece sounds familiar...
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

lukeottevanger

#4024
October 15, 2008, 03:29:20 PM
Quote from: Jezetha on October 15, 2008, 03:21:50 PM
A chorale of sorts. Rhythmically the piece sounds familiar...

Looks like a chorale, and I suppose it could be. But it's a popular, secular tune.

lukeottevanger

#4025
October 15, 2008, 03:55:55 PM
If you can identify the composer - which ought to be possible from my clue - and the counter melody, then you will certainly be able to get the piece. I've just checked by plugging the requisite keywords into Google!

J.Z. Herrenberg

#4026
October 15, 2008, 04:02:34 PM
Quote from: lukeottevanger on October 15, 2008, 03:55:55 PM
If you can identify the composer - which ought to be possible from my clue - and the counter melody, then you will certainly be able to get the piece. I've just checked by plugging the requisite keywords into Google!

This is a case of something familiar that's just eluding you. I'll try again tomorrow. It's late now.

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

Guido

#4027
October 15, 2008, 04:06:57 PM
Presumably the composer is Britten or Bridge... (or Boughton  ;) - the first name I can think of backwards alphabetically!)
Geologist.

The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away

J.Z. Herrenberg

#4028
October 15, 2008, 11:59:09 PM
Britten, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra?
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

lukeottevanger

#4029
October 16, 2008, 12:32:26 AM
No, though I can see why you'd think that. The counter melody is an even more famous tune, which you've probably known a long time though you've forgotten it for now.

By the way, it is by one of the composers Guido guessed at last night, but not the one you've just guessed at. So that limits it to two...

lukeottevanger

#4030
October 16, 2008, 12:33:50 AM
Also BTW, the countermelody - which is in the glockenspiel, for instance - is in media res on the page I presented. It starts a page or so before.

J.Z. Herrenberg

#4031
October 16, 2008, 01:07:48 AM
Well, there is a link between Danny Boy (aka Londonderry Air) and Frank Bridge... But he uses it in a string quartet.

This is frustrating! Come on, Guido, help me!
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. -- Plato

lukeottevanger

#4032
October 16, 2008, 02:45:28 AM
You're getting closer to the type of tune quoted here, but it isn't Danny Boy (and it isn't Irish). I'd advise you to identify the tune first.

And yes, the composer is Bridge.

lukeottevanger

#4033
October 16, 2008, 08:07:17 AM
Some more, to take me to 400  ::) Quite a few here are parts-of-pages, highlighting interesting or famous parts. Some famous ones in here, and at least one composer represented twice.

LO 394, 395, 396, 397

lukeottevanger

#4034
October 16, 2008, 08:08:12 AM
LO 398, 399, 400

karlhenning

#4035
October 16, 2008, 08:12:56 AM
400 is from Stravinsky's Excentrique from the Quatre Etudes, isn't it?

lukeottevanger

#4036
October 16, 2008, 08:13:57 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on October 16, 2008, 08:12:56 AM
400 is from Stravinsky's Excentrique from the Quatre Etudes, isn't it?

Very close indeed but no.

karlhenning

#4037
October 16, 2008, 08:15:47 AM
In its original quartet scoring, from the Three Pieces, I should have said.

lukeottevanger

#4038
October 16, 2008, 08:18:25 AM Last Edit: October 16, 2008, 08:21:20 AM by lukeottevanger
Now we're there! Bonus point - who is this piece imitating?

(poco) Sforzando

#4039
October 16, 2008, 08:19:13 AM
Is 399 from IS's Huxley Variations?

(Away from home without access to scores.)
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."
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