Quiz: Mystery scores

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rappy

#4640
September 18, 2009, 12:03:39 PM
Astonishing, especially that you got the Brahms so very quickly!  :)

Luke

#4641
September 18, 2009, 12:16:15 PM
One of my favourite pieces - I should have got it first of all!  :)

(poco) Sforzando

#4642
September 18, 2009, 12:29:30 PM
Is 9 Heldenleben?
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

rappy

#4643
September 18, 2009, 12:35:09 PM
No. Same era, different composer, not programmatic.

@Luke: Yeah, also one of my favourites! Especially with Leinsdorf and Richter. But as the left hand contains no motivic material, I thought it was very difficult.

Luke

#4644
September 18, 2009, 12:40:39 PM
I heard the harmony, though, and felt the shape of the phrase from that and the (harmonic) rhythm. Plus, the fact that this B flat piano concerto gives an important role to the key of B minor (as does Mozart's last one - was this deliberate, I wonder....)...that pushed me to the answer.

Yes, I thought that one Sfz suggested as Heldenleben looked very Straussian too....wonder who it could be, then....

rappy

#4645
September 18, 2009, 12:46:59 PM
Yeah, of course, the harmoninc rhythm with the Neapolitanian chord is quite characteristic...

The piece Sfz mixed up with Ein Heldenleben is very famous, but it's difficult to recognize from that tiny bass line, I must admit. You can guess the tempo and you know the key...

Luke

#4646
September 18, 2009, 01:28:33 PM
Is the second one a solo piano arrangement of the first of the Brahms Hungarian Dances? I'm pretty sure about that...

Luke

#4647
September 18, 2009, 01:29:55 PM
Yes, I've just checked it  :)

Luke

#4648
September 18, 2009, 01:43:11 PM
and the third one from the end, which I think is the one Sfz meant as looking a bit like Strauss, is from the first movement of Mahler 9

Luke

#4649
September 18, 2009, 01:46:13 PM
Oh, no, Sfz thought the one after it was Strauss...ah well! Neither of them is, evidently!

Guido

#4650
September 18, 2009, 02:58:49 PM
I'm in awe as ever Luke!
Geologist.

The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away

rappy

#4651
September 18, 2009, 05:05:26 PM
Luke is correct on both !  8)

Luke

#4652
September 22, 2009, 06:59:16 AM
I've been struggling with getting down to sorting out the list, but to be honest it is taking me ages!

but just for now, prompted by something I only just read a minute ago, here is another one to be getting on with:

rappy

#4653
September 22, 2009, 01:01:57 PM
Could that be Strauss?

Luke

#4654
September 22, 2009, 01:25:02 PM
No, not Strauss. Actually, I think I will reveal that one - it was supposed to be a clever trick  ::) but a tiny bit of internet research suggests it might be wrong

Earlier today I read something which related the story of how Humperdinck wrote 7 bars of Parsifal, in order to lengthen a scene-change slightly, and how his addition is still in the performed and published work. My sample is that section - so, you were supposed to say Wagner and smug old me was supposed to say, no, though it looks a hell of a lot like him....  ::) ::) ::)

However, later I read that no copy of Humperdinck's additional bars are in existence anywhere. so the joke is on me....

typical  ;D

Luke

#4655
November 05, 2009, 01:33:39 AM
Well, I really ought to clear up this thread and get it back on track....I keep getting drawn away from doing that little job (not so little, it's quite a confusing job sorting through the thread and tying up loose ends, and I'd actually already spent a few hours doing so when the laptop I was working on had an unfortunate run-in with a nice big glass of G+T and couldn't cope with the sudden alcohol poisoning -so I will have to start again >:( Soon, I promise...)

And I've got a really nice score to share with you all when that's done...well, I like it anyway. Having great fun trawling the further reaches of IMSLP at the moment...

Maciek

#4656
November 08, 2009, 02:28:58 PM Last Edit: November 08, 2009, 02:32:32 PM by Maciek
Quote from: Taxes- on July 12, 2009, 09:48:48 PM
thanks! This seems like a very interesting thread to me, this last page alone introduced me to two composers I knew nothing about: Ms. Bacewicz (MM116 is her 5th string quartet?) and Mr. Szymanowski (MM113 is the String Quartet No. 2 OP. 56, found it with the help of the bartok/casella hint :)).

I never got back to you about those two, did I? They are both correct! :D 8)

[BTW, I have no idea why I stopped posting new ones after 120; I had a few more ready - 119 was actually supposed to lead up to something specific - but now I can't find the files on my computer! :-\]

secondwind

#4657
November 24, 2009, 06:38:41 PM
I looked, and looked, and looked, and listened, and heard. . . absolutely nothing recognizable.  Meow.

PerfectWagnerite

#4658
November 25, 2009, 12:43:26 PM
All the chickenscratch on the score, like filled and open circles, clearly point to something. To what I have no idea.

Maciek

#4659
November 25, 2009, 10:07:49 PM
Could anyone locate Luke's last index post for me please? :-* I seem to be unable to find it... :-\
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