Quiz: Mystery scores

[karlhenning]

Maciek's mopping up, here : )

[Maciek]

  I did use to have an avatar with a mop, does anyone still remember?

But frankly, I'm stumped on the remaining ones, so no more mopping from me (at least for the time being, until the next batch of clues arrives perhaps).



Oh, and thanks for notes about Dance Suite! Had no idea.

[karlhenning]

Most of the rest are obscure enough, that I should probably just reveal 'em.

I'll let them set a bit yet, though.  And one item is standard repertory, at least in principle.  Whether a conductor would make any traditional cuts is another question . . . .

[Luke]

Won't be here for a while, not sure how long, so I will leave you with a little gift. Probably quite easy to work out what these are - but what is the link between the two? The last 3 are all the same thing, I'm just feeling generous and giving you three different views of it...

[rappy]

Some hints for the scores I set:

3: On The next page, the violins take over the bass motif - molto agitato - the music approaches a climax.
Famous piece for large orchestra.

4: This is the closing section of a sonata exposition.

6: This is from a piece written for young people.

8: Long movement, slow tempo. The key signature could be another hint.

They pieces are well known. I'm sure you all know them very well!

[Guido]

But this is just the first system, of course; you're right, Maciek, it's the Symphonie voor losse snaren.  What seemed to be amiss in the description?

What do we think of this work? I thought it rather arid and dull - a shame because its such a wonderful idea.

[listener]

It would be useful if some of the unsolved mysteries could be re-posted, as the idea of searching through the 244 pages to find them is a turn-off to someone approaching this topic for the first time.
I'll add a simple one, there are three eighth-notes (D's a minor third above the shown B^b) for the horns that are not shown.   This should be almost a trivia question.

[Luke]

It would be useful if some of the unsolved mysteries could be re-posted, as the idea of searching through the 244 pages to find them is a turn-off to someone approaching this topic for the first time.
I'll add a simple one, there are three eighth-notes (D's a minor third above the shown B^b) for the horns that are not shown.

There's no need to search for any of the old scores, there's always a list of scores solved and unsolved within the last few pages, and all these scores are hyperlinked from that list. So you only need to click...

it's late here and I'm not sure what your new one could be, OTTOMH, so I'm going to have to sleep on it! Glad to see you join the Greatest Thread on GMG! 

[rappy]

Luke, I am sure you'd be able to reveal all the scores I set. 

Btw.: Don't know the new score, either. Looks like a parody over Beethoven's 5th. But it's not Kagel? 

[Brian]

Here's a real mystery score! Assuming you guys take requests. 

A friend of a friend posted this on Facebook. My friend commented on it, enabling me to see it, but the person playing it is not my friend, thereby un-enabling me from asking what it is. But I really am curious to know what the piece is, for reasons which will be obvious to you. Does anybody know what this could be?

The person who posted it is a cellist.

EDIT: A bit of stalking reveals that last week she was playing Corigliano.

[listener]

That looks like it's printed on carbon paper.    Here's a doctored copy

[rappy]

Hey,

my little game has grown a little bit! There are many more levels now with some new specials... let's see if you'll reach the end! Luke?

http://www.dgsp-rheinland-pfalz.de/musikspiel/index.php

Enjoy!!

[listener]

Some hints for the scores I set:

They pieces are well known. I'm sure you all know them very well!

I'm having problems matching item, bild and hint numbers, and my computer is ailing as well.
maybe this is Strauss'  Til Eulenspiegel?

[rappy]

I'm sorry, but Luke already revealed that one. It's from Mahler 9, first movement.

[greg]

I'm sorry, but Luke already revealed that one. It's from Mahler 9, first movement.

lol, I just saw this:

I'm having problems matching item, bild and hint numbers, and my computer is ailing as well.
maybe this is Strauss'  Til Eulenspiegel?

and knew what it was, even though I had no idea it had even been posted already.

[rappy]

Hehe. You should try out my quiz (the link I posted above). 

In the upper levels there will be samples like this:



Do you know it? 

(No, it's not necessarily baroque)

[karlhenning]

Refresh:

kh28  This piece is connected to an event which the composer found shattering.

kh34  In this piece, at least, the composer was at pains not to appear naughty.

kh46  This piece is scarcely known, but the piece the composer wrote immediately before was an international success.

kh49  Older band?

[karlhenning]

Might add that the composers of kh34 and kh46 were already represented in that "batch" by one other piece, each.

[karlhenning]

The composer of kh28 is their countryman.

[Luke]

By coincidence, Karl, am just refreshing the list of links right now, though I have to go out for a while and won't be able to post it till later....

Will be good to dig into these again. Rappy's quiz gets very hard once you're past the first 35 - he's a swine!! I've managed no 36, but 37 is stumping me at the moment...