Quiz: Mystery scores

Maciek · December 31, 2010, 10:11:19 AM

MM139

Maciek · December 31, 2010, 10:11:39 AM

MM140

Maciek · December 31, 2010, 10:13:13 AM

Well, I hope these are all sufficiently jolly.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

J.Z. Herrenberg · December 31, 2010, 10:16:03 AM

Quote from: Maciek on December 31, 2010, 10:13:13 AM
Well, I hope these are all sufficiently jolly.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

The same to you! And yes, they're extremely 'jolly', ho ho ho...

(poco) Sforzando · December 31, 2010, 04:21:47 PM

Quote from: Maciek on December 31, 2010, 10:13:13 AM
Well, I hope these are all sufficiently jolly.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Some of these are actually quite easy. What's wrong with you guys - run out of the hard stuff?

133 - SS Carnaval of the Animals
134 - Bach Double
139 - LvB Polonaise
140 - Looks like a Chopin polonaise, one of the early ones with opus.

Luke · January 01, 2011, 12:30:44 AM

Happy New Year, everyone! I'd have got a couple of those....

meanwhile, 136 is the Ravel Concerto in G, and 138 is his Violin Sonata (the second, late one); they bracket a snippet from the Debussy Cello Sonata, no 137.

Maciek · January 18, 2011, 02:42:16 PM

Larry and Luke are both correct, of course (well, at least in the part where Larry was answering the quiz

).

I'm surprised 131 and 132 are still unguessed. Both pieces are pretty famous, I would think. 132 probably more popular in Kempff's piano transcription than in its original form.

How 'bout 122, 127, 130? I'd think anyone who has ever heard any of these pieces would have no trouble recognizing them - these snippets are really quite easy. So I assume nobody knows 122 or 127. But I know for sure that at least a couple of the Mystery score denizens know 130 (how could they not).

Luke · January 18, 2011, 03:10:10 PM

oh, is 131 the Shostakovich 15th Quartet?

Maciek · January 18, 2011, 03:16:17 PM

Yes, it is!

(poco) Sforzando · January 18, 2011, 04:50:36 PM

Quote from: Maciek on January 18, 2011, 02:42:16 PM
Larry and Luke are both correct, of course (well, at least in the part where Larry was answering the quiz ).

What's that supposed to mean?

132 is the siciliano from the Bach flute sonata in Eb, 1031.

rappy · January 19, 2011, 12:40:36 AM

These are two pieces which seem to cause problems in my score-identifying game.

rappy · January 23, 2011, 02:31:04 PM

Do you need hints?

(poco) Sforzando · January 23, 2011, 03:53:45 PM

Quote from: rappy on January 23, 2011, 02:31:04 PM
Do you need hints?

Please. The first looks like Schumann or Mendelssohn, but otherwise I can't track it yet. And I think I've seen the second - but where? A key signature would help.

rappy · January 24, 2011, 05:16:21 AM

I wrote: "These are two pieces which seem to cause problems in my score-identifying game."

Here are the motifs of my game which are from the pieces above:

The latter one contains some wrong notes / articulation / whatever to make it more difficult.

Schumann or Mendelssohn is a very good guess. And I'm sure you've seen the second, it's a famous piece.

rappy · February 06, 2011, 04:50:20 AM

Okay, here's another hint:

opus of (1) - opus of (2) = opus of a) maybe the most popular string quartet and b) the last violin sonata of a famous composer

Then, opus of (1) + opus of (2) = opus of trio with one wind instrument.

(poco) Sforzando · February 06, 2011, 09:46:39 AM

Quote from: rappy on February 06, 2011, 04:50:20 AM
Okay, here's another hint:

opus of (1) - opus of (2) = opus of a) maybe the most popular string quartet and b) the last violin sonata of a famous composer

Then, opus of (1) + opus of (2) = opus of trio with one wind instrument.

So we get the answer by addition and subtraction of opus numbers? Let me work on this!

Yes or no: Is "opus of trio with one wind instrument" 40 or 114 (for Brahms)?

Luke · February 06, 2011, 02:11:23 PM

Well, the first one looks very Schumannesque, as Sfz said immediately - but your answer made it sound as if he wasn't quite right. It did to me, anyway - it meant I didn't check out my Schumann violin sonatas. But he was right in the first place, and so was I - it's the Schumann Violin Sonata no 1, op 105, isn't it?

The other is from Schoenberg's 1st Chamber Symphony

(poco) Sforzando · February 06, 2011, 02:24:44 PM

Quote from: Luke on February 06, 2011, 02:11:23 PM
Well, the first one looks very Schumannesque, as Sfz said immediately - but your answer made it sound as if he wasn't quite right.

Agreed! unfair!

rappy · February 07, 2011, 01:14:16 AM

Quote from: Luke on February 06, 2011, 02:11:23 PM
Well, the first one looks very Schumannesque, as Sfz said immediately - but your answer made it sound as if he wasn't quite right.

Oh, I'm sorry! But if you remember, Luke, you'd already got that one right in my score-identifying game. It's the one Sforzando was stuck at. And the Schönberg is the one you had problems with so far.

So you're right, Sfz, 105+9 = 114 = Brahms!

(poco) Sforzando · February 07, 2011, 04:00:38 AM

Quote from: rappy on February 07, 2011, 01:14:16 AM
Oh, I'm sorry! But if you remember, Luke, you'd already got that one right in my score-identifying game. It's the one Sforzando was stuck at. And the Schönberg is the one you had problems with so far.

So you're right, Sfz, 105+9 = 114 = Brahms!

Then maybe I'll go back to your game and try again! another problem I have with it are the Russian transliterations. I'm used to the Anglo-American versions, and sometimes there are several German ones. I have to do a bit of trial-and-error there.