Quiz: Mystery scores

[Luke]

I've got a disc with no 6 on it...

[amw]

Hmm. I'll look harder. They do seem to be fascinating pieces.

[Luke]

Fascinating composer, all round. His image too, is fascinating, somehow thoroughly modern - this picture always surprises me for that reason:

[Luke]

Where does one get a velveteen shirt like than nowadays....? 

[EigenUser]

Believe it or not, I've actually heard of Stripsody.

Even though I'm not good at this (though I did get the Dutilleux WOOHOO! ), I do enjoy looking at the new scores.

Two more. Fire away!

18.


19.

[Luke]

Is the second one Nouvelles Aventures? (Ligeti, natch). I only have the score to Aventures, and I don't think this page is in that one, but it looks very similar...

[EigenUser]

Is the second one Nouvelles Aventures? (Ligeti, natch). I only have the score to Aventures, and I don't think this page is in that one, but it looks very similar...

Yes!

[kishnevi]

Yes!

I was wondering if it might be something from Grand Macabre.

[EigenUser]

I was wondering if it might be something from Grand Macabre.

Good guess, but Le Grand Macabre actually resembles normal music much more than you'd think. The entire score for the opera can be viewed here from Ligeti's publisher:
http://www.schott-music.com/shop/9/show,158755.html

[Dax]

Yes to both.

I'm really surprised that I've been unable to find any recordings of the van Dieren quartets—just scores floating around. You'd think someone would have tackled them at some point in the past century or so.

I have a recording of no. 1

[EigenUser]

(the day I found all three volumes of that score for about £20, in Brian Jordan's in Cambridge - a day I will always remember!)

Luke, this is a stupid question, but what is the quality of the three volumes of Des Canyons aux Etoiles...? Are they full-sized and well put together? The library at my university has all three volumes and I have them currently checked out (along with pretty much the rest of Messiaen's oeuvre ). The ones from the library are full-size, but I'm not sure if that is what the publisher rents or sells (some libraries somehow get a hold of rental scores).  I have recently been loving this piece and I think I might by each volume, one by one. Especially since I'm working out a solo piano arrangement of Bryce Canyons.... I'd hate to pay that much and receive such a low-quality product, even though it is the only one available. Either way, I'll end up getting the three eventually, but I'm wary after getting Et Exspecto....

[Luke]

Oh, they're beautiful volumes, full size, good quality, lovely things. I will try to take a photo of their exteriors when time permits!

Any clues on any of the unidentified scores in the offing? I will do some for mine soon, too.

[EigenUser]

Oh, they're beautiful volumes, full size, good quality, lovely things. I will try to take a photo of their exteriors when time permits!

Nice! Thanks! I am tempted to order volume II first... Appel... and Bryce Canyons... are two of my favorite movements.

Any clues on any of the unidentified scores in the offing? I will do some for mine soon, too.

If I checked correctly, the only one of mine remaining open is #18. Hmmm... how can I give a clue without giving anything away? Well, he was best friends with another (much more famous) composer. That probably isn't that helpful, though.

[Luke]

Another one to be getting on with, just for the hell of it (am just listening to this piece, that's why...)

[lescamil]

Another one to be getting on with, just for the hell of it (am just listening to this piece, that's why...)

That's the Messiaen Cinq Rechants.

[Luke]

Yep, indeed it is 

[Maciek]

On the old thread I did spend an inordinate amount of time keeping score (of the score scores  ) and posting updated lists of what had been found and what was waiting to be identified. It took ages, and it was an ongoing process, but that thread got so huge that it needed to be done. I think to merge the scores of this one and that one would take forever, which I don't really have any more, but I agree that ideally it would be nice to make the two run together...

I imagine it's a real lot of work - and I very much appreciated you doing it on the old thread, thank you very much indeed - but, precisely because of the amount of work, I wasn't really thinking about one person keeping track of everything. Rather, what I meant was that each quiz poster would keep track of his own quiz scores.

Since no one seems to have anything against doing a merge, I'll go ahead with it. It will make it easier to search all the quiz scores (one search instead of two).

[Done. ]

[EigenUser]

I imagine it's a real lot of work - and I very much appreciated you doing it on the old thread, thank you very much indeed - but, precisely because of the amount of work, I wasn't really thinking about one person keeping track of everything. Rather, what I meant was that each quiz poster would keep track of his own quiz scores.

Since no one seems to have anything against doing a merge, I'll go ahead with it. It will make it easier to search all the quiz scores (one search instead of two).

[Done. ]

Appreciate it, thanks! I actually was thinking the same thing about each poster keeping track of their own posts. I'll try and get mine organized later.

[Luke]

Interesting, I will get going on it soon. In the meantime, some more, just for fun....

[Luke]

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