Quiz: Mystery scores

[lukeottevanger]

154 - composer has already been on this thread more than once

[Guido]

I assume that the orgasm piece is the piece that you PMed me about, so I'll keep stum.

[lukeottevanger]

It might be - use your stylistic knowledge. And stop giving the impression that we have some kind of dodgy PM relationship      But, hey, if you have the knowledge, it doesn't matter how you got it.

155 - no clues on any of the following just yet

[lukeottevanger]

156 -

[lukeottevanger]

157 -

[Guido]

Well it looks exactly as I would expect a score of this composer to look. I won't claim it as it will be more fun for other people to find it out.

And stop giving the impression that we have some kind of dodgy PM relationship 

lol!

[lukeottevanger]

158 -

[lukeottevanger]

159 -

[lukeottevanger]

160 - Steve will probably get this quite quickly

[lukeottevanger]

161 - composer has been on the thread already, but I think he is obvious anyway. It's the piece that may prove harder.

[lukeottevanger]

162 - I've left the title of this first part in place, but not the overall title.

[lukeottevanger]

163 - again, a movement title in place. Each movement of this piece draws on some other piece or musical type.

[Guido]

LO 162 Peace Piece by Lou Harrison
LO 163 Arcadiana by Thomas Adès

I haven't heard either of these. Any good?!

[lukeottevanger]

Wow, that was quick! 

Did I leave any careless clues, or are you, in fact, a genius?

[Guido]

No genius here. Your throne of ultimate score knowledge is not contested. The fact you left the title in may have made it a tad too easy!

[lukeottevanger]

Did I? Where? It's getting late, perhaps that's why I can't see it! (I chucked these two in at the last minute, too, but that's no excuse)

[Guido]

"Invocation for the health of all beings", and "O Albion".

[lukeottevanger]

Oh yes, them. Well, I left them in on purpose, obviously and I did think that someone with a little nous might google them. That's why I left them, of course - this quiz is no fun if the things aren't gettable at all. But based on some of my last ones - which I think are very easy but which haven't been guessed yet - I wasn't expecting anyone to get 'em so quickly.

[lukeottevanger]

You can download most of the score to Arcadiana at the BMIC. Each section centres around some Arcadian vision - O Albion, of course, is Edwardian, Elgarian England. You can see, I hope, the Enigma (Nimrod) reference - the held pianissimo G pivoting into rich E flat major, with a sequential Elgarian tone. But this isn't a pastiche, it is multilayered and very effective. As with George Benjamin, I find I prefer Ades' earlier (but not earliest) music, which is probably a sign of my own immature ear.

[karlhenning]

161 - composer has been on the thread already, but I think he is obvious anyway. It's the piece that may prove harder.

So it won't be enough for me to name Webern, I must scare up the piece