Name that piece! The game

[Gurn Blanston]

Take it away, Gurnatron....post the next clip

I'm at work for the next couple of hours. No music here...

If someone would like to slip in here with a clip, be my guest. Otherwise, I think I have some totally atonal Mozart at home waiting for an opportunity like this...

[DavidW]

Oh no not Gurn!  We'll probably get Haydn through the lens of Xenakis!

[Brian]

If someone would like to slip in here with a clip, be my guest.

I think I'll just slip in one of my really short famous clips. Shouldn't take more than 14 seconds to figure out... unless it's a trick...

[Amfortas]

I want to say Prokofiev

[Hattoff]

Well done to Gurnatron..

[Lethevich]

I think I'll just slip in one of my really short famous clips. Shouldn't take more than 14 seconds to figure out... unless it's a trick...

It sounds a bit like Holst's Planets - I haven't hjeard it for a while, but it could be some quiet section I don't remember. I suppose it does seem to lack some of that piece's swagger, though.

[Brian]

Neither Holst nor Prokofiev... in fact, those composers are neither the correct answer nor the incorrect answer I expected to be given! 

I think that Karl would be able to furnish us with the correct incorrect answer, if that makes sense 

[Amfortas]

Neither Holst nor Prokofiev... in fact, those composers are neither the correct answer nor the incorrect answer I expected to be given! 

I think that Karl would be able to furnish us with the correct incorrect answer, if that makes sense 

"Correct incorrect", does this mean it's an imitation by one composer of another? Someone imitating Stravinsky for example (which occured to me, since the clip recalls The Firebird to my ears)

[Brian]

"Correct incorrect", does this mean it's an imitation by one composer of another? Someone imitating Stravinsky for example (which occured to me, since the clip recalls The Firebird to my ears)

Ah-ha! You have gleaned my intent. There is a notable similarity between the posted clip and the Danse infernale by Stravinsky (very beginning of the video).

So it was a trick after all.    Now, before Gurn uploads his clip, our task is to discover which composer is guilty of a bit of imitation of a master. 

[Amfortas]

Ah-ha! You have gleaned my intent. There is a notable similarity between the posted clip and the Danse infernale by Stravinsky (very beginning of the video).

So it was a trick after all.    Now, before Gurn uploads his clip, our task is to discover which composer is guilty of a bit of imitation of a master. 

Hmm, so this composer is less than a master....a lot of film music imitates Stravinsky et al....so is he a film composer (not that it makes him a lesser figure)?

[Brian]

This composer never wrote a film score (at least, I don't know any and it's unlikely he did) although due to the fame of some of his work, IMDB credits him with taking part in very nearly 100 films!

By the way, Gurn, as soon as you've got your clip ready let me know and I will solicit a "last call."

[DavidW]

Alright here is another Gurnian deception perhaps? posted by me on behalf of Gurn.

Quiz 2.mp3

[Amfortas]

Elgar String Quartet?

[Gurn Blanston]

Elgar String Quartet?

That's a very interesting guess.

No, not Elgar.   



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[Hattoff]

Stravinsky used Tchaikovsky's arrangements of russian folksongs in the Firebird and his music has been used a lot in films? Or Rachmaninov?

[Gurn Blanston]

Stravinsky used Tchaikovsky's arrangements of russian folksongs in the Firebird and his music has been used a lot in films? Or Rachmaninov?

Yes, I've heard that. This is none of those 3 though.

[Amfortas]

Yes, I've heard that. This is none of those 3 though.

Still guessing yours Gurnatron -- a string quartet? Some of the harmony sounds 20th Century so I am thinking it might be a composer who is not known for this medium....perhaps Sibelius "Voces Intimae"? (Although I doubt it) 

[Gurn Blanston]

Still guessing yours Gurnatron -- a string quartet? Some of the harmony sounds 20th Century so I am thinking it might be a composer who is not known for this medium....perhaps Sibelius "Voces Intimae"? (Although I doubt it) 

Yes. A string quartet.

Interesting harmonic capabilities.

No, not Sibelius.

[Brian]

Yes, I've heard that. This is none of those 3 though.

He meant the orchestral clip. Hattoff is in fact right: it was Stravinsky doing the stealing, in The Firebird! My line about "which composer is guilty of a bit of imitation of a master" was a deceit - Stravinsky is guilty and the master is what we're looking for, not vice versa!

It's not Tchaikovsky or Rachmaninov, though. This is the last call: when it's time for me to have dinner I'll post the answer.

Gurn, I have no clue at all what your clip is!

[Gurn Blanston]

He meant the orchestral clip. Hattoff is in fact right: it was Stravinsky doing the stealing, in The Firebird! My line about "which composer is guilty of a bit of imitation of a master" was a deceit - Stravinsky is guilty and the master is what we're looking for, not vice versa!

It's not Tchaikovsky or Rachmaninov, though. This is the last call: when it's time for me to have dinner I'll post the answer.

Gurn, I have no clue at all what your clip is!

No wonder I was confused! 

Well, Brian, do you like it though? Seems like a pretty forward-looking piece of work to me.