Music quiz

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

A fun quiz that hurt my brain

http://www.classicfm.com/discover/music-quizzes/ultimate-music-theory/#AhCedocAp110sWyE.97

I got 17/20

[(poco) Sforzando]

A fun quiz that hurt my brain

http://www.classicfm.com/discover/music-quizzes/ultimate-music-theory/#AhCedocAp110sWyE.97

I got 17/20

I got 15. I might have done better if the images weren't so tiny (and some of it was just impatience on my part, like that question on species counterpoint in the movable C clefs). I didn't know the jazz scale, and I had trouble with the RI2 question as I read it as R12. Oh - and I think the Schenker question could have had two valid responses.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

I got the Schenker question wrong......probably due to my prejudice against what he tried to prove in music has kind of led to me ignoring his methods a little too much....... 

[(poco) Sforzando]

I got the Schenker question wrong......probably due to my prejudice against what he tried to prove in music has kind of led to me ignoring his methods a little too much....... 

I'm not too strong on Schenker myself. I got the Mahler 1 wrong through sheer carelessness.

[Luke]

I got 18. My incorrect answers were the trombone gliss one (can never remember those without an orchestration textbook to hand!) and I misread the Schoenberg row as asking for R2 rather than RI2 (though R2 wasn't there either, so I just guessed!)

[Luke]

There's also this one http://www.classicfm.com/discover/music-quizzes/name-the-piece/  but it's very easy - compare it to our mystery scores thread, for instance! I got 20/20 but I think most of us would.

[amw]

19/20. Fuck Schenker.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

I agree. Schenker can go suck donkey balls.

[Dax]

Does Schenkerian analysis reveal anything useful? If so, what? In not more than 3 (shortish) sentences.

[(poco) Sforzando]

There's also this one http://www.classicfm.com/discover/music-quizzes/name-the-piece/  but it's very easy - compare it to our mystery scores thread, for instance! I got 20/20 but I think most of us would.

I only missed the Saint-Saens / Offenbach - again sheer carelessness; the tempo gave it away.

[some guy]

Does Schenkerian analysis reveal anything useful? If so, what? In not more than 3 (shortish) sentences.

About music? Probably not much. About analysts? Probably quite a lot. But even with "a lot," we are still not even close to "useful."

(I didn't know your attitude towards fragments, so I didn't try to keep my answer to three items.)

Another, related question: Do the classicalfm quizzes reveal anything useful?

[Sergeant Rock]

There's also this one http://www.classicfm.com/discover/music-quizzes/name-the-piece/  but it's very easy - compare it to our mystery scores thread, for instance! I got 20/20 but I think most of us would.

I only got 14 




Sarge

[(poco) Sforzando]

I only got 14 

Sarge

No wonder your pic looks so mad.

[amw]

Another, related question: Do the classicalfm quizzes reveal anything useful?

It did serve to call up a few of the long-abandoned mental pathways I developed in theory classes, I guess. These days I consider anything that gets my brain out of its stupor to be useful.

[some guy]

Fair enough!

[Monsieur Croche]

Does Schenkerian analysis reveal anything useful? If so, what? In not more than 3 (shortish) sentences.

So, it was intended really for Tonal Music, only, and with that other very Teutonic Preoccupation of the era in which Schenker lived ~ get this, its really hysterically comic ~ to prove through analysis that German Music was superior to all other music (Zeig Heil, lol)

Elliot Carter had looked into it when it was becoming more than a little trend, and said he found it of little use other than showing/helping some one realize, for example, that over the course of its play a piece had generally descended one octave.

Contrary to that, for that older common practice rep some performers have told me it was useful to them in getting more of a handle on the whole of a piece, not so much for 'understanding' or the interpretation of it, but for the donkey work of memorization.


Best regards.

[The new erato]

I only got 14 




Sarge

16, and full-fledged muso here.

[Pat B]

There's also this one http://www.classicfm.com/discover/music-quizzes/name-the-piece/  but it's very easy - compare it to our mystery scores thread, for instance! I got 20/20 but I think most of us would.

18/20. Missed an opera and a choral work. (Of the two operas I got right, I knew one but the other was a wild-ass guess.)

On the theory quiz, I got a few of the easy ones, but most of it is out of my league.

[Monsieur Croche]

These quizzes. my goodness... if I kept track, music / art / art that inspired composers and pairing those up /  grammar, / geography / history, etc. they would have me out as a flaming genius, which I am not.

Though I didn't ace this one, I was (yet again) told I was seriously 'smart,' or a music maven, or whatever cutesy copy was written. I did not ace it because I would not bother to transpose all those alto and tenor clef questions, so either guessed or passed them by unanswered -- which, folks, shows just how lame these are if I still got a next to the highest score :-)

What these quizzes do most is gather information for the site and its advertisers for the duration you are busy with them, and inevitably flash a lot of ads in your peripheral vision... and people seem to just love them.

So I have, by the measure of these quizzes, serious music theory / music history / knowledge of rep chops; that and the fare gets me on the bus.

[Pat B]

What these quizzes do most is gather information for the site and its advertisers for the duration you are busy with them, and inevitably flash a lot of ads in your peripheral vision... and people seem to just love them.

I don't mind giving a few clicks to classicfm. I mostly avoid giving them to trolls like Hurwitz and Lebrecht, though.