Quiz: Mystery scores

[greg]

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

LO161- Webern- Klavierstuck (1924)

my first guess! 

[greg]

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

LO155- Babbitt- Philomel

[Larry Rinkel]

158 sure looks like Schumann, but somehow I fear saying 151 is Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony won't be the right answer.

[lukeottevanger]

Greg, Karl, Webern is right, but that's not quite the right piece, Greg (though on my current record of lack-of-attention it could be, knowing me I could be imagining it to be something else, and I'm not at home so I can't check right now!)

Philomel is correct, Greg

Larry, I need a bit more on the song. And no, the Pastoral isn't quite right  , though of course you've correctly identified the passage on which the whole Sonatina is based - one movement for each bird, actually, except this coda to the second movement.

[Larry Rinkel]

Larry, I need a bit more on the song.

It is Clara Schumann's Op. 23/3. The piano textures look amazingly like Robert's.

[greg]

Greg, Karl, Webern is right, but that's not quite the right piece, Greg (though on my current record of lack-of-attention it could be, knowing me I could be imagining it to be something else, and I'm not at home so I can't check right now!)

it is the right piece, i just checked and the scores match up exactly
Klavierstuck, Piano Piece, same thing i guess
attached- the pdf version from IMSLP, the title in Russian

[karlhenning]

Greg, Karl, Webern is right, but that's not quite the right piece, Greg (though on my current record of lack-of-attention it could be, knowing me I could be imagining it to be something else, and I'm not at home so I can't check right now!)

Unpublished Kinderstück.

[greg]

Unpublished Kinderstück.

yeah, i think that's right now. I checked on my Webern CDs and there is a short track "Kinderstück (1924)". So this means when i saved the file, i named it the wrong thing, or it was just originally named the wrong thing by whoever uploaded it. Did you use your stealthy Russian decoding skills? 

[karlhenning]

Yes, I thank you for an assist, Greg! Детская Пьеса is the Russian for Kinderstück 

[karlhenning]

Of course, there's something endearing about Webern opening a child's piece with an augmented octave . . . .

[greg]

Of course, there's something endearing about Webern opening a child's piece with an augmented octave . . . .

maybe he wrote it for Chris Forbes?

[lukeottevanger]

Kinderstuck is the name I had in mind - it's how I've seen it referred to elsewhere too. And Larry is right on the Clara - and yes, it does look like Robert! Which is why I chose it, of course....

[lukeottevanger]

(Quietly enjoying the fact that the score sample I described as 'pornographic' has been viewed more than any other....not quite sure what all viewers were expecting! - it's still only a score....)

[Guido]

(Quietly enjoying the fact that the score sample I described as 'pornographic' has been viewed more than any other....not quite sure what all viewers were expecting! - it's still only a score....)

haha. A little surprising that no one has got the composer at least - Even I would have been able to get that from the look of the score.

[lukeottevanger]

...especially seeing as I've already posted a score by this same composer, from the same publisher (another clue)

[lukeottevanger]

I still think you ought to claim that one, Guido, btw. After all, you know the answer, it doesn't matter that I told you about this piece.

There's another one in here you ought to know too, if you look back at my clues. (I don't mean the solo cello one.)

[karlhenning]

I haven't gotten around to any score labeled prawn-o-graphic; must be an aversion to shellfish 

[lukeottevanger]

See if you can winkle it out. Top of page 58

[karlhenning]

It isn't too indelicate for an Essentially Shy Person such as myself?

[lukeottevanger]

The harp part is quite chaste - keep your eyes fixed on that.


BTW, I meant to guess a few days ago that Maciek's no 20 might be Penderecki's Song of the Cherubim. To be honest, I' very incertain about this - it doesn't really match those bits of the piece I've heard - but the piece would fit some of Maciek's clues.