Quiz: Mystery scores

lukeottevanger · June 26, 2008, 01:53:13 PM

That being clarified, 57 may well be the ballet The Four Temperaments (piano and strings; also the name of a symphony) by (the German composer) Hindemith

J.Z. Herrenberg · June 26, 2008, 01:55:38 PM

To be more specific about the Wolf (#296): it's the second of two "Paraphrasen über "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg".

lukeottevanger · June 26, 2008, 01:56:57 PM

Thanks, Johan. That wipes one off!

(the Hindemith one is also Sforzando's four Ts as well, of course)

lukeottevanger · June 26, 2008, 02:02:03 PM

I have a feeling 76 is Boyce, the first of his eight Symphonies.

lukeottevanger · June 26, 2008, 02:03:29 PM

Yes, it is, I checked

(poco) Sforzando · June 26, 2008, 02:43:20 PM

Quote from: lukeottevanger on June 26, 2008, 02:03:29 PM
Yes, it is, I checked

Whew! I was running out of clues. Really surprised the deaf Englishman Boyce didn't go earlier. I don't know if Hindemith wrote a 4 Temperaments symphony; I was thinking of Nielsen in that clue. But any ballet fan would recognize the 4 T's, as it's popularly called, right away - one of Balanchine's greatest pieces of choreography, and commissioned by him from Hindemith.

The 2-cello piece is genuinely recondite. But it has to do with the streets of Paris, it's part of a 4-movement suite of character pieces, its composer taught at Columbia University for a while, his initials are PS, and his name sounds German. If you can't get it, I'll reveal it soon.

lukeottevanger · June 26, 2008, 03:07:26 PM

Quote from: Sforzando on June 26, 2008, 02:43:20 PM
I don't know if Hindemith wrote a 4 Temperaments symphony; I was thinking of Nielsen in that clue.

Me too. Did I imply the former? Didn't mean to...

lukeottevanger · June 27, 2008, 11:41:39 AM

Only guesses = Paul Siskind or Peter Schuback. Otherwise, I have no idea. And if it's them, I don't know the piece

(poco) Sforzando · June 30, 2008, 09:28:06 AM

Quote from: lukeottevanger on June 27, 2008, 11:41:39 AM
Only guesses = Paul Siskind or Peter Schuback. Otherwise, I have no idea. And if it's them, I don't know the piece

The composer's name is Peter Susser, and this is from a set of four character pieces for two cellos called Quatre Bêtises - this one being Une Collision sur les Rue de Paris.

But from the looks of things, unless and until Rob fixes all the dead graphic links, this thread is more or less stalled.

lukeottevanger · June 30, 2008, 09:29:55 AM

Ah, I was going to say that - why didn't you give us more time?

This is indeed painful. I suppose I could give a note-by-note description of my scores, a la that-page-on-Vertigo I linked to a while back. But perhaps not....

lukeottevanger · June 30, 2008, 09:34:07 AM

Actually, I suppose I might make a PDF of my remaining ones and upload it somewhere later. Could even add in some new ones, perhaps.

Not exactly ideal, but needs must etc. Got to get some kind of impetus going here again.

lukeottevanger · June 30, 2008, 02:30:11 PM

OK, here we are: large PDF with all my unguessed ones, plus quite a lot of new ones, some very easy, some very hard.

The old ones are:

298 and 299 (one of which, we have ascertained, is Wolf-Ferrari)

300 (which is Theo Ysaye, but what piece?)

303 (which is a Cage piece 'setting' Joyce, but what piece?)

304, 305, 310, 317, 318, 319, 320 (I've put 320a next to this, in case it helps), 321, 322, 323, 324 and 325

From 329 onwards they are all new.

I'll give clues on the old ones soon, but I'll give you a chance to get reacquainted with them first!

J.Z. Herrenberg · June 30, 2008, 02:52:42 PM

Luke, there is an Ophicléide in 343 - first thought: Berlioz.

lukeottevanger · June 30, 2008, 02:57:53 PM

Yes. Interesting page this, and those before it - he uses horns in various keys, combining them so as to make them able to play the entire 'recitative' line, even if they sometimes only contribute a single note-stretch of it.

(poco) Sforzando · June 30, 2008, 02:59:36 PM

Quote from: lukeottevanger on June 30, 2008, 02:57:53 PM
Yes. Interesting page this, and those before it - he uses horns in various keys, combining them so as to make them able to play the entire 'recitative' line, even if they sometimes only contribute a single note-stretch of it.

Even without looking, I'd guess the Romeo symphony.

(poco) Sforzando · June 30, 2008, 03:03:22 PM

337 is Dukas's L'Apprenti Sorcier.

(poco) Sforzando · June 30, 2008, 03:04:28 PM

338 looks like a fragment of Strauss's Frau ohne Schatten in his own hand.

(poco) Sforzando · June 30, 2008, 03:05:18 PM

340 - Stravinsky's Threni.

(poco) Sforzando · June 30, 2008, 03:08:17 PM

339 - Harold in Italy, Berlioz, 3rd movement.

(poco) Sforzando · June 30, 2008, 07:36:39 PM

Quote from: lukeottevanger on June 30, 2008, 02:30:11 PM
OK, here we are: large PDF with all my unguessed ones, plus quite a lot of new ones, some very easy, some very hard.

The old ones are:

298 and 299 (one of which, we have ascertained, is Wolf-Ferrari)

I'd say the W-F is 299, as he was fairly conservative. He wrote three violin sonatas - g minor, a minor, and E major. I'd guess the a minor.