Quiz: Mystery scores

[Luke]

 
You LUCKY b******! What the hell is it with Messiaen's scores? WHY must they be so freakin' expensive? It's that stupid Alphonse-Leduc publisher. Durand doesn't help either, with their $205 pocket score of the Turangalila-Symphonie. You know, I purchased Et Exspecto Resurrectionum Mortuorum online because it was on sale at sheetmusicplus.com (still at a pricey $55-ish). It was one of the shoddiest things I have bought. The binding looks like it is going to give way already and the printing is just very poor quality. I was so upset when I received it that I almost wrote a letter to Alphonse-Leduc. The opera St. Francois d'Assisse is roughly $2500-$3000, making it nearly unobtainable

Why can't they be more like Schott? All of the Ligeti scores I have are beautifully put together (many even with computerized typesetting, but even the old engraved ones are nice), large study-score format (8.5''x11''), and cheap (especially for a composer still under copyright worldwide)! I am very picky about the quality of scores I have.

I shouldn't say, then, that on the same day, on the same shelf, I also found Turangalila, Et Expecto and Chronochromie, amongst other things. £80 the lot. A very, very good day (others, on other days, include Mahler-Cook 10 for £4, Elgar Gerontius in the £192 edition for £4....)

[Luke]

Sounds like you got a bit luckier than me (at least price wise). Brian Jordan's always has something tempting, I believe I went in to buy a copy of the Well-Tempered Clavier and came away with Ligeti's Requiem and Horn Trio, Lutosławski's Livre pour orchestre, a string quartet by Skalkottas and an armful of other random stuff. (And now I live in a country with no classical music retailers, lol.)

That shop is/was amazing. And Brian Jordan himself, an institution. His presence in Cambridge is missed. This stalkerish video is quite sweet - very 'Cambridge', though!

[Maciek]

Has this post been of any help?
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,13493.msg813197.html#msg813197

Well, if it's any consolation: no, I wasn't aware of that post. You just happened to post the right page, with a very good clue.

[EigenUser]

I shouldn't say, then, that on the same day, on the same shelf, I also found Turangalila, Et Expecto and Chronochromie, amongst other things. £80 the lot. A very, very good day (others, on other days, include Mahler-Cook 10 for £4, Elgar Gerontius in the £192 edition for £4....)

It's okay, we all get lucky. This past May/June I discovered a music store in the DC area about 20-30 minutes from my house by complete accident -- I was on a plane in April and the person sitting next to me turned out to be a music theory professor at Catholic University. He informed me of this store that had been open since the 1950s which was closing and having huge discounts. One of the largest selections of sheet music in the country and I never knew about it! And I'm always looking for music stores! The owner's father was a conductor so they had a huge selection of full-sized scores -- all 50% off. Even more, I got to know the lady in the back who started giving me 80% off (and free things, too). The last day they were open I got roughly $500 worth of music for $35 (including the two volumes of Haydn's The Seasons -- priced at $170).

Well, if it's any consolation: no, I wasn't aware of that post. You just happened to post the right page, with a very good clue.

What was the clue for the Milhaud? I assume that the Mackey clue was the "heartbeat" tempo, which I did on purpose because I thought it would be harder. It wasn't easy to find a page of the Messiaen with a bird name or a page of the Schoenberg without a hauptstimme, and these would make them too obvious.

[EigenUser]

Two more:

16.


17.

[Luke]

16 must be Steuermann's arrangement of Schoenberg's op 9, right?

[Luke]

And the other one an arrangement of Sirenes (Debussy Nocturnes no 3) but I'm not sure who by yet.

[EigenUser]

16 must be Steuermann's arrangement of Schoenberg's op 9, right?

And the other one an arrangement of Sirenes (Debussy Nocturnes no 3) but I'm not sure who by yet.

Yes to both. The Debussy arrangement is by Gustave Samazeuilh. Sadly, it's out of print. I got it for free at that closing music store and I was ecstatic when I found it because I love that piece so much (Sirenes in particular).

[Luke]

And a couple more from me to be getting on with.

[Luke]

Will try to find time to post a few more tomorrow

[Maciek]

Well, mysteryscore2-luke-016 is Erwin Schulhoff's Duo for violin and cello.

[Maciek]

And the other one is Sandor Veress, String trio, 2nd mvmt: Allegro molto.

Good night.

[Luke]

Nice! Both pretty crazy-cool pieces, IMO. More to follow in a bit...

[Luke]

Three more (there will be more)

[Maciek]

Hm... B-A-C-H, Peanuts, Tolkien... Maybe I can think of something tomorrow?

[amw]

I believe the first one of those is a composition by the estimable Professor Peter Schickele, perhaps the Notebook for Betty-Sue Bach or something

[Karl Henning]

For she's a jolly good fellow . . . .

[Luke]

Schickele is correct, though the piece is the  Short-Tempered Clavier (search it out....). As Karl intimates, the use of For He's A Jolly Good Fellow to set against the chromatic earnestness of BACH is something of a clue!

Peanuts - no, sorry.

Tolkein - yes, but who is the composer? Anyway, here are some more...

[Luke]

2 more

[Luke]

1 more for now