Quiz: Mystery scores

[Luke]

That sounds like quite the adventure, Luke!

...and, thanks, yes it was. Taken together, these trips round the country, to inspirational musical locations famous and utterly obscure, have changed me in quite unexpected ways. It's been quite a year.

[classicalgeek]

It's the end of Howard Hanson's First Symphony

We have a winner! I was figuring out how to give some hints, but Luke beat me to it.

[Mapman]

That's perfectly within the (unwritten) rules. It's all about nosing out those clues and knowing how to follow them up!

I found this list of fellows of the American Academy in Rome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fellows_of_the_American_Academy_in_Rome_(1896%E2%80%931970)
That list gave Howard Hanson and Randall Thompson as the most likely candidates. So it was then easy to find the ending of Hanson's 1st symphony.

[LKB]

Grats to Luke. 

[classicalgeek]

I found this list of fellows of the American Academy in Rome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fellows_of_the_American_Academy_in_Rome_(1896%E2%80%931970)
That list gave Howard Hanson and Randall Thompson as the most likely candidates. So it was then easy to find the ending of Hanson's 1st symphony.

I was wondering if 'American Academy in Rome' would help someone hone in on the answer! I blanked out the year, which was 1922.

[krummholz]

We have a winner! I was figuring out how to give some hints, but Luke beat me to it.

Interesting. Totally unknown work (to me). I've heard his 2nd, but not his first.

[Luke]

Grats to Luke. 

Well, really to Mapman. He got there first but was just more polite than me.

[classicalgeek]

Here's today's submission - something a little different. I did blank out one indication that might have given away too much. 

[BWV 1080]

Here's today's submission - something a little different. I did blank out one indication that might have given away too much. 

The blanked out text being the reference to Manuel DeFalla?

Which dance from El Amor Brujo is he quoting?

[BWV 1080]

Here is a somewhat (in)famous passage

[Luke]

That's one of the model modulations in Max Reger's book on the subject, I think.

[BWV 1080]

That's one of the model modulations in Max Reger's book on the subject, I think.

yes, I wonder if you can find this anywhere in Reger's music - a piece that actually modulates from C major to B# major - that would be a good post for this thread

[classicalgeek]

The blanked out text being the reference to Manuel DeFalla?

Which dance from El Amor Brujo is he quoting?

That was quick! Very well done.

The text I blanked out was baigné de pédales ("bathed in pedals"), which I figured would give away that it was a French composer.

And here's the title:

[BWV 1080]

And here's the title:

The part is in the Pantomina, around the 18:00 mark (the Youtube linker does not seem to take a timestamp)

[Luke]

yes, I wonder if you can find this anywhere in Reger's music - a piece that actually modulates from C major to B# major - that would be a good post for this thread

If B# major exists anywhere, it will be in Reger at his more extreme. However I'm pretty sure you won't find it even there!


Of course B# major is only what is known as a theoretical key, and so is E# major - but when Havergal Brian uses E# major instead of F at a climactic point in the 8th Symphony I can swear you hear the music lit up by the inner luminescence such a key implies! (I'm just hearing things, I know...but I certainly heard something extraordinary in this passage long before I knew how oddly Brian had notated it)

[BWV 1080]

Here is one with a tie to classicalgeek's last example

[Luke]

Haven't looked yet but at first glimpse  it looks a bit like a guitar transcription of Debussy's Soiree dans Grenade. I'll look further...

[Luke]

Haven't looked yet but at first glimpse  it looks a bit like a guitar transcription of Debussy's Soiree dans Grenade. I'll look further...

...I mean, it isn't,  but it's similar....

[BWV 1080]

...I mean, it isn't,  but it's similar....

right, a quotation not a transcription

[Luke]

Oh, it's the end of the Falla Homenaje, isn't it.