Quiz: Mystery scores

[Florestan]

Besides works already mentioned, I highly recommend Taruskin's Text and Act, a devastating critique of hardcore HIP ideology, and his multi-volume and quite revisionist Oxford History of Western Music.

For a foretaste of his thought-provoking views, with which in this case I agree entirely,  start here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/28/archives/recordings-view-why-do-they-all-hate-horowitz.html

[Luke]

A new sequence. Some easy, some hard, all linked in a fairly obvious way, once you have more than one or two.

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[Karl Henning]

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9 is RVW, "The Call" from the Five Mystical Songs, yes?

[Luke]

Yes it is

[classicalgeek]

#5 is "That Mysterious Rag" by Irving Berlin. (found by Googling the lyrics)

#7 is the very end of "The Planets".

#10 is the beginning of the final part of Mahler's 8th Symphony
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#11 appears to be an organ work by a French composer... couldn't tell you anything beyond that. Tournemire?

[Luke]

Can you see the connection? That'll help work out the others

[classicalgeek]

I think I see the connection - mystical or mysterious things.

#5 - That Mysterious Rag
#7 - Last movement of The Planets is called Neptune, the Mystic
#9 - From the Five Mystical Songs by Vaughan Williams (thanks Karl!)
#10 - The final chorus from Mahler 8 is also called the Chorus Mysticus
#11 - Would this be a passage from L'Orgue Mystique by Tournemire?

Now we just need to figure out the rest of the works!

#6 Looks as if it may be by Delius? #8 Looks vaguely like Milhaud. Numbers 1 through 4 are a little trickier...

[classicalgeek]

#6 is by a different Frederick. The Mystic Trumpeter by Frederick Shepherd Converse.

[Luke]

   The clue was in the file names....

[Luke]

Particularly well done on the Tournemire, btw.

[Luke]

IMO 1 and 2 are the most famous musical Mysteries of all.

[Florestan]

#1 is probably The Scourging at the Pillar from the Sorrowful Mysteries section of Biber's Rosary Sonatas.

[Luke]

Got it. A particularly (and appropriately) tense scordatura in this one, putting the violin itself in pain (that 'key signature'!).

[Florestan]

Got it.

The printed image on the score was the most important hint.

[Florestan]

By the look of it, #2 might be something by Satie or Mompou.

[Luke]

Not those two, no.