Quiz: Mystery scores

[Guido]

Messiaen is my favourite composer. In the world. Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!11111!!!!11one!1!!

no the fact that you can alter people's quotes and it will still say that they said it on such and such a date... Pretty obvious that you can do it, but I had never considered it before.

I love Saul's music so much, I'd drink the ink from his ink pen if he wanted me to.

Get your mind out of the gutter you filthy oik! 

[greg]

Get your mind out of the gutter you filthy oik! 

Wow, how could I have missed that interpretation? 
Really, I wasn't thinking that at all, but man ...... i'm about to die from laughing..... 

[(poco) Sforzando]

The composer was born in China - does that help?

No. Are we still looking for a harp by Cowell? The Aeolian Harp?

[(poco) Sforzando]

These are all the Feldman solo piano pieces I can come up with. All I know is, it's not Last Pieces.

Two Intermissions
Intermission 5
Intermission 6
Piano Piece 1952
Extensions 3
Three Pieces For Piano
Piano Piece 1955
Piano Piece 1956 A
Piano Piece 1956 B
Last Piece
Vertical Thoughts 4
Piano Piece (To Philip Guston)
Piano Piece (1964)
Nature Pieces For Piano
Variations
Intermission 3
Intermission 4
Intersection 2
Intersection 3
Intermission 6

[lukeottevanger]

No. Are we still looking for a harp by Cowell? The Aeolian Harp?

No, we were never looking for a harp piece by Cowell. Seeing the strange noteheads of this piece, Mark joked that it looked a bit like the Sacred Harp, and, intending to push people towards Cowell, I said something along the lines of 'it's not the Sacred Harp, but the ? Harp is getting closer'

It's one of his better-known pieces, though not as famous as The Aeolian Harp or The Banshee.

[lukeottevanger]

These are all the Feldman solo piano pieces I can come up with. All I know is, it's not Last Pieces.

Two Intermissions
Intermission 5
Intermission 6
Piano Piece 1952
Extensions 3
Three Pieces For Piano
Piano Piece 1955
Piano Piece 1956 A
Piano Piece 1956 B
Last Piece
Vertical Thoughts 4
Piano Piece (To Philip Guston)
Piano Piece (1964)
Nature Pieces For Piano
Variations
Intermission 3
Intermission 4
Intersection 2
Intersection 3
Intermission 6

Actually it's none of these. But its title is included in the list you've just given, more than once. 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

No, we were never looking for a harp piece by Cowell. Seeing the strange noteheads of this piece, Mark joked that it looked a bit like the Sacred Harp, and, intending to push people towards Cowell, I said something along the lines of 'it's not the Sacred Harp, but the ? Harp is getting closer'

It's one of his better-known pieces, though not as famous as The Aeolian Harp or The Banshee.

The Harp of Life.

[lukeottevanger]

No. Nothing to do with harps, Aeolian, Life-giving, Pink or otherwise! That was just a way to get you to Cowell!!

The title is to do with the way the various rhythmic-melodic strands weave together.

[(poco) Sforzando]

The composer was born in China - does that help?

Boris Blacher was born in China and taught Gottfried von Einem. Somehow I doubt that's the right answer.

[(poco) Sforzando]

No, we were never looking for a harp piece by Cowell. Seeing the strange noteheads of this piece, Mark joked that it looked a bit like the Sacred Harp, and, intending to push people towards Cowell, I said something along the lines of 'it's not the Sacred Harp, but the ? Harp is getting closer'

Try "Dynamic Motion."

[lukeottevanger]

Boris Blacher was born in China and taught Gottfried von Einem. Somehow I doubt that's the right answer.

Why do you doubt it?  The intersection of 'composer who taught von Einem' and 'composers born in China' can't be that extensive! Plus, Blacher's name also tends to go hand-in-hand with the metrical process he devised. And I usually have to double-check his name against Barraque's. Sounds like you're on the right track to me. 

[lukeottevanger]

Try "Dynamic Motion."

No. Look at my previous response to Johan. You guys are making all this Cowell and Blacher stuff harder than it needs to be!

[(poco) Sforzando]

Why do you doubt it?  The intersection of 'composer who taught von Einem' and 'composers born in China' can't be that extensive! Plus, Blacher's name also tends to go hand-in-hand with the metrical process he devised. And I usually have to double-check his name against Barraque's. Sounds like you're on the right track to me. 

Well, you did say a "quite famous composer." Blacher isn't exactly unheard of, but is he really that well known? I don't know a single work by him myself. But let's see about teachers of Barraqué too . . . .

[Mark G. Simon]

Try "Dynamic Motion."

I tried "Dynamic Tension" but I still don't look like Charles Atlas.

[(poco) Sforzando]

No. Nothing to do with harps, Aeolian, Life-giving, Pink or otherwise! That was just a way to get you to Cowell!!

The title is to do with the way the various rhythmic-melodic strands weave together.

How about "Melodic-Rhythmic Weaving"? (Just made that up.)

[lukeottevanger]

Well, you did say a "quite famous composer." Blacher isn't exactly unheard of, but is he really that well known? I don't know a single work by him myself. But let's see about teachers of Barraqué too . . . .

He's quite a famous name I think. When I was a boy, my parents gave me the Larousse encyclopedia of music, and I remember Blacher being given quite a prominent mention - even a large picture where other names were absent (that's why I still remember about his Chinese birth, which struck me back then). So perhaps in my mind he's better-known than he is, but I still think that most of us here know his name and have very possibly heard of his rhythmic innovations even if we don't know his work - I only have one CD of his music myself.

[lukeottevanger]

How about "Melodic-Rhythmic Weaving"? (Just made that up.)

What would the result be if you wove these things together?

[lukeottevanger]

But let's see about teachers of Barraqué too . . . .

Don't go off on a Barraque tangent! It's Blacher, OK? Look carefully at the music and you ought to be able to guess what sort of piece this is; it's mentioned on one of Blacher's Wiki pages, though not one in English IIRC.

[(poco) Sforzando]

What would the result be if you wove these things together?

A quilt?

[(poco) Sforzando]

Don't go off on a Barraque tangent! It's Blacher, OK? Look carefully at the music and you ought to be able to guess what sort of piece this is; it's mentioned on one of Blacher's Wiki pages, though not one in English IIRC.

The 24 Preludes for Piano of 1974 looks right. I don't think it's the Jazz-Koloraturen für Sopran, Altsaxophon und Fagott (1929) or Gesang der Rotationsmaschinen für gemischten Chor (1930).

And for all you Blacher fans out there (I know you're out there), here's young Boris in his passport picture from Shanghai, age 19:



Bet you didn't think he looked like that.