Quiz: Mystery scores

[rappy]

There are only a few left, Luke. But those a quite hard, as you see. Althrough #29 is from a quite famous piece.

[lukeottevanger]

Ah, now, you see - that gives me hope!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

# 325 Simon Mawhinney, Flux? (Mawhinney is the surname of a British Conservative politician from the Thatcher and Major years, but not 'famous'...)

Edit: I am confusing the clue for no 245 with 225...

[lukeottevanger]

OK- back with the original scores! No, not him.

Extrapolating from my clues, let's boil down what we've got with this particular complex of clues:

325 Irish composer, sounds like he has two first names (he's probably the best-known contemporary Irish composer too)

344 Another contemporary 'celtic' composer whose name is shared with an Irish politician. Two completely separate Irish politicians, actually, wiki tells me. And actually, his name could be two first names too - just realised that! This is the composer who used to be in a rock band called Influx and who played the national instrument of his country. He does indeed look quite rock 'n' roll 

[lukeottevanger]

Suddenly remembered what Ralph's 29 is!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

# 325 John Godfrey?! Philip Martin?!

[lukeottevanger]

No - surprised this is so hard! He's listed on the front page of the Irish Contemporary Music Centre

Ralph's 29 has been on the main list here, a long long time ago - not the same section of the score, though; more a later apotheosis of the melody he gives.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

No - surprised this is so hard! He's listed on the front page of the Irish Contemporary Music Centre

Ralph's 29 has been on the main list here, a long long time ago - not the same section of the score, though; more a later apotheosis of the melody he gives.

I was already there! Must look even more closely!

Adam Melvin?! (These are all unknown to me, btw)

[lukeottevanger]

They even have a clip of the piece itself! http://cmc.ie/shop/audio/231.mp3

He's about the first living Irish composer whose name comes to mind. My mind, anyway.

[lukeottevanger]

Perhaps you can trace it from that link - if so, so what! You deserve it!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Brian Irvine?

[lukeottevanger]

LOL

How many Irish composers are there with two first names?! This is weird. And still the most famous one eludes us.

You're going to get there in the end - I might as well give you his initials so that you don't waste any more of your day: GB

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Okay okay - Gerald Barry ("studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel").

And the piece is: Au milieu.

Edit: sorry for my edit.

[lukeottevanger]

Phew! The piece is easy to identify if you follow the links. As I've already given you the clue that it is 'a balletic piece', it's no harm to give you the composer's notes to the piece, even though technically it's not identified yet. Only a matter of time:

The term XXXXXX is used in ballet to describe exercises performed away from the bar.

Abandon, balance, virtuosity, vulnerability and danger are its elements.

It is a tribute to those who have conquered and died at the keyboard.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Seen my edit?  0:)

[lukeottevanger]

You swine! 

More than time for a TTT, I think:

First list, in two parts:
Part one
and
Part two

Second list (one long part)

New list:

Set by Luke
293 - Tchaikovsky - Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem - (Sforzando)
294 - Tovey - Piano Concerto - (Johan)
295 - Wagner - Fantasy in F# minor - (Sforzando)
296 - Wagner-Wolf - Paraphrase über "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" - (Johan)
297 - Valen - Piano Sonata no 2 - (Johan)
298 - Weissenberg - Sonate en etat de Jazz - (Johan)
299 - Wolf-Ferrari - Violin Sonata in A minor - (Sforzando)
300 - Theo Ysaye - Piano Concerto op 9 - (Johan)
301 - Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto no 2 - (revealed by Luke)
302 - Tchaikovsky - The Tempest - (Sforzando)
303 - Cage - from Songbooks - (Johan)
304 - Busoni - Concerto for piano and strings op 17 - (Johan)
305 - Berlioz - Rustic Serenade - (revealed by Luke)
306 - Beethoven - Adagio (mandolin/piano) - (Sforzando)
307 - Berg - Four pieces for clarinet and piano - (Sforzando)
308 - Arensky - Piano Trio no 1 - (Sforzando)
309 - Antheil - Sonata no 2 'The Airplane' - (Greg)
310 - Bloch - Concerto Grosso no 1 - (Sforzando)
311 - Berstein - Wonderful Town - (Sforzando)
312 - Barber - Hesitation Tango - (Guido)
313 - Carpenter - Krazy Kat - (Sforzando)
314 - Bax - Harp Quintet - (Guido)
315 - Berg - Abschied - (Johan)
316 - Bernstein - La Bonne Cuisine - (Sforzando)
317 - Bruckner - Christus factus est pro nobis - (Johan)
318 - Chausson - Poeme - (Johan)
319 - Enescu - Piano Quintet - (Johan)
320 - Heinrich - A Chromatic Ramble of the Peregrine Harmonist - (Johan)
321 - Lili Boulanger - Vielle priere bouddhique - (Johan)
322 - ? -
323 - Maxwell Davies - The Lighthouse - (Johan)
324 - Janacek - Adagio - (Johan)
325 - Barry - Au Milieu - (Johan)
326 - Prokofiev - Classical Symphony - (Sforzando)
327 - Shostakovich - Fugue in D flat major (from the 24) - (Sforzando)
328 - Sibelius - Symphony no 3 - (Mark)
329 - Copland - Piano Fantasy - (Sforzando)
330 - Stevenson - Prelude, Fugue and Fantasy on Busoni's Faust - (Johan)
331 - Musgrave - Narcissus - (Johan)
332 - Bergman - ? - (Johan)
333 - Schubert - G major quartet - (Sforzando)
334 - Nielsen - Flute Concerto - (Johan)
335 - Haydn - Farewell Symphony - (Sforzando)
336 - Elgar - Gerontius - (Johan)
337 - Dukas - L'Aprenti Sorcier - (Sforzando)
338 - Strauss - Die Frau ohne Schatten - (Sforzando)
339 - Berlioz - Harold in Italy - (Sforzando)
340 - Stravinsky - Threni - (Sforzando)
341 - Schoenberg - Gurrelieder - (Johan)
342 - Kodaly - ? - (Johan)
343 - Berlioz - Romeo et Juliette - (Sforzando)
344 - ? -
345 - ? -
346 - Bizet - L'Arlesienne (suite 1) - (Sforzando)
347 - Saint-Saens - Organ Symphony - (Sforzando)
348 - ? -
349 - Tavener - The Protecting Veil - (Guido)
350 - Orff - Carmina Burana - (Sforzando)
351 - Holst - The Planets - (Sforzando)
352 - Tchaikovsky - Capriccio Italien - (Mark) -
353 - Bizet - Symphony - (Sforzando)
354 - Janacek - Glagolitic Mass - (Johan)
355 - Haydn - Symhpony no 6 - (Mark)
356 - Rachmaninov - Piano concerto 3 - (Mark)
357 - ? -
358 - Ravel - Daphnis et Chloe - (Mark)
359 - Tavener - Coplas (Ultimos Ritos) - (Chrone)
360 - Verdi - Aida - (Sforzando)
361 - Strauss - Alpensinfonie - (Johan)


Set by Greta
1 - Berio - Sequenza IXb - (Luke)
2 - Dallapiccola - Quaderno musicale di Annalibera - (Luke)
3 - Stravinsky - Petrouchka - (Luke)
4 - Brahms - op 119/3 - (Luke)
5 - Adams - Harmonielehre - (Luke)
6 - Sibelius - Kullervo - (Luke)
7 - Grainger - Lincolnshire Posy - (Chrone)

Set by Chrone:
4 - Rogers - Guadalcanal March - (Mark)
5 - Hermann - Vertigo - (Luke)

Set by Sforzando
49 - Faure - Violin Sonata no 2 - (Luke)
50 - Sullivan - The Mikado - (Mark)
51 - Schutz - Ich ruf zu dir - (Luke)
52 - Puccini - La Rondine - (Luke)
53 - Puccini - Messa di Gloria - (Luke)
54 - Prokofiev - Piano Concerto 4 - (Luke)
55 - Peter Susser - Quatre Bêtises - (revealed by Sforzando)
56 - Copland - 8 Dickinson Songs - (Luke)
57 - Hindemith - The Four Temperaments - (Luke)
58 - Bernstein - Songfest - (Luke)
59 - Bernstein - Songfest - (Luke)
60 - Grieg - Slatter - (Luke)
61 - Beethoven - Kakadu Variations (Luke)
62 - Beethoven - Fugue for string quintet - (Luke)
63 - Prokofiev - Overture on Hebrew Themes - (Mark)
64 - Hindemith - Der Schwanendreher - (Luke)
65 - Verdi - Quartet - (Luke)
66 - Sullivan - Cox and Box - (Luke)
67 - Bernstein - Candide - (Luke)
68 - Sondheim - A Little Night Music - (Luke)
69 - Gershwin - An American in Paris - (Luke)
70 - Egge - Symphony no 3 (Louisville) - (Luke)
71 - Butterworth - A Shropshire Lad (Luke)
72 - Falla - El retabloe de Maese Pedro - (Luke)
73 - Wolf-Ferrari - IL segreto di Susanna - (Luke)
74 - Beethoven - Ah, perfido - (Johan)
75 - Berlioz - La Mort de Cleopatre - (Luke)
76 - Boyce - Symphony no 1 - (Luke)

Set by Guido
42 - Shostakovich - Symphony no 10 - (Johan)
43 - Part - Silouans Song - (Luke)
44 - ? -
45 - W Schuman - Song of Orpheus - (Luke)
46 - Ives - Sunrise - (Luke)
47 - Feldman - Cello and Orchestra - (Luke)
48 - Harrison - Suite for Symphonic Strings - (Luke)
49 - Barber - Cello Concerto - (Luke)
50 - Ruggles - Angels - (Luke)
51 - Prokofiev - Sinfonia Concertante - (Luke)
52 - ? -

Set by Greg
32 - Haydn - Symphony no 99 - (Sforzando)

Clues to Luke's remaining ones

Clues to Guido's remaining ones

[(poco) Sforzando]

I've never even heard of Gerald Barry!

- Sfz, still baffled on Rappy's #10, though he thinks he knows the composer.

[(poco) Sforzando]

I stand in awe.

I'd probably be up to 35 if I could get 10.

But I see Luke has used the words "pig" and "swine" in rather startling ways of late. Could these be his sogenannte "clue"?

[lukeottevanger]

I'd probably be up to 35 if I could get 10.

I'm sure you would - and I can't wait to see you rocket up there. But first...

But I see Luke has used the words "pig" and "swine" in rather startling ways of late. Could these be his sogenannte "clue"?

No - you're seeing things! One of my clues was clearly marked as such - the thing about mediants. No cryptology there - but Ralph tried to throw you off the scent. The other one, earlier, was more hidden, a clue to the ensemble used in this piece. It's not a Pig Quartet, a Hoggtet or a Swinephony, btw.

[(poco) Sforzando]

I'm sure you would - and I can't wait to see you rocket up there. But first...

No - you're seeing things! One of my clues was clearly marked as such - the thing about mediants. No cryptology there - but Ralph tried to throw you off the scent. The other one, earlier, was more hidden, a clue to the ensemble used in this piece. It's not a Pig Quartet, a Hoggtet or a Swinephony, btw.

Hah! well, I said that I'd figure out 10 even if I lived to Elliott Carter's age. But no sooner do I get 10 than I'm stalled on 11 . . . .  (I can sense two likely composers, though. This is going to take some work.)