Quiz: Mystery scores

[karlhenning]

No, no, I am keen to guess.

[lukeottevanger]

I'm really trying to think of a clue to give you that won't make it too obvious, but again, I've failed. 

[karlhenning]

I wonder . . . and now, I'm either on maybe the right tack, or I'm off entirely still 

[Guido]

Just programmed it into Sibelius and I still don't recognise it! I played it at crotchet = 100

I did notice that it has been notated extremely badly though - like by someone who has only just about got the fundamentals of notation sorted... The worst of it is the second bar of the second system: It's anyone's guess what is happening there!

Anyway... Don't know it.

[Guido]

Neither does my brother, and he's into the 'pop music' as I believe it's known in the vernacular.

[karlhenning]

I'll bet I'm off entirely still 

[(poco) Sforzando]

"I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all."

Morton Feldman

Of course Feldman weighed more than 300 pounds himself, and I don't mean sterling.

[lukeottevanger]

I did notice that it has been notated extremely badly though - like by someone who has only just about got the fundamentals of notation sorted... The worst of it is the second bar of the second system: It's anyone's guess what is happening there!

Very interesting that you should say that - that's not at all far off the mark, as you'll see when the piece/composer is revealed. Did my latest clue fail too? Seems I'm just repeating myself endlessly....

Another clue, less cryptic than the last, is that the composer here shares something very specific with a recently guessed composer.

[lukeottevanger]

Of course Feldman weighed more than 300 pounds himself, and I don't mean sterling.

Truly a great composer. And for once, nice to know I still have a long way to go, though not as far as I'd like.

[greg]

Of course Feldman weighed more than 300 pounds himself, and I don't mean sterling.

that's funny.

[Guido]

The only 'composer' I can think of who doesn't read music is Paul McCartney who played everything from his Liverpool Oratorio or whatever the name of that piece is on the guitar and then someone transcribed and orchestrated it for him. Worst cross over artist ever?

Also Luke you'll be pleased to know that I have a leap concerto! - Tuur's concerto. It's a fascinating and beautiful piece. Do you know it?

[karlhenning]

You can sing "Close your eyes" (from "All My Loving") to the first three notes, but . . . .

[Guido]

I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that Feldman wanted to be considered the greatest Jewish composer. Is he greater than Mendlessohn and Mahler?

[M forever]

Mendelssohn and Mahler were both converts, so they don't count. I guess the "greatest" Jewish composer is probably Stravinsky. Definitely not Feldman though.

[Guido]

Schoenberg?

[karlhenning]

Mendelssohn and Mahler were both converts, so they don't count. I guess the "greatest" Jewish composer is probably Stravinsky.

Stravinsky was Russian Orthodox.

[karlhenning]

Schoenberg?

Must be whom M meant, Guido; good catch!

[lukeottevanger]

Stravinsky was Russian Orthodox.

And, some say, had a nasty streak of anti-semitism.

[lukeottevanger]

Mystified as to why M didn't mention Mahler, though. Or Wagner, the greatest Jewish composer of them all 

[lukeottevanger]

The famous head honcho of the label which first released my 370 is on BBC 4 at the moment....