Quiz: Mystery scores

[(poco) Sforzando]

No pianos in that one.... but fairly idiomatic writing for the two (different) instruments on those two pairs of staves you are looking at...

Looks to me like a string orchestra with divided 2nds, vlas, vlcs, and a harp and organ.

With 481, I think I'm looking at a clarinet because of the transposition, violin, cello, and a percussion instrument like a tambourine.

No idea on anything else.

[(poco) Sforzando]

What's this?

Mid or late German (or German-influenced) Romantic, not chromatic enough for Strauss, looks like the ending of a Eb major second subject in a sonata-form exposition, which could mean C minor as the tonic. But not Bruckner or Dvorak.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Sorry Luke, I'm sure I've never heard any of the pieces, so the clues can be totally obvious and still don't help me.

Have you recognized #38 of my quiz yet?

38? I topped out at 20. I kind of wish it were possible to go through the whole set, because if you don't recognize one in order you're basically dead.

[Luke]

Looks to me like a string orchestra with divided 2nds, vlas, vlcs, and a harp and organ.

Spot on! It's an English piece this, by one of the most high profile English composers. I know, Sfz, I'm sorry....

With 481, I think I'm looking at a clarinet because of the transposition, violin, cello, and a percussion instrument like a tambourine.

Very close - sorry, my latest clue may have suggested that the layout implies only one possible instrumentation whereas in fact there are a few. Yours is close - clarinet, yes, cello, yes, a percussion instrument, yes (but not a tambourine - think more along the lines of Haas's 2nd string quartet). The other one isn't the violin, but it is another transposing instrument, though still without key signature, as you see - that ought to tell you what it is! Once you have the four instruments, identifying the piece won't take long.

[Luke]

38? I topped out at 20. I kind of wish it were possible to go through the whole set, because if you don't recognize one in order you're basically dead.

It's a real killer, isn't it! I haven't tried hard on 38 yet, Rappy, because I've been busy, and I know that if I start thinking about it I'll waste hours I don't have!

[listener]

Spot on! It's an English piece this, by one of the most high profile English composers. I know, Sfz, I'm sorry....

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Elgar: Sospiri, op. 70?

[rappy]

I'm going to implement function that you can skip a certain amount of levels, but this will take some time.
Meanwhile, let me give a hint for #20: It looks mad - that might be because the topic of the piece ask for mad music and the composer was mad.

#38 - I'm sure you know the piece very well Luke, it shouldn't take too much time. It's not too famous at the larger audience, but a much more important and central work than the one before.

Mid or late German (or German-influenced) Romantic, not chromatic enough for Strauss, looks like the ending of a Eb major second subject in a sonata-form exposition, which could mean C minor as the tonic. But not Bruckner or Dvorak.

Excellent. I think it looks a bit like the young Strauss, but it isn't. It's not German at all.

[Luke]

I'm going to implement function that you can skip a certain amount of levels, but this will take some time.

You mean I went through all that for nothing? 

Excellent. I think it looks a bit like the young Strauss, but it isn't. It's not German at all.

Yes, it does look like young Strauss, I agree - it reminded me of the look of the score of the first movement of Aus Italien, though I knew it wasn't that one (it's rather beautiful, that movement, isn't it?)

[Luke]

Elgar: Sospiri, op. 70?

Yes, that's the one!

[rappy]

You mean I went through all that for nothing? 

I will of course restrict the possibility up to max. 2 levels. And that will be notated in another column of the highscores-list, I think.
You must have no fear. 

Yes, it does look like young Strauss, I agree - it reminded me of the look of the score of the first movement of Aus Italien, though I knew it wasn't that one (it's rather beautiful, that movement, isn't it?)

Yeah, it is!

Here's another page of the piece above.

[(poco) Sforzando]

I'm going to implement function that you can skip a certain amount of levels, but this will take some time.
Meanwhile, let me give a hint for #20: It looks mad - that might be because the topic of the piece ask for mad music and the composer was mad.

I got 20, with an opus # of 9! I'm stuck on 21.

[rappy]

Ooops, I'm sorry.. of course! Well, on 21 you do not need any opus number, just the composer. Who could have written such a bouncy theme?

By the way, if you enter the highscores again and type in "Sforzando", it will replace your old entry now.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Ooops, I'm sorry.. of course! Well, on 21 you do not need any opus number, just the composer. Who could have written such a bouncy theme?

A lot of people!!!

[rappy]

Don't you think it has an Italian grace?

[(poco) Sforzando]

Don't you think it has an Italian grace?

If you wish. Got that one and two more with no problem (other than figuring out which Wikipedia.de version of each Russian name to use). Totally stumped on 24. It could be something I know well, but without context, tempo marking, etc., it gets tougher.

[rappy]

Well, that piece is again a little bit "mad".

Sforzando, don't you want to create another game like you did once: http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,3125.msg210918.html#msg210918

?

That was great fun. 

[listener]

a few more, and an update to my first one (not quite, "few, that is eight" according to the Bible, I'm just giving six, and the sixth is the extended re-post (not riposte, that's something else).  hint: there should eventually be twenty-six in this series.
Listener 1 has two consecutive pages:

[listener]

Listener 2
French is the original language.   This may be obscure, but I do have a recording.

[listener]

Listener 3
This is not what you normally associate with its composer.   These are the final bars, sorry to have cut the last bar line off

[listener]

Listener 4
Lovely tune...should seem familiar.