Quiz: Mystery scores

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Larry Rinkel

Quote from: lukeottevanger on August 31, 2007, 07:35:37 AM
No 7 seems to be a tricky one. If I was you I'd look away from the string writing, and concentrate on a modern composer who uses arpeggios so heavily... ;)

Saul?

Mark G. Simon

#7 -- Glass is known for his arpeggios too, but I don't think this is him.

Appears to be an Italian. I would say Dallapiccola, but I don't know of any orchestral works by him that use BACH.

Larry Rinkel

Still waiting for an answer on my #20. Hint: it is not Glass, Saul, or Scelsi.

lukeottevanger

Blimey, Mark, you are good at this!

'Yes' on the Nancarrow - that one at least I think is fairly straightforward. It's Study no 37 if you're interested.

No 7 isn't Italian, actually, but 'yes' also on its use of BACH. To be fair, I hinted at it somewhat when I said that there where two clues as to the piece's title in the string parts! One of them is indeed 'Bach'. Now tell, me, what animal do you think those string parts sound like when played all together.....? And you have your title (nearly)


karlhenning

To guess purely from your hints, Luke . . . If Bach Was a Beekeeper . . . ?

lukeottevanger

Henning comes from nowhere and steals it! Correct. By Arvo Part, of course. An interesting halfway-house of a piece.

Mark G. Simon

#12 is Xenakis?

I say this only because it's in Greek. The use of quarter tones rules out Theodorakis. I don't know of any other Greek composers.

lukeottevanger

12 is Xenakis, well done. Any idea on the piece?

lukeottevanger

I can see I'm going to have to go with harder ones next time!

Larry Rinkel

Quote from: lukeottevanger on August 31, 2007, 08:11:13 AM
I can see I'm going to have to go with harder ones next time!

Yeah, right. Could 6 be from one of those late Modern Psalms Schoenberg wrote? And is 10 by Scelsi.

lukeottevanger

No, no 6 isn't late Schoenberg, but a more formative piece. You are correct that it is a vocal work, though that is not evident on this page. And the Scelsi one is not no 10, which is, however, a piece known to you.... ;)

to sum up the answers to my questions so far:

1 - ?
2 - ?
3 - Feldman - Why Patterns (Mark)
4 - Khachaturian - Piano Concerto - (Mark)
5 - Ferneyhough - ? - (Larry)
6 - Schoenberg - ? - (Larry)
7 - Part - If Bach had been a beekeeper - (Karl)
8 - ?
9 - ?
10 - ?
11 - ?
12 - Xenakis - ? - (Mark)
13 - ?
14 - ?
15 - Nancarrow - Player piano study (37) - (Mark)
16 - Tippett - 3rd Symphony - (Mark)

Larry Rinkel

Just to keep this going, 6 more from me (truly easy, unlike Luke's  :D ):

1a-4a:

(Don't forget my #20 from before. . . . )

Larry Rinkel

5a-6a:

(And then I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really must stop.)

Mark G. Simon

2 -- Götterdämmerung, the very end (while Valhalla burns)
3 -- Holst: Jupiter from the Planets
5 -- Liszt: Sonnet of Petrarch
6. -- Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Heil'ge Kreuze (well, the text is right there, for heaven's sake)

lukeottevanger

1 = Verdi Requiem
and
4 = Haydn F minor Variations

Larry Rinkel

Quote from: Mark G. Simon on August 31, 2007, 09:08:22 AM
2 -- Götterdämmerung, the very end (while Valhalla burns)
3 -- Holst: Jupiter from the Planets
5 -- Liszt: Sonnet of Petrarch
6. -- Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Heil'ge Kreuze (well, the text is right there, for heaven's sake)

I wanted to make it easy!

greg

12- Xenakis, Oresteia

YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!! i got the score  8)

greg

Quote from: lukeottevanger on August 31, 2007, 07:14:24 AM
Greg, that is very interesting - I can see how you could be led in that direction. Actually it isn't spectralist. If you look closely you'll see that there is a clear process going on, so Ligeti wasn't a bad guess either. This composer developed a very strong and personal process technique later, though not precisely this one.

wow, you're really making me think here....
i should just pull out a bunch of names  >:D
umm...... i'll take a wild guess- Schnittke?

Larry Rinkel

Quote from: lukeottevanger on August 31, 2007, 08:23:25 AM
No, no 6 isn't late Schoenberg, but a more formative piece. You are correct that it is a vocal work, though that is not evident on this page.

Jakobsleiter?

lukeottevanger

Quote from: greg on August 31, 2007, 10:08:38 AM
12- Xenakis, Oresteia

Correct  :)

Re. no 6
Quote from: Larry Rinkel on August 31, 2007, 10:21:02 AM
Jakobsleiter?

Correct  :)

That leaves 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 14, and clarification of which Ferneyhough piece is shown in no 5


And someone get Larry's no 20 soon - here's a hint: it isn't Webern. Not quite.