Quiz: Mystery scores

[Maciek]

165

[Maciek]

166

[Maciek]

167

[amw]

On a whim, as a little sideshow to the main event, I just knocked up a single image containing a number of single moments, or at least single notes/chords/events. Very famous, all of them (one or two maybe slightly less so, but not much), and I chose them because they are all single instants which are characteristic enough to identify the whole work. Just for fun, this one, I won't keep a score of them...

a - Summer Morning by a Lake
c - Intimate Letters
f - D960
i - Alpensinfonie
k - Sibelius 5
m - The Alcotts
p - Tristan
u - Shostakovich 15

low hanging fruit time

Also I think 166 is the Rzewski Sonata, but not 100% sure.

[Luke]

All correct, of course. Told you they were straightforward! Which leaves d, h, q and s, I think. One is so famous, and in fact is also, specifically, famous in this very form, that you all definitely know it.

[Luke]

Also I think 166 is the Rzewski Sonata, but not 100% sure.

Well it definitely looks just like Rzewski's handwriting, so I think you are probably right.

[Luke]

Yes, you are right, I just checked the score.

[amw]

Missed h somehow, it's Bach's Sonata I. "You're alone." g I don't recognise though.

d is too small for me to read, though I'm sure I should be able to tell what it is without having to look closely.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Missed h somehow, it's Bach's Sonata I. "You're alone." g I don't recognise though.

d is too small for me to read, though I'm sure I should be able to tell what it is without having to look closely.

I would have thought the opening chord to Don from Bz's Pli selon pli, but even though I've got that score, it's too blurry for me to tell for sure.

[Luke]

It is indeed the Boulez, and as your post vaguely suggests, the blurriness is incidental because the chord is guessable just from its general shape. Those first few seconds and minutes of Pli Selon Pli (in fact, Don as a whole, too) are so individual, powerful and atmospheric - I listened to them over and over and over as a teenager.

[(poco) Sforzando]

165

The tenor part tells me this is a L'homme armé parody mass, but whose I can't be sure. Josquin wrote two of them; let me throw out his name as a guess.

[EigenUser]

165

It is Ockeghem's L'homme arme

[Luke]

The tenor part tells me this is a L'homme armé parody mass, but whose I can't be sure. Josquin wrote two of them; let me throw out his name as a guess.

speaking of which, this one is still hanging (though the composer has been identified)

[amw]

167 could be one of the Josquin l'homme armé masses (super voces musicales? Sexti toni is I think F in modern notation, this doesn't look like F...), the imitative style looks like him. I sometimes have to remind myself that Josquin came after Ockeghem, who in turn came after Dufay. I'm really bad with renaissance music.

[Maciek]

Hi everyone!

Also I think 166 is the Rzewski Sonata, but not 100% sure.

It is! (I know Luke confirmed this earlier, but just to double-confirm)

The tenor part tells me this is a L'homme armé parody mass, but whose I can't be sure. Josquin wrote two of them; let me throw out his name as a guess.

It's a L'homme armé mass, but not Josquin's.

It is Ockeghem's L'homme arme

That's right.

167 could be one of the Josquin l'homme armé masses (super voces musicales? Sexti toni is I think F in modern notation, this doesn't look like F...), the imitative style looks like him. I sometimes have to remind myself that Josquin came after Ockeghem, who in turn came after Dufay. I'm really bad with renaissance music.

No. It's by someone who was born, probably, a couple of years after Josquin's death - if that's any clue.

[Maciek]

Anyway, I suppose the element connecting those three (165, 166, 167) is clear now. So that's the clue to the earlier voices+instruments score (163).

[Maciek]

168

[Maciek]

169

[Maciek]

170

[Luke]

Is 169 Panufnik?