Quiz: Mystery scores

Karl Henning · May 17, 2015, 05:44:47 AM

Admittedly, I need to have a closer look. Hoketus somehow leapt out from the pack

Luke · May 17, 2015, 05:51:23 AM

I think you should. Because sometimes, you know, a

is just a

Karl Henning · May 17, 2015, 06:37:10 AM

Quote from: Luke on May 17, 2015, 05:51:23 AM
I think you should. Because sometimes, you know, a is just a

So they say!

Luke · May 17, 2015, 07:28:41 AM

...and a

is just a

,
a

is just a

Luke · May 17, 2015, 07:29:44 AM

(I am making myself appear mad, I know, but I'm only trying to spell out one of the answers for you, if you hadn't guessed....)

(poco) Sforzando · May 17, 2015, 08:20:08 AM

Quote from: Luke on May 17, 2015, 07:29:44 AM
(I am making myself appear mad, I know, but I'm only trying to spell out one of the answers for you, if you hadn't guessed....)

Gee, what iconic movie set in a Moroccan city during WW2 starring Bogart and Bergman does that remind me of? Play it, Sam! I think this could be the start of a beautiful friendship!

Luke · May 17, 2015, 08:22:24 AM

...so which score is it?

(poco) Sforzando · May 17, 2015, 08:36:12 AM

Quote from: Luke on May 17, 2015, 08:22:24 AM
...so which score is it?

Something about a White House? 2015-08, the sloppily handwritten one.

Luke · May 17, 2015, 08:44:15 AM

Yes - that's Steiner's Casablanca Suite, to be precise.

Luke · May 18, 2015, 03:37:15 AM

...but there are others too, where the name of the piece is staring you in the face

(poco) Sforzando · May 18, 2015, 04:23:47 AM

Quote from: Luke on May 18, 2015, 03:37:15 AM
...but there are others too, where the name of the piece is staring you in the face

Here's looking at you, kid!

Luke · May 18, 2015, 04:44:51 AM

Of all the Mystery score quizzes in all the world, you walk into this one....

listener · May 27, 2015, 07:19:53 PM

Here are three new ones to replace the ones previously identified:
7 -3 an unusual ensemble 13 - 8 appropriate for now 8 -13 popular locally
(my odd numbering keeps the scans and hint references in line)

Luke · May 27, 2015, 10:58:11 PM

The first of those - Ginastera - Cantata para America magica (third movement)

listener · May 28, 2015, 06:12:32 AM

Quote from: Luke on May 27, 2015, 10:58:11 PM
The first of those - Ginastera - Cantata para America magica (third movement)

right on! there aren't many pieces with that kind of ensemble. I have an lp which has escaped my database, reminds me to look for it. The piece could be a good demo disc on cd, and I see there is a recording on the Neos label with his opus 44, Popol Vuh for a similar combination.

Luke · May 31, 2015, 04:13:57 AM

Clues for my most recent ones -they are about three pages back:

1 - Chisholm - Piobaireachd - identified
2 - Foulds - Gandharva - identified
3 - Faure - Souvernirs de Bayreuth - identified
4 - This is from a set of variations, so try to guess the theme and it should be quite easy to find
5 - Larry got the Watergate connection; the form being employed here ought to be clear with some closer inspection - and that is the title of the piece.
6 - Awesome piece by composer of the longest piano sonata I know.
7 - Composer is clearly an artist too! Originally played on a paper trumpet...
8 - Steiner - Casablance Suite - identified
9 - The composer's wife and daughter are also composers. This piece is obviously connected to William Blake, and so are many of this composer's works.
10 - Schulz-Evler - Arabesque on the Blue Danube - identified
11 - Rossini peches de viellesse - identified
12 - I already said that some of these scores have their names all over them...
13 - This one doesn't, and it's pretty obscure, I admit. But not impossible. Microtonal, quartet plus voice...
14 - L Andriessen - Hoketus - identified
15 - Arlen - The Wizard of Oz - identified
16 - An exquisitely beautiful piece of dodecaphony by famously irrascible British composer with an even more famous father. The date and text are enough to get this one, I think.
17 - Perhaps the most famous encore of all?

And now two new ones, for the sake of it:

EigenUser · May 31, 2015, 03:21:31 PM

Luke, your #18 wouldn't happen to be Maxwell-Davies, would it?

#24

Luke · May 31, 2015, 09:02:48 PM

No, but that looks like Feldman's Cello and Orchestra (I think that was one of our mystery scores years and years ago, too, set possibly by Guido, or maybe by me...)

listener · May 31, 2015, 09:27:26 PM

Quote from: Luke on May 31, 2015, 04:13:57 AM
Clues for my most recent ones -they are about three pages back:

4 - This is from a set of variations, so try to guess the theme and it should be quite easy to find

wild guess (no keyboard handy) REIZENSTEIN 'Lambeth Walk' Variations ?

Luke · June 01, 2015, 12:17:05 AM

No, but that sounds fun - do you have a score of it? Another set of 'Variations on a popular theme' that I really, really love is Earl Wild's Variations on Someone to Watch Over Me.

Get your hands on a piano, you'll identify this one in no time, I'm sure.