Quiz: Mystery scores

[Mark G. Simon]

LO 122 -- RVW again. This one is the Sea Symphony

[lukeottevanger]

All correct, Mark. 

134 - no clues yet. The composer is the key here; for all I know, the piece may be impossible to find, so I will chip in if necessary.

[lukeottevanger]

135 - one of the monuments of Experimental Music [British Division]. This composer is already represented on this thread. That makes it rather easy, perhaps.

136 - quite easy, I think. A sort of modern counterpart to Steve's no 11, Cordier's heart-shaped acrostic score, I think, though that isn't a clue, it's simply blatantly obvious!

[Mark G. Simon]

LO 136 -- Peter Maxwell Davies again. 8 Songs for a Mad King

[lukeottevanger]

137 - four pieces here, all by the same composer. The titles aren't much help, I don't really know why I blanked them out.   

[lukeottevanger]

138 - back to basics: a nice straightforward score here.

[lukeottevanger]

LO 136 -- Peter Maxwell Davies again. 8 Songs for a Mad King

Yep

[Mark G. Simon]

LO 131- Brahms: Nänie

[lukeottevanger]

Correct on the Brahms, Mark. A beautiful piece, isn't it?

139 - this score is adorned with skeletons, skulls, coffins and Dies Irae trumpets. As perhaps you can see.   

140 - composer is very clear, I think, with his idiosyncratic markings and prophetic techniques

141 - as the note at the top of the score says, this piece uses a special notation invented by.....

142 - as 138: keeping it simple

[lukeottevanger]

Sean, do I see you lurking on this thread? See what you've done? 

[lukeottevanger]

143 - say what you see....

144 - I'm know for sure there's lots to say about this composer, but as far as I'm concerned he only features in my CD collection on a recording of Porgy and Bess.

[Sean]

Hello there guys, hope you're getting on okay. Hey this is must be the longest thread I ever started! I'd be well out my depth though, I'm not sure how you boffins can find so many answers!

For the moment there's no way I can find time for the forum here- I need to find a better job for one thing, hoping then to work till I can do a doctorate on something in minimalism next year at Birmingham uni. At 38 it's kind of a mad idea but verbiage is the only thing I'm qualified for anyway.

Presently listening to Schubert songs and masses, Haydn quartets, Sacchini's Oepide and The Tales of Hoffmann.

Have fun!

[karlhenning]

137 is La Monte Young

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Compositions 1960, I suppose :-)

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[karlhenning]

So Sean appears, comments on the thread, and goes promptly guest again?

[lukeottevanger]

Is he 'Guest' already? I didn't even have time to give him the proper 'hello' I wanted to...

Correct on the La Monte Young, Karl. And I'll give you the titles, though they're aren't precisely right!

145 - no comment (except LOL) just yet

146 - as soon as you look at this piece, I am sure you will agree with me that its absurdly modernist idiom meant that it absolutely merited the censure it received. It was in fact banned, and the stated reason for this banning is to be found on this page.

[lukeottevanger]

147 - no clues yet

[karlhenning]

In the Wild Guess Department, Luke, I'm saying Britten on 146, just because it looks so much like the Jubilate Deo we've been rehearsing at St Paul's.

[lukeottevanger]

In the Wild Guess Department, Luke, I'm saying Britten on 146, just because it looks so much like the Jubilate Deo we've been rehearsing at St Paul's.

'fraid not, Karl. An early and little known piece by a famous composer already on this thread more than once.

148 - I wish I could track down a recording of this piece, just for fun, but I don't think there is one. This is a collaborative effort between two composers, each a specialist in one of the disciplines it embodies. Either composer will do, but if you get one you will probably get the other

[greg]

137 - four pieces here, all by the same composer. The titles aren't much help, I don't really know why I blanked them out.   

i could tell it was LaMonte Young, with the butterfly thing going on- but whoa, that other stuff on the page..... 

[lukeottevanger]

149 - also no clues yet here.

That's the last one.