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Title: Mystery track!
Post by: lukeottevanger on April 08, 2007, 12:18:27 PM
I don't tend to be much of a thread starter, but seeing as we're all still in party mood  ;D here's a clip I've been longing to test you all out on. Simple question: who's the composer?
Title: Re: Mystery track!
Post by: not edward on April 08, 2007, 12:25:30 PM
You? :)
Title: Re: Mystery track!
Post by: lukeottevanger on April 08, 2007, 12:26:46 PM
Why thank you. No.

;D

Title: Re: Mystery track!
Post by: BachQ on April 08, 2007, 12:30:54 PM
Bruckner
Title: Re: Mystery track!
Post by: knight66 on April 08, 2007, 12:34:11 PM
I am never any good at this sort of thing...it sounds like a song to me, Lehar?

Mike
Title: Re: Mystery track!
Post by: lukeottevanger on April 08, 2007, 12:38:02 PM
D moll, you are not taking this seriously! >:( >:( (where's the police smiley gone?)  ;D

Wouldn't it be perception changing if 'twas Bruckner, though? So think along those lines.... ;)

Mike - it's a solo piano piece. Carries on in this vein for a couple of minutes.
Title: Re: Mystery track!
Post by: knight66 on April 08, 2007, 12:55:28 PM
Right, I though perhaps you were making a transcription. No good really me guessing, if it was remotely obvious you would not have posted it and I need the at least remotely obvious.

Mike
Title: Re: Mystery track!
Post by: lukeottevanger on April 08, 2007, 12:57:43 PM
No, obvious it isn't, I must admit.
Title: Re: Mystery track!
Post by: carlos on April 08, 2007, 01:06:55 PM
Ernesto Lecuona?
Title: Re: Mystery track!
Post by: lukeottevanger on April 08, 2007, 01:08:39 PM
Sensible suggestion. Too sensible  ;)
Title: Re: Mystery track!
Post by: lukeottevanger on April 09, 2007, 01:00:30 PM
Shall I take it that you all give up then?
Title: Re: Mystery track!
Post by: Joe Barron on April 09, 2007, 01:16:19 PM
I'm going to take a wild stab and say Gottschalk.
Title: Re: Mystery track!
Post by: lukeottevanger on April 09, 2007, 01:18:56 PM
No, sorry. Seem to have trapped you all in my carefully laid cage.
Title: Re: Mystery track!
Post by: not edward on April 09, 2007, 01:20:52 PM
Which piece? I didn't recognize it at all.
Title: Re: Mystery track!
Post by: lukeottevanger on April 09, 2007, 01:24:37 PM
Fads and Fancies in the Academy (from 1940, too) A movement called 'Reactionaries' (though it's only one of a few movements in such surprising stylistic garb) - apparently this one is facetiously notated in all sorts of irrelevant metres, however  ;D
Title: Re: Mystery track!
Post by: not edward on April 09, 2007, 01:26:29 PM
Ah...never heard the piece before.

I did think it was 20th century, if only because it sounded like reactionary music written by someone who liked Satie. I guess I was a lot closer than I realised. ;)
Title: Re: Mystery track!
Post by: lukeottevanger on April 09, 2007, 01:27:25 PM
Quote from: edward on April 09, 2007, 01:26:29 PM
reactionary music written by someone who liked Satie. I guess I was a lot closer than I realised. ;)

You certainly were! Well done!

(This wasn't very fair of me, I know.  ;)  I just love the fact Cage wrote something of this sort, so, any old excuse to post it!)
Title: Re: Mystery track!
Post by: not edward on April 09, 2007, 01:36:54 PM
Oh, definitely. I used to play similar tricks on people by playing snippets from Schnittke film soundtracks. ;)

(And of course, there's that old standby, the slow movement of DSCH's 2nd piano concerto.)
Title: Re: Mystery track!
Post by: lukeottevanger on April 09, 2007, 01:38:25 PM
Quote from: edward on April 09, 2007, 01:36:54 PM
Oh, definitely. I used to play similar tricks on people by playing snippets from Schnittke film soundtracks. ;)

Yes, I have a Kancheli one like that...
Quote from: edward on April 09, 2007, 01:36:54 PM(And of course, there's that old standby, the slow movement of DSCH's 2nd piano concerto.)

Well, that one's almost literally by Beethoven, of course (slow movement of PC5)!
Title: Re: Mystery track!
Post by: Brian on April 09, 2007, 05:48:15 PM
Dang! I was going to say Granados  >:( ;D