Quiz: Mystery scores

[Luke]

Another. Very obvious. Again, you're just getting a bit of the score, there are other things happening here. Same connection.

[Luke]

Last one. You may notice that most of these files are called 'mystery location x' - in fact all of them bar the first one (the piano reduction one) should be called that. And this one, #6, is actually the same location as #4.

[Luke]

I will stop there though in fact I could add a few more.

[classicalgeek]

Another. This is a big orchestral score, but you're just getting a couple of bars of the flute/picc part. Connected to the others in the same way (which, as I say, probably won't help you). Famous piece.

Is this Bax's Tintagel? The one with the flute and piccolo parts marked 'Very moderate tempo'? ("Mystery Location 4")

[Luke]

It certainly is. Well done!

[classicalgeek]

Last one. You may notice that most of these files are called 'mystery location x' - in fact all of them bar the first one (the piano reduction one) should be called that. And this one, #6, is actually the same location as #4.

"Mystery Location 6" appears to be Elgar's Second Symphony, first movement.

[Luke]

Correct. Also 'from' Tintagel... What an amazing piece. This movement is indescribably good. This is the 'ghost' section...

[classicalgeek]

"Mystery Location 5" is, of course, Vaughan Williams' 'Pastoral' Symphony,

While "Mystery Meanderings" I think is Holst - though I don't know the piece.

[Luke]

Very good on both. Holst is so clear, isn't he? This is his best piece - he thought. I tend to agree.

As I say, really that one should have been Mystery Location 1. That's a clue, especially if you think about the other ones you've got. It might help with the missing ones (get out a map?)

[classicalgeek]

It would stand to reason that the flugelhorn part is dead giveaway for the one labeled "Mystery location" - Vaughan Williams' Ninth Symphony. "Mystery location 3" looks like Vaughan Williams too, though the piece eludes me. "Mystery location 2" is really tricky - it's that font. Could it be someone as out-of-the way as Granville Bantock or Josef Holbrooke? I'm pretty stumped on this one.

As I am on your "Mystery piano reduction", as well as BWV 1080's guitar piece. I'll keep thinking...

[Luke]

It would stand to reason that the flugelhorn part is dead giveaway for the one labeled "Mystery location" - Vaughan Williams' Ninth Symphony. "Mystery location 3" looks like Vaughan Williams too, though the piece eludes me. "Mystery location 2" is really tricky - it's that font. Could it be someone as out-of-the way as Granville Bantock or Josef Holbrooke? I'm pretty stumped on this one.

As I am on your "Mystery piano reduction", as well as BWV 1080's guitar piece. I'll keep thinking...

Your guesses are all spot on except that Mystery location 2 is neither Bantock nor Holbrook. A comparable but somewhat higher level of fame, unimpeachable reputation and - imo - a much better composer than either.

[BWV 1080]

Here's one for you. This is the piano reduction (for rehearsal only) at the bottom of a choral work, which I've cut out, partly just so it's easier to read the notes, partly to deny you the text...

[Mapman]

That ('There is Sweet Music', op. 53 no. 1) is a great piece!

[krummholz]

Another. Very obvious. Again, you're just getting a bit of the score, there are other things happening here. Same connection.

This is the only one I recognize so far - it's RVW, from his 3rd Symphony (Pastoral).

[Luke]

Yes, these are both correct.

[BWV 1080]

The composer of my score was from a country that was a major participant in WW2, lived for a few years in an occupied country and then briefly served in his country's army toward the end of the war but fortunately did not see combat

[classicalgeek]

The composer of my score was from a country that was a major participant in WW2, lived for a few years in an occupied country and then briefly served in his country's army toward the end of the war but fortunately did not see combat

Could it be Hans Werner Henze? He fits the first and third of your criteria, and the second if you consider Germany 'occupied'. He also wrote several important works for guitar, most notably Royal Winter Music.

Not sure this is it... but maybe?

[Karl Henning]

I don't suppose any of the Second Viennese School wrote any pieces using guitar?

I believe Schoenberg's Serenade, Op. 24 includes guitar.

[classicalgeek]

After two relatively easy mystery scores on my part, maybe this one will be a bit more challenging? We'll see...

[Luke]

Could it be Hans Werner Henze? He fits the first and third of your criteria, and the second if you consider Germany 'occupied'. He also wrote several important works for guitar, most notably Royal Winter Music.

Not sure this is it... but maybe?

Henze was my first thought but I couldn't find this in either of the Royal Winter sonatas nor in the Tentos.  I may have missed it. But I used to listen to the Shakespeare  pieces a lot, with the score, and it doesn't look like them really