Quiz: Mystery scores

[lukeottevanger]

@ everyone - 370 is one you know, for sure.

[Chrone]

371: Malcolm Arnold, "Hobson's Choice"

Hi everyone! It's been awhile.

[lukeottevanger]

371: Malcolm Arnold, "Hobson's Choice"

Hi everyone! It's been awhile.

Genius! 

And hello!

[lukeottevanger]

If you don't mind my asking, did you know that one somehow, or was it pure detective work? Or do you in fact have it in the same source I do, namely, as a sample in a book about film music?

[Chrone]

If you don't mind my asking, did you know that one somehow, or was it pure detective work? Or do you in fact have it in the same source I do, namely, as a sample in a book about film music?

As much as I hate to reveal my secrets (heeheehee), it was some fairly trivial detective work. I noticed the unusual references to shoes in the score, then Googled (with quotes as shown):

"ladies boots" "ladies shoes" "toddlers shoes"

and this link came up first:

http://books.google.com/books?id=a4tF-QPBrP4C&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=%22ladies+boots%22+%22ladies+shoes%22+%22toddlers+shoes%22&source=web&ots=YKv2k0ZQ8J&sig=Ir1sfvfgbjftUm1p-21D1QBIWyE&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

Without those textual clues I would have had no idea!

[lukeottevanger]

That's why I left them in, of course. I'f I'd given you the next page - cue: Skylight - it may have been somewhat harder.

That's the fun of this game, for me - if you don't know the score immediately, the thrill is in the chase and the detective work.

Of course, sometimes people leave unobtrusive little clues hanging around in their posts too. Couldn't possibly say if I've done that recently.  0:)

[M forever]

Can you give us a hint for 370?

[lukeottevanger]

I did

Another hint - it's English.

[lukeottevanger]

Actually, that hint isn't a very good one. I'll try to come up with another.

[lukeottevanger]

Problem is, it's a piece with such a unique and striking history that most clues will make it too easy, I suspect. Sorry to fail you like that. I'll keep thinking.

[lukeottevanger]

From the mounds of trivia I can unearth on the piece, I'll give you this nugget - this piece once caused a police raid on a radio station.

[(poco) Sforzando]

From the mounds of trivia I can unearth on the piece, I'll give you this nugget - this piece once caused a police raid on a radio station.

That could be just about anything.

[lukeottevanger]

Ah, yes, but this raid was in.....Canada!

[karlhenning]

(Dudley Do-Right?)

[Guido]

Can anyone identify this piece of music? A real Mystery Score!

It's from Wittgenstein - the inscription suggests that he is remembering it from somewhere, but it may also be his only composition.

He was a very talented musician - had perfect pitch, played the clarinet in several ensembles and considered becoming a coductor apparently. I guess musicality ran in the family!

[lukeottevanger]

Blimey, I don't know....

[lukeottevanger]

Sorry, did I just drop something? 

[karlhenning]

Somehow, Luke, I am reminded of Steve Martin mentioning in his autobiography (Born Standing Up) that he once added to his act a dramatic reading of the Periodic Table . . . .

[lukeottevanger]

Guido's looks like something by someone who's heard Heldenleben recently, possibly preceded by Rheingold...

[lukeottevanger]

Somehow, Luke, I am reminded of Steve Martin mentioning in his autobiography (Born Standing Up) that he once added to his act a dramatic reading of the Periodic Table . . . .