Quiz: Mystery scores

[greg]

143- Glass- Music in Contrary Motion?

[lukeottevanger]

Not quite. Like I said, say what you see. Ergo:

Glass - Music in.........

[greg]

Similar Motion?

[lukeottevanger]

forget about your motions, Greg..... 

[karlhenning]

(* ahem *)

Music in Fifths

[lukeottevanger]

Did you spot the parallel hiding in there, Karl?

[Guido]

Luke, I don't know 126 I'm afraid. I will searchit out when its revealed.

Is no.125 Walton's violin concerto? The cello concerto is far better than you think!

[lukeottevanger]

Luke, I don't know 126 I'm afraid. I will searchit out when its revealed.

Is no.125 Walton's violin concerto? The cello concerto is far better than you think!

Hmmm, yet to be convinced..... yes, this is the Violin Concerto.

[Guido]

What do you think of the violin Sonata? Oh and by the way I very much like the viola concerto now - I think my initial dislike of it was because I got to know Walton through his later works, and the viola concerto seemed a bit plain in comparison with the lush and exotic tone of his later works. I still wish it had a bit more variation throughout (it all becomes a bit samey after a while), but I realise that it is a work of great subtlety and poetry.

[Mark G. Simon]

Not quite. Like I said, say what you see. Ergo:

Glass - Music in.........

Twelve Parts

[Symphonien]

146 is Ligeti's Concert Românesc.

It was banned for a single F# in the context of F Major. I remember seeing that exact section of score in the notes for Ligeti Project II.

[Symphonien]

Is 128 a work by Arvo Pärt? From the instrumentation it looks as if it's something for chorus and organ but I have no idea which since I haven't heard much from him... If so, I'll take a wild guess and say An den Wassern zu Babel saßen wir und weinten.

[lukeottevanger]

146 is Ligeti's Concert Românesc.

It was banned for a single F# in the context of F Major. I remember seeing that exact section of score in the notes for Ligeti Project II.

Correct. And that hideous, heinous F# is seen in the clarinet part of the first bar of this sample. And yes, that is where I got the score from, too!

Is 128 a work by Arvo Pärt? From the instrumentation it looks as if it's something for chorus and organ but I have no idea which since I haven't heard much from him... If so, I'll take a wild guess and say An den Wassern zu Babel saßen wir und weinten.

It is chorus and organ, but it isn't Part, though it is every bit as ravishing as Part and then some. A much more famous composer. 

[lukeottevanger]

Twelve Parts

No, Karl already got it - Music in Fifths.

[lukeottevanger]

TTT, as before (smaller font required now!)

Just FYI, and as an extra, general clue, there are some of mine which come from major works which most of you will certainly know, so if you look at them carefully you will probably recognise them. At the most cautious estimate, I'd say they are numbers 89, 109 and 113.


Set by Sean:
1 - Bach - D minor Cello Suite - (Larry)
2 - Bach - E flat Cello Suite - (Larry)
3 - Bach - C minor Cello Suite - (Larry)
4 - Messiaen - Excerpt from Vingt Regards - (Larry)
5 - Messiaen - Excerpt from Vingt Regards - (Larry)
6 - Messiaen - Excerpt from Vingt Regards - (Larry)
7 - Messiaen - Excerpt from Vingt Regards - (Larry)

Set by Larry:
1 - Bach - B minor Mass 'Quoniam' - (Novitiate)
2 - Nielsen - Sixth Symphony - (Mark)
3 - Beethoven - Quartet op 95 - (CS)
4 - Schumann - Carnaval 'Chopin' - (Mark)
5 - Elgar - Cello Concerto - (Novitiate)
6 - Falla - Harpsichord Concerto - (Mark)
7 - Rzewski - The People United... - (Luke)
8 - Brahms - G major Sextet - (Luke)
9 - Berg - Wozzeck Act II interlude - (Luke)
10 - Mahler - Ninth Symphony - (Maciek)
11 - Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maitre - (Luke)
12 - Petterssen - 7th Symphony - (M Forever)
13 - Carter - SQ 1 - (Luke)
14 - Shostakovich - Symphony 15 - (Luke)
15 - Monteverdi - Orfeo - (Novitiate)
16 - Elgar - String Quartet - (Luke)
17 - Gorecki - Symphony 3 - (Luke)
18 - Bizet - Carmen - (Luke)
19 - Ligeti - Etude 'L'escalier....' - (Luke)
20 - Weber - Sonata 2 - (Luke, but I refused to say because I Googled it; Guido was first to identify it)
21 - Stockhausen - Klavierstucke IX - (Luke)
22 - Handel - Orlando - (Luke)
23 - aka 1a - Verdi - Requiem - (Luke)
24 - aka 2a - Wagner - Götterdämmerung - (Mark)
25 - aka 3a - Holst - Jupiter - (Mark)
26 - aka 4a - Haydn - F minor Variations - (Luke)
27 - aka 5a Liszt - Petrarch Sonnet - (Mark)
28 - aka 6a Schoenberg - Pierrot - (Mark)
29 - aka 6 - six samples plus 'what is the link'
    Bach - Double Violin Concerto (Luke)
    Schumann - Davidsbundlertanze - (Luke)
    Mendelssohn - Scottish Symphony - (Luke)
    Tchakovsky - Serenade for Strings - (Luke)
    Webern - Symphony - (Luke)
    Ravel - Tzigane - (Luke)
    Link = all used by Balanchine - (Luke)
30 aka 21 - Wolf - String Quartet - (Luke)
31 aka 22 - Delius - Irmelin Prelude - (Luke)
32 aka 23 - Wolf - Der Corregidor - (Luke)
33 aka 24  - Crawford Seeger - String Quartet - (Luke)
34 aka 25 - Lutoslawski - Third Symphony - (Luke)
35 aka 26 - Goldmark - Rustic Wedding Symphony - (Luke)
36 aka 27 - Orff - Antigone - (Luke)
37 aka 'Last'! - Bolcom - Songs of Experience - (Luke)
38 aka 41 - Shapero - Symphony for Classical Orchestra - (Guido)
39 aka 42 - Machaut - Mass (Credo) - (Luke)
40 aka 43 - Rouse - Gorgon - (Luke)
41 aka 44 - Beethoven - Merkenstein (duet op 100) - (Luke)
42 aka 45 - Markevitch - L'Envol d'Icare - (Luke)
43 aka 46 - Markevitch - Icare - (Luke)
44 aka 47 - Kupferman - Symphony 3 - (Luke)
45 aka 48 - WF Bach - Polonaise in C minor (Luke)
46 aka 49 - Grofe - Grand Canyon Suite - (Mark)
47 aka 50 - Carter - Concerto for Orchestra - (Luke)
48 aka 51 - Barraque - Sequence - (Luke)
49 aka 52 - Glass - Akhenaten - (Luke)

Set by Luke:
1 - Martinu - Symphony 6 - (Larry)
2 - Tavener - In Alium - (Larry)
3 - Feldman - Why Patterns (Mark)
4 - Khachaturian - Piano Concerto - (Mark)
5 - Ferneyhough - Sieben Sterne - (Larry)
6 - Schoenberg - Jakobsleiter - (Larry)
7 - Part - If Bach had been a beekeeper - (Karl)
8 - Scelsi - Anahit - (Maciek)
9 - Kurtag - Grabstein fur Stephan - (Edward)
10 - Havergal Brian - Gothic Symphony - (Larry 1st by exclamation; Karl 1st by use of English language)
11 - Cage - Concerto for Prepared Piano - (Maciek)
12 - Xenakis - Oresteia - (Greg)
13 - Adams - Harmonielehre - (Maciek)
14 - Ives - The Housatonic at Stockbridge - (Larry)
15 - Nancarrow - Player piano study (37) - (Mark)
16 - Tippett - 3rd Symphony - (Mark)
17 - Villa-Lobos - Bachainas Brasileras 2 (the train one...) - (Larry)
18 - Boulez - Le soleil des eaux (Maciek)
19 - Liszt - Dante Symphony - (Larry)
20 - Ligeti - Violin Concerto (Larry)
21 - Nyman - Drowning by NUmbers - (Maciek)
22 - Vaughan Williams - Symphony 9 - (Larry)
23 - Dvorak - Violin Concerto - (Guido)
24 - Finnissy - Red Earth - (Maciek)
25 - Varese - Nocturnal - (Larry)
26 - Dvorak - String Quartet op 9 - (Larry)
27 - Martin - Mass for double choir - (Maciek)
28 - Respighi - Feste Romane - (Maciek)
29 - Balakirev - 1st Symphony - (Maciek)
30 - Janacek - Suite for Strings - (Edward)
31 - Schnittke - String Trio - (Guido)
32 - Reger - Mozart Variations - (Larry)
33 - Bernstein - Chichester Psalms - (Larry)
34 - Maxwell Davies - Ressurection - (Maciek)
35 - Britten - Nocturnal - (Manuel)
36 - Boulez - Rituel - (Larry)
37 - Stockhausen - Formulas for Licht - (Edward)
38 - Enescu - Cînt T?cut - (Maciek)
39 - Cardew - Treatise - (Maciek)
40 - Kancheli - Symphony 5 - (Edward)
41 - Martinu - Fantasie for Theremin (etc) - (Edward)
42 - Partch - Castor and Pollux - (Maciek)
43 - Kurtag - from Jatekok - (Karl)
44 - ?
45 - Rzewski - Coming Together - (Edward)
46 - Schnittke - Violin Sonata 2 - (Edward)
47 - Powell - Serebryaniy vek - (Maciek)
48 - Rihm - Jagden und Formen - (Edward)
49 - Takahashi - Sa - (Maciek)
50 - Komitas [Vardapet] - Dances - (Maciek)
51 - [Pavel] Haas - Suite for Oboe and Piano - (Maciek)
52 - Burgess - Concertino - (Maciek)
53 - Birtwistle - Monody for Corpus Christi - (Symphonien)
54 - Takemitsu - From Me Flows What You Call Time - (Steve)
55 - ?
56 - Bryars - Cello Concerto - (Guido)
57 - ?
58 - Schoenberg - something for male voice choir, TBC - (Larry)
59 - ?
60 - ?
61 - Respighi - Violin Sonata - (Maciek)
62 - ?
63 - Godowsky - Study after Chopin no 45 - (Maciek)
64 - Finnissy - Song 9 - (matticus)
65 - Debussy - Pièce pour le Vêtement du blessé - (Greg)
66 - R Strauss - The Castle by the Sea - (Larry)
67 - Satie - Messe des Pauvres - (Maciek)
68 - Korngold - Piano Trio - (Mark)
69 - ?
70 - Janacek - Mladi - (Mark)
71 - Souster - Sonata - (Guido)
72 - ?
73 - ?
74 - ?
75 - ?
76 - Messiaen - Et Expecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum - (Steve)
77 - Casella - A la Maniere de Richard Strauss - (Maciek)
77 - ? (sorry, just saw this mistake in numbering - two no 77s!  )
78 - ?
79 - Baird - Erotyki - (Maciek)
80 - Barrett - Coigitum - matticus
81 - MacDowell - Sonata Eroica (no 2) - (Steve)
82 - ?
83 - Schnittke - Psalms of Repentance - (Greg)
84 - Benjamin - At First LIght - (Greg)
85 - ?
86 - ?
87 - ?
88 - ?
89 - ?
90 - Lutoslawski - Paroles Tissees - (Maciek)
91 - Dillon - East 11th St NY 10003 - (matticus)
92 - Mahler/Cooke - 10th Symphony - (Mark)
93 - Bridge - Piano Sonata - (Guido)
94 - Bolcom - New Etudes - (Mark)
95 - Busoni - Second Sonatina - (Steve)
96 - Xenakis - Herma - (matticus)
97 - Sibelius - Luonnotar - (Mark)
98 - ?
99 - Rodney Bennett - Noctuary - (Steve)
100 - ?
101 - Shostakovich - 4th Symphony - (Karl)
102 - ?
103 - Panufnik - Autumn Music - (Maciek)
104 - ?
105 - ?
106 - Ferneyhough - Transit - (matticus)
107 - Crumb - Five Pieces for Piano - (matticus)
108 - ?
109 - ?
110 - Skempton - senza licenza - (Guido)
111 - ?
112 - ?
113 - ?
114 - Holloway - Romanza - (Guido)
115 - ?
116 - ?
117 - ?
119 - Vaughan Williams - Serenade to Music - (Mark)
120 - ?
121 - Maxwell Davies - The Lighthouse - (Mark)
122 - Vaughan Williams - A Sea Symphony - (Mark)
123 - ?
124 - ?
125 - Walton - Violin Concerto - (Guido)
126 - ?
127 - ?
128 - ?
129 - Panufnik - Universal Prayer - (Maciek)
130 - ?
131 - Brahms - Nänie - (Mark)
132 - ?
133 - ?
134 - ?
135 - ?
136 - Maxwell Davies - Eight Songs for a Mad King - (Mark)
137 - La Monte Young - various Compositions - (Karl)
138 - ?
139 - ?
140 - ?
141 - ?
142 - ?
143 - Glass - Music in Fifths - (Karl)
144 - ?
145 - ?
146 - Ligeti - Concert Românesc - (Symphonien)
147 - ?
148 - ?
149 - Ellington - Heaven (from The Sacred Concerts) - (Symphonien)
150 - ?
151 - ?
152 - ?
153 - Adams - Harmonium - (Guido)
154 - ?
155 - Babbitt - Philomel - (Greg)
156 - ?
157 - ?
158 - Clara Schumann - op 23/3 - (Larry)
159 - ?
160 - ?
161 - Webern - Kinderstuck - (Greg arr. Karl)
162 - Harrison - Peace Piece - (Guido)
163 - Ades - Arcadiana - (Guido)
164a and 164b (same piece_ - ?

Set by Greg:
1 - Corigliano - Symphony 1 - (revealed by Greg)
2 - Takemitsu - Distance - (Maciek)
3 - Reich - Piano Phase - (Larry)
4 - Ligeti - Viola Sonata - (Edward)
5 - Adams - Phrygian Gates - (Guido)
6 - Kagel - String Sextet - (revealed by Greg)
7 - Prokofiev - PC 1 - (Luke)
8 - Xenakis - Jonchaies - (revealed by Greg)
9 - Debussy - La Mer - (Larry)
10 - Norgard - Symphony 6 -(revealed by Greg)
11 - Takemitsu - Corona - (Luke)
12 - Takemitsu - November Steps - (Luke)
13 - Webern - Canons op 16 - (Karl)
14 - Stravinsky - Soldier's Tale - (Karl)
15 - Lachenmann - Mouvement (- vor der Erstarrung) - (Luke)
16 - Ferneyhough - Lemma-Icon-Epigram - (Larry)
17 - Grisey - Les Espaces Acoustiques (Partiels) - (Luke)
18 - Shostakovich - Violin Concerto 1 - (Luke)
19 - Xenakis - Terretektorh - (Maciek)
20 - Xenakis - ATA - (Maciek)

Set by Guido:
1 - presumably Sorabji - ? Guido doesn't know which - (Luke)
2 - Schumann - E flat Variations - (Luke)
3 - Ives - first of 114 Songs - (Luke)
4 - Stravinsky - for the five fingers - (Luke)
5 - Barber - Piano Sonata - (Larry)
6 - Previn - Cello Sonata - (Maciek)
7 - Finzi - Cello Concerto - (Luke)
8 - Piazzolla - Libertango - (Maciek)
9 - Bernstein Clarinet Sonata - (Mark)
10 - Poulenc - Cello Sonata - (Larry)
11 - Stravinsky - Requiem Canticles - (Mark)
12 - Kodaly - Solo Cello Sonata- (Larry)
13 'buggered up'
14 - Carter - Cello Concerto - (Luke)
15 - Holst - Invocation - (Luke)
16 - Dietrich - 1st mvt of FAE Sonata - (Luke)
17 - Bloch - Suite for Viola arr. Cello - (Luke)
Couldn't find no. 18...
19 - Ives - Fourth Symphony - (Larry)
20 - really not worth putting up, Guido! This is a little fragment from a larger set by me, this bit in particular called 'A cage went in search of a bird' (from Kafka)

Set by Manuel:
1 - Prokofiev - PC 2 - (Maciek)
2 - Rzewski - Which Side Are You On - (Luke)
3 - de Beriot - Violin Concerto 9 - (Luke)
4 - Wieniawski - Four Etudes (no 2) for Two Violins - (Luke)

Set by Maciek:
1 - Szymanski - Piano Concerto - (Luke)
2- Kilar - Piano Concerto (Luke)
3 - Lutoslawski - Paganini Variations - (Mark)
4 - Szymanowski - 4th Symphony - (Luke)
5 - Serocki - Fort e piano - (Luke)
6 - Meyer - SQ 3 - (Luke)
7 - Zarebski - Piano Quintet - (Luke)
8 - Penderecki - String Quartet 1 - (Greg)
9 - Chopin - Cello Sonata - (Luke)
10 - Gorecki - Genesis I - (Luke)
11 - ?
12 - ?
13 - ?
14 - Bacevi?ius - Vision - (Luke)
15 - ?
16 - Moniuszko - Rybka - (Luke)
17 - Kilar - Angelus - (Luke)
18 - ?
19 - Szymanowski - 6 Kurpain Songs - (Luke)
20 - Penderecki - Song of the Cherubim - (Luke)
21 - Cage - Bacchanale - (Luke)
22 - Ives - Song Without (Good) Words - (Luke)
23 - Cowell - Banshee - (Luke)
24 - ?
25 - Bartok - Bagatelle no 3 - (Luke)
26 - Zarebski - Les Roses et Les Epines - (Luke)

Set by Steve:
1 - Stamp - String Quartet No. 556(b) for Strings In A Minor (Motoring Accident) - (Maciek)
2 - Bartok - String Quartet 4 - (Larry)
3 - Falla - Homenaje a Debussy - (Luke)
4 - Webern - op 10 Pieces - (Luke)
5 - Stravinsky - Rite of Spring - (Karl)
6 - Coltrane - Giant Steps - (Luke)
7 - Albeniz - Suite Espanola (Sevilla) - (Luke)
8 - ?
9 - Scarlatti - Sonata S3/K513 - (Luke)
10 - Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge - (Luke)
11 - Cordier - Belle, Bonne, Sage - (Luke)
12 - Stravinsky - Octet - (Larry)
13 - Brouwer - La Espiral eterna - (Luke)
14 - Carter - Changes - (Luke)
15 - ?
16 - ?
17 - ?
18 - Ponce - Sonata Meridional - (Luke)
19 - Liszt - Nuages Gris - (Larry)
20 - Bach - Fugue  BWV 997 - (matticus)
21 - Bach - Cantata BWV 21 - (Larry)

[Symphonien]

149: Duke Ellington - Heaven

53: The closest thing I can find is Birtwistle's Monody for Corpus Christi for soprano, flute, violin and horn but you said it was for voice + two instruments...

[lukeottevanger]

Yes, you're right on both - and apologies for my lack of concentration (again) over the Birtwistle clue all those weeks ago!

[lukeottevanger]

Onwards and upwards,



Well, to 163 and then I'll stop for a few days, promise.....

150 - vocal part only; the other part isn't available.

151 - the end of a movement here, from one of a set of six Sonatinas. Spot the quotation - this is the point at which it is most clear, but the whole Sonatina is based on the three constituent parts of this quotation.

[lukeottevanger]

152 - another one taken from liner notes - same label as the other one I had. The pianist who recorded it on this label also recorded no 156 on the same label

[lukeottevanger]

153 - a positively pornographic piece, I've chosen the - shall we say - 'climax' of the last movement (well, the final convulsions are on the next page). This isn't my interpretation, it is written into the text set, though that isn't clear here (obviously and understandably the chorus lose the ability to enunciate properly at this point!).