Name that Tune (Sheet Music Edition)

[edwardweiss]

Tea Cup-your number 5 is near the end of Schumann's Toccata Op.7-I have not tracked down any of the others yet.

[rob47]

Rob's 3 is the 1st mov of Strauss' Violin Sonata.  Amazing piece (which I've played  ) and dam tricky!

noice one bratha!

i figured a lot of pianists on here accompany a lot of violinists and so tzigane and the strauss would be instantly recognizable to some

[tea cup]

Tea Cup-your number 5 is near the end of Schumann's Toccata Op.7-I have not tracked down any of the others yet.

Correct! 2 down, 3 to go.

[retrouvailles]

Is No. 1 something by Beethoven, and is No. 4 something by Liszt?

[tea cup]

No. 1 is Beethoven, but No. 4 isn't Liszt. No. 4 was composed by the sister of another composer.

[retrouvailles]

No. 1 is from Var. 20 of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. Took me a while, I hate this piece!

[tea cup]

Correct! The variation or the entire work?

I studied it for 5 months and realised how amazing it is. I think most people would agree it is a work for the pianist and not the listener.

[retrouvailles]

Correct! The variation or the entire work?

I studied it for 5 months and realised how amazing it is. I think most people would agree it is a work for the pianist and not the listener.

The whole work I hate on the whole! That variation is actually pretty interesting because you can see the bare harmonic progression. I like some individual variations, but I don't like the work as a whole, for it gets very tedious after a while.

[retrouvailles]

Ok, is No. 2 something by Dvořák or Smetana, and is No. 4 something by Fanny Mendelssohn? I really don't have much of a clue otherwise.

[lontano]

Here is my next set. Again, posted in order of composition. The pieces are less well known, but not off the beaten path, really. I was going to post something that hasn't been recorded yet, but I'm not that mean.


No. 7

This appears to be from George Flynn's "Wound" (part 2 of "Trinity"). That business at the bottom system actually sounds pretty awesome in the right hands!

[retrouvailles]

This appears to be from George Flynn's "Wound" (part 2 of "Trinity"). That business at the bottom system actually sounds pretty awesome in the right hands!

That was already guessed correctly a few posts ago.

[tea cup]

Ok, is No. 2 something by Dvořák or Smetana, and is No. 4 something by Fanny Mendelssohn? I really don't have much of a clue otherwise.

4 is Fanny Mendelssohn (or Hensel), yes. But which piece? No. 2 is neither Dvořák nor Smetana. The composer of No. 2 wrote more than 25 sonatas.

[retrouvailles]

4 is Fanny Mendelssohn (or Hensel), yes. But which piece? No. 2 is neither Dvořák nor Smetana. The composer of No. 2 wrote more than 25 sonatas.

I don't know of any Czech composers who wrote more than 25 sonatas. I also don't know many works by Fanny Mendelssohn (I've never been drawn to her music, really), so I think that is it for me with these two.

[prongated]

...in the meantime, may I throw in 1? I'll throw in a bonus too...if any of you can get it right within the next, say, 3 days...I will record the piece and make it available...hmm actually, not sure if that's at all an incentive but anyway!

[retrouvailles]

Any hints as to what it might be? It doesn't look familiar to me at all, but I feel like I should know what it is.

[tsaij]

No. 2 is neither Dvořák nor Smetana. The composer of No. 2 wrote more than 25 sonatas.

must be dussek? though i don't know his music....

[prongated]

Any hints as to what it might be? It doesn't look familiar to me at all, but I feel like I should know what it is.

Depends on what sort of clues you are after ^^ although I think I might've mentioned this piece in this forum before...a long time ago...

[retrouvailles]

Depends on what sort of clues you are after ^^ although I think I might've mentioned this piece in this forum before...a long time ago...

Very funny. A clue as to who the composer might be would be nice.

[rob47]

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[retrouvailles]

The second one, Rob, looks like something you typeset yourself. Is it one of your transcriptions of the Prok symphonies, possibly?

[rob47]

haha yup 1st movement of op. 131

the 1st one is a sonatina for beginner to intermediate and the 3rd one I'm sure you know.

[prongated]

Very funny. A clue as to who the composer might be would be nice.

Lol. Seriously!...er, sarcastic?

Hint #1: The composer is supposedly Australian.

[retrouvailles]

Lol. Seriously!...er, sarcastic?

Hint #1: The composer is supposedly Australian.

Well, if I've never seen the sheetmusic, I don't know how you expect me to get it. I read through it, but it doesn't remind me of anything in particular.

[prongated]

Well, if I've never seen the sheetmusic, I don't know how you expect me to get it. I read through it, but it doesn't remind me of anything in particular.

O.o hmm...
Hint #2: this composer has written the commissioned work for at least 2 different international piano competitions, both of which are part of the Commonwealth. This work is actually one of them.

[retrouvailles]

I wouldn't know about what or what isn't part of the Commonwealth, not being an Australian, but I'll wager a guess anyways. Is it something by Matthew Hindson (since he has been mentioned)?

[perfect_pitch]

O.o hmm...
Hint #2: this composer has written the commissioned work for at least 2 different international piano competitions, both of which are part of the Commonwealth. This work is actually one of them.

I'll guess that the piece is by Andrew Ford or Roger Smalley...

As for what the piece is - wouldn't have a *** clue!

[mikey6]

O.o hmm...
Hint #2: this composer has written the commissioned work for at least 2 different international piano competitions, both of which are part of the Commonwealth. This work is actually one of them.

Some Aissues off the top of my head -
Grahame Kohne, Brett Dean, Larry Sitsky, Brewster-Jones, Richard Meale, Richard Mills, Peggy Glanville Hicks, Roy Agnew, Nigel Butterley, Anne Carr-Boyd, Elana Kats-Chernin

Though not sure what you mean by supposedly Australian

[prongated]

I wouldn't know about what or what isn't part of the Commonwealth, not being an Australian, but I'll wager a guess anyways. Is it something by Matthew Hindson (since he has been mentioned)?

Oh...then here's a list ^^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Commonwealth_of_Nations

No, not Hindson...the excerpt is too civilised to be a Hindson piece, although most of the piece is exciting in a random way.

Some Aissues off the top of my head -
Grahame Kohne, Brett Dean, Larry Sitsky, Brewster-Jones, Richard Meale, Richard Mills, Peggy Glanville Hicks, Roy Agnew, Nigel Butterley, Anne Carr-Boyd, Elana Kats-Chernin

Wow...that's a lot of names...but no, none of them, sorry...
...btw Peggy Glanville-Hicks? She's an enjoyable composer to listen to I think! (easy listening to you, retrouvailles ) Played a flute + piano work a few years ago by her...

I'll guess that the piece is by Andrew Ford or Roger Smalley...

...no...but like them, this composer did write the commissioned for the Sydney International Piano Competition one year. And the composer wrote at least another piece for another international piano competition in a British commonwealth nation...and the excerpt I posted is actually from that piece

Though not sure what you mean by supposedly Australian

Ah, you noticed that...I said that because this composer is one of the very few, if not the only, Australian composers who is not based in Australia. Actually, you know, I'd wager that this composer is about the only one, along with Carl Vine, whose works regularly get performed outside of Australia (although piano-wise, not as much as Vine. I think this composer is actually more known for his choral music in the States for example, whereas Vine's orchestral works are not as well-known as his solo piano works).


The excerpt I posted earlier was from the end of the piece. So, how about an excerpt from the beginning of the piece?

[retrouvailles]

I still have no clue as to who it is. I've heard a LOT of Australian piano music and that doesn't resemble anything that I have heard, or at least I don't think it does. If it's a newly commissioned piece with no recording yet, how would you expect anyone to get it?

[prongated]

I still have no clue as to who it is. I've heard a LOT of Australian piano music and that doesn't resemble anything that I have heard, or at least I don't think it does. If it's a newly commissioned piece with no recording yet, how would you expect anyone to get it?

Well, it's not a newly commissioned piece (in the sense that it's written in the previous century), and a commercial recording is available ^^

Interesting to see that you haven't come across this composer...could've been interesting for the musicology project on Australian music you worked on!

[mikey6]

It's not Nigel Westlake is it?

These are the people who wrote commissioned works for the sipc last century (aside from the one's I  already mentioned)
Graham Hair, Bozidar Kos, James Penberthy
Don Banks, Ross Edward, Raymond Hanson.

So I suppose one of those?

[perfect_pitch]

Is it MIRIAM HYDE???

I'm just trying to help identify the composer since I live in Australia... I don't really care much for the Australian music... but I'm trying to help the others out.

[nanabush]

Is rob's first one the Khatchaturian sonatina (sorry for spelling).  I didn't see if anyone had answered that one yet, but I think it might be that.

Also, if it is, it's FAR from a beginner sonatina lol.

[retrouvailles]

I don't really care much for the Australian music

You really don't know what you're missing. There is a lot of great stuff that Australians have written. Also, isn't it kind of foolish to say you don't care for an entire nation's music? I mean, judging from the Australian composers I know of, it would be pretty hard to say you don't like ANY of them.

Also, there's no way that excerpt could be Miriam Hyde. If you ask me, she's absolutely atrocious. I really don't have a clue, though.

[prongated]

Is it MIRIAM HYDE???

Lol NO!!!

Also, there's no way that excerpt could be Miriam Hyde. If you ask me, she's absolutely atrocious. I really don't have a clue, though.

Oh, so does that mean this piece is not absolutely atrocious, based on the excerpts you've seen? [I utterly hated this piece when learning the notes! They felt so random! But then again, I felt the same way when learning the Dutilleux Sonata, so...]

It's not Nigel Westlake is it?

These are the people who wrote commissioned works for the sipc last century (aside from the one's I  already mentioned)
Graham Hair, Bozidar Kos, James Penberthy
Don Banks, Ross Edward, Raymond Hanson.

So I suppose one of those?

No, not Nigel Westlake. And well, yep, he's got to be one of them alright! Just don't start playing bingo now...

[retrouvailles]

Well, since you said that the composer of this piece is pretty famous, I'll just go off of that. From those composers that mikey6 mentioned, I've only heard of Graham Hair, Don Banks, and Ross Edwards. Because the most famous of them is Ross Edwards, I'll guess that it is something by Ross Edwards. I really haven't a clue otherwise.

[prongated]

Well, since you said that the composer of this piece is pretty famous, I'll just go off of that. From those composers that mikey6 mentioned, I've only heard of Graham Hair, Don Banks, and Ross Edwards. Because the most famous of them is Ross Edwards, I'll guess that it is something by Ross Edwards. I really haven't a clue otherwise.

Hmm...OK, but those aren't the only hints I've spewed out I believe

[rob47]

Is rob's first one the Khatchaturian sonatina (sorry for spelling).  I didn't see if anyone had answered that one yet, but I think it might be that.

Also, if it is, it's FAR from a beginner sonatina lol.

it is not Khatchaturian

hints:

for #1 born in czechlosovakia
for #3 this composer also wrote 24 preludes and fugues

[rob47]

here's the answers btw

#1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahJTdGOBIiY (starts at 1'45)

#3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLw1CHmEAKg

[retrouvailles]

Argh, I should have known the Shchedrin. I love that piece. As for the Benda, yeah, there was no way I would have gotten that one.

prongated, any more hints? I still don't know yours, and now I'm quite curious to hear it.

[retrouvailles]

So, do I get another hint for that mystery Australian piece? It's really bugging me now!

[thalbergmad]

OK clever people, here is a tough one.

I will give you one clue. The composer killed himself.

Luv

Thalx

[prongated]

OK clever people, here is a tough one.

Oh wow...that is a very tough one...never heard it before, doesn't sound familiar...although I think I might've seen the title of the work and the composer's name somewhere...hmm

So, do I get another hint for that mystery Australian piece? It's really bugging me now!

Haha calm down ^^ you've heard of this guy before. No more hints are necessary really, just a Google search I mean, after all, how many Australian composers have been commissioned to write a piece for an international competition outside of Australia?

[retrouvailles]

Wow, that composer must have been terribly conservative to compose a piece like that, judging from his birth and death dates. I wonder why he killed himself? Perhaps he couldn't handle the life of being a composer?

[avetma]

Something easy

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[retrouvailles]

Haha calm down ^^ you've heard of this guy before. No more hints are necessary really, just a Google search I mean, after all, how many Australian composers have been commissioned to write a piece for an international competition outside of Australia?

I really haven't a clue. Can you please just tell me? Oh, and also tell me who recorded it so I cann see if I already have it, or so I can buy it, heh.

Something easy

Not sure about the first two. Is No. 2 Beethoven? No. 3 is the cadenza from Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2. No. 4 is Rachmaninoff's Prelude Op. 23 No. 2

[avetma]

Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, correct

No.2 is not Beethoven.

[stringoverstrung]

No 1 is liszt etude d'éxecution transcendante no 3

[avetma]

Well done

Still waiting for number two...

[tea cup]

IS TWO BY MYASKOVSKY?