Name that Tune (Sheet Music Edition)

[furtwaengler]

2 is Chopin's 2nd Ballade, of course.

I'm still waiting with everyone else for Prongated to end the mystery (and upload his own recording as well )

[perfect_pitch]

4.

From now on can we at least have the snippets with their key signatures at the beginning of the staff??? It almost makes it impossible to recognise if you're trying to play them.

[retrouvailles]

From now on can we at least have the snippets with their key signatures at the beginning of the staff??? It almost makes it impossible to recognise if you're trying to play them.

Well, it sure wasn't impossible for me to get it, for I got it instantly. And besides, if it's a pretty distinctive section, like this one, you shouldn't need a key signature to recognize it. Then again, I haven't had the need to play through them, for I can just look at them.

[perfect_pitch]

Well, it sure wasn't impossible for me to get it, for I got it instantly. And besides, if it's a pretty distinctive section, like this one, you shouldn't need a key signature to recognize it. Then again, I haven't had the need to play through them, for I can just look at them.

I can look at them as well and sometimes I can get it - I knew the Tchaikovsky and the Chopin Ballade in seconds, but someone had beaten me to guessing it... but I also like using them as sight-reading challenges and to play through them...

And for those you may not recognise it visually, I think it would make it a little more fair to have the signature so we can at least play it and maybe recognise it aurally.

[nanabush]

I knew both the Chopin and Rachmaninoff at first glance.

It's too easy if they give TOO much information 

[retrouvailles]

I don't want this thread to die. avetma, any hints for the one left over? And prongated, please remember to tell us what that mystery piece is! And the recording!

[avetma]

Stringoverstrung got the first one, it is Transcendental etude no.3 (Liszt). Furtwaengler got the second one - Chopin's second ballade, and you got other two.

[retrouvailles]

Stringoverstrung got the first one, it is Transcendental etude no.3 (Liszt). Furtwaengler got the second one - Chopin's second ballade, and you got other two.

Oh, I didn't see that. Well, I guess I could come up with a few more while we wait for prongated to reveal his. Or someone else could come up with some!

[avetma]

Let's see

[retrouvailles]

Let's see

No. 3 is Chopin's Variations on "La ci darem la mano". Not sure about the others.

[avetma]

Yes, it is

[richard black]

Number 1 is the first movement of Kabalevsky's 3rd Piano Concerto. Top piece!

[avetma]

True!

Come on people, what is number two? Here is some help - it was composed as His first attempt to that kind of form. And He is very well known.

[prongated]

And prongated, please remember to tell us what that mystery piece is! And the recording!

Hehe you know, you're not that far off...

...it's Graham Hair's Wild Cherries and Honeycomb. It's the compulsory piece for the Scottish International Piano Comp. in 1998. It's been recorded by Michael Kieran Harvey if you're interested. No-one got it within the time span I specified, so no recording [well, maybe one day in the audition room ^^]

A little more of the composer here: https://www.n-ism.org/People/graham.php
And the piece is actually part of his set of Transcendental Etudes, which is strangely named "Harmonice Mundi" in that website (and the score's available there too!)

[retrouvailles]

Hehe you know, you're not that far off...

...it's Graham Hair's Wild Cherries and Honeycomb. It's the compulsory piece for the Scottish International Piano Comp. in 1998. It's been recorded by Michael Kieran Harvey if you're interested. No-one got it within the time span I specified, so no recording [well, maybe one day in the audition room ^^]

A little more of the composer here: https://www.n-ism.org/People/graham.php
And the piece is actually part of his set of Transcendental Etudes, which is strangely named "Harmonice Mundi" in that website (and the score's available there too!)

Well, I have heard of Graham Hair, and some of his works, but I would not call him well known in the states. Most people have only heard of Carl Vine and maybe Peter Sculthorpe, as far as Australian composers go. I'll definitely check this one out.

[tea cup]

This piece is in D major.

[perfect_pitch]

Mozarts Sonata in D, K 576 I think... First movement - by the looks of it - the end of the exposition.

2nd one looks like a Haydn Sonata???

[prongated]

tea cup,

no. 5 is Debussy's Footprints in the Snow
Yeah, nos 1 and 2 are classical sonatas...Mozart or Haydn...let's see, let's see...

EDIT

Yeees, no. 1 is indeed the Mozart KV576 1st movt...
No. 2 is the last movt. from Haydn's Sonata in C major no. 48

[tea cup]

Correct on 1, 2, and 5! That was fast.

[retrouvailles]

No. 6 is the second movement from Hindemith's Piano Sonata No. 2. Nice piece.

[tea cup]

Yep, 6 is Hindemith's second sonata. I would argue it is his best also. Any guesses for 3 and 4? I'll come up with some hints otherwise.

[prongated]

Hiiiints please!

No. 3 looks like a classical work that is not mature...like something Beethoven would scribble in his teens, if such a thing exists...

[tea cup]

Excellent observation! You must imagine me with a monocle now. Indeed, the composer of the work in question was, in his youth, known as a very avid lover of the classical style (and his "hatred" of Wagner, which must have been a result of Wagner's involuntary influence on his music). The piece is from an early opus number. He composed all of the pieces in the work apparently, at the time, under the influence of Johannes Brahms's classical style; the influence is evident, particularly in this piece.

No. 3 is by a Russian composer. One that developed a very minimal quartet-like style in his late sonatas, much akin to the quartet-like writing of the Op. 126 Bagatelles by Beethoven.

EDIT

Excuse my mistake, but I confused the order of the sheet music. The first paragraph is about No. 4. Hah.

[mephisto]

The piece in question is Strauss' op.3 nr. 3 from funf klavierstucke. Extremely random.

[tea cup]

Correct. I think it is very beautiful piece. And I thought the pieces were supposed to be "random".

[stevebob]

True!

Come on people, what is number two? Here is some help - it was composed as His first attempt to that kind of form. And He is very well known.

That's from the development section of the Allegro maestoso of Chopin's Piano Sonata Op. 4.

[avetma]

Well done.

[retrouvailles]

No. 3 is the beginning of Nikolai Myaskovsky's Piano Sonata No. 9. If you ask me, it's greatly inferior to the likes of his 3rd sonata, which is a masterpiece.

[nanabush]

Wow they turned out small even though the images are pretty big.  Anyone know why?

I took out the third one because it was REALLY small, but you guys should be able to get the idea from these even if they're really tiny images.

[retrouvailles]

Um, isn't the second one a bit unspecific? I think I could find passages like that in multiple compositions, given that it isn't distinctive at all.

[nanabush]

If you can find several pieces that have the dim--- molto as well as the alternating notes, then I guess they'd all be right.  I'm actually curious to see other pieces that have that same passage. 

That one part though makes up about 30 seconds of the piece... people who know the piece know that part.

[avetma]

Watch this one:



 

[retrouvailles]

Oh come on, too easy. The end of the Liszt sonata.

If you can find several pieces that have the dim--- molto as well as the alternating notes, then I guess they'd all be right.  I'm actually curious to see other pieces that have that same passage. 

That one part though makes up about 30 seconds of the piece... people who know the piece know that part.

Well, maybe the dim---molto makes it distinctive, then. I'll keep a look out for it then.

[avetma]

Oh come on, too easy. The end of the Liszt sonata.

Thats kind of my point. If you know the piece - just one bar could be enough...

[furtwaengler]

Watch this one:



 

This could have just as easily been the last note of my Elegy for Trumpet and Piano...if that is what it was called. But I note the missing staff and agree it's probably the Liszt Sonata.

So we can recognize things and everything else is thievery.

If the answer is not Debussy's prelude from book one, "Ce qu'a vu le vent d'Ouest," than Retrouvailles has a good point.

(I wish there was a thumbs up smiley)

[retrouvailles]

Hmm, good job spotting that Debussy. Although, I will maintain one thing. It was a bit mean just giving us one measure, especially one that just seems so innocuous. It could either be seen as mean or clever, though, I guess.

[furtwaengler]

I guess it depends on who you are. If it had been something Graham Hair composed it would be more cruel, but I think nanabush is playing on familiarity.

His first picture is also familiar. I know I've seen those notes before, as I'm sure many others have. Jogging my brain for the correct answer before someone posts it is part of the fun.

I really like this thread though, and I have a story why, but do not have the tools to properly tell yet.

[nanabush]

Yeh, it's the Debussy

The first one is the end of a movement. I'll give that hint.  It's also an underplayed piece in that genre.

[perfect_pitch]

Watch this one:



 

Gee.. I wonder what that could be - here's my turn to post one... See if you can guess what it is...



 

Since it's a bit general - I'll give you a clue... Think romantically...

... or does anyone else thing some of these are getting a bit too obscure to identify, considering that different editions will put different articulation markings in etc... that may make it pretty much impossible to determine???

[prongated]

... or does anyone else thing some of these are getting a bit too obscure to identify, considering that different editions will put different articulation markings in etc... that may make it pretty much impossible to determine???

No, not at all. I think it's actually getting more and more into familiar territory. I mean, the vast majority of composers recently posted are mainstream, whereas in the beginning there are lots of less-known and perhaps downright obscure composers.

Yeh, it's the Debussy

...sick! I played that piece 5 years ago and didn't even think it would be that! Shows how much I paid attention I suppose... that was a good one then...

...in the meantime, care for some chamber music? I believe this is not Graham Hair-obscure!

[john11inc]

How odd to come upon a thread of mine, the destruction of which I had no part in.  Quite alien.

[thalbergmad]

[retrouvailles]

I suspect this is another obscure romantic piano concerto you picked up in your travels. What is it? Doesn't look familiar to me.

[retrouvailles]

I haven't a clue about the last two pieces, but here are my next picks. They are a bit harder than the past, but someone here has to know them. Every composer is well known.

No. 1



No. 2



No. 3



No. 4



No. 5



No. 6



No. 7

[perfect_pitch]

For some reason I think No. 2 is part of the Bartok Mikrokosmos???

[richard black]

3 is the first movement of Janacek's piano sonata ('1 X 1905') and 5 is Godowsky's transcription of the Weber Perpetuum Mobile, which in turn is the last movement of one of Weber's sonatas.

[mephisto]

Nr. 1 is Shostakovich 1st piano sonata. It's an insane piece!

[retrouvailles]

For some reason I think No. 2 is part of the Bartok Mikrokosmos???

No. It isn't even Bartók.

3 is the first movement of Janacek's piano sonata ('1 X 1905') and 5 is Godowsky's transcription of the Weber Perpetuum Mobile, which in turn is the last movement of one of Weber's sonatas.

Correct on both, however, it is not the Godowsky transcription, but the original.

Nr. 1 is Shostakovich 1st piano sonata. It's an insane piece!

Correct.

That leaves 2, 4, 6, and 7 left.

[richard black]

however, it is not the Godowski transcription, but the original.

You're right it's not the Godowsky but it's not the original either. Did Weber himself arrange it? The original in the C-major sonata has the running stuff in the RH, as does Godowsky at the start.

[retrouvailles]

You're right it's not the Godowsky but it's not the original either. Did Weber himself arrange it? The original in the C-major sonata has the running stuff in the RH, as does Godowsky at the start.

Oh, my mistake. It is the Godowsky transcription. I must have had my pdfs mislabeled.