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Offline ahmedito

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Riddle Game
on: July 19, 2004, 09:04:52 PM
This thread is for the RIDDLE GAME. Someone thinks of a piano composition, then everyone posts questions until someone guesses the exact piece. Whoever guesses starts a new one.
Please use your common sense and keep it guessable. You can do solo piano or pieces where the piano is VERY important in chamber music or piano concertos... Only mainstream repertoire (that means no wierd ass little known modern composers, no wierd ass little known old composers and not one out of hundreds of pieces in a cycle (like Scarlatti sonatas or Grieg lyric pieces) unless its a well known work.  Only one question per post please.

ACTIVE RIDDLER:
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PAST RIDDLERS:
Ahmedito (Sonata n.27 op. 90 in e minor)

BANNED QUESTIONS:
Whats the name of the work? (obvious)
Who composed it? (way too easy)
Questions dont have to necesarily be yes or no, except when they refer to the composer or the title of the piece.

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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #1 on: July 19, 2004, 09:11:20 PM
Are we using only yes/no questions??

If so, is it Romantic??  If not, what time period?
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #2 on: July 19, 2004, 10:09:00 PM
Time period is early 19th century
(Since this one is the first one, Im making it pretty easy)
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #3 on: July 19, 2004, 10:38:34 PM
Did Chopin compose it? Or Beethoven? Schubert?
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #4 on: July 20, 2004, 12:07:58 AM
Easy huh.... Fur elise???  :P

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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #5 on: July 20, 2004, 12:22:31 AM
These two questions are now banned: Who composed it? Whats the name of the work? either that or well make it yes or no, but I can imagine the questions:

I

A bit tedious.
LOL

No fair asking who is the composer
so, I wont answer Benji

By the way, its not fur elise. Easy but not THAT easy...
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #6 on: July 20, 2004, 12:27:31 AM
Is it a sonata?

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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #7 on: July 20, 2004, 12:55:48 AM
yes, its a sonata
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #8 on: July 20, 2004, 12:57:43 AM
Moonlight Sonata....

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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #9 on: July 20, 2004, 01:26:11 AM
Not its not the moonlight sonata. Its easy, but not that easy.
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #10 on: July 20, 2004, 01:26:59 AM
Not all questions have to be yes or no... only those reffering to the composer or to the title of the piece itself.
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #11 on: July 20, 2004, 01:48:48 AM
composer beethoven?
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #12 on: July 20, 2004, 01:53:46 AM
Yeah... told you it was easy.
Its by Beethoven
Its a Sonata (not moonlight op.27 n2)
Its early 19th century

keep guessing
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #13 on: July 20, 2004, 05:22:01 AM
Pathetique
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #14 on: July 20, 2004, 06:07:50 AM
No, its not Pathetique... theres 32 sonatas! ask some more questions, unless you want to go over them one by one...
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #15 on: July 20, 2004, 06:11:29 AM
is it a "titled" sonata?
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #16 on: July 20, 2004, 07:20:42 AM
Its not a titled sonata that I know of:

These are the ones I know of:

Pathetique sonata
Moonlight
Tempest
Aurora or Waldstein
Appasionata
Hammerklavier

Am I missing any? It doesnt have a title that I know of anyways.
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #17 on: July 20, 2004, 07:28:53 AM
Is it sonata Op.111? (beethoven's final sonata...)
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #18 on: July 20, 2004, 07:34:45 AM
no

But op111 also fits the criteria of early 19th century
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #19 on: July 20, 2004, 07:38:33 AM
Piano Sonata No.31 in Ab, Op.110!!!
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #20 on: July 20, 2004, 08:42:48 AM
nope... you can just go on counting down... I suppose its a lot interesting with harder pieces
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #21 on: July 20, 2004, 09:20:07 AM
Is it considered to be one of his more well-known or popular Sonata's? Which movement is it best know for?


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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #22 on: July 20, 2004, 09:32:45 AM
It isnt one of his most famous, but its not completely unknown. Its better known for its second movement.
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #23 on: July 20, 2004, 02:40:17 PM
ok i'm going to take a random guess (as in just open my beethoven sonatas book and look for one composed in early 19th century)

no.22 op.54 in f major
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #24 on: July 20, 2004, 03:42:16 PM
does it come (by opus number) before or after Op 53?
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #25 on: July 20, 2004, 05:06:46 PM
Its not op. 54
Its opus number is AFTER 53.
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #26 on: July 20, 2004, 05:15:26 PM
There are more titled ones that I know of ...

No.15 in D, Op.28 'Pastoral'

No.18 in Eb, Op.31 No.3 'The Hunt'

No.24 in F#, Op.78 'For Therese'

No.26 in Eb, Op.81a 'Les Adieux'     <---- I guess this one....

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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #27 on: July 20, 2004, 05:44:04 PM
How many movements?  

I will also guess Op. 109
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #28 on: July 20, 2004, 08:26:47 PM
hmm... I forgot about les adieux...

by the way, its neither les adieaux or op. 109

It has 2 movements.
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #29 on: July 20, 2004, 08:30:58 PM
Op 78?
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #30 on: July 20, 2004, 09:40:40 PM
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Op 78?

cmon, ahmedito...if it isnt op.78, Ill eat my foot
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #31 on: July 20, 2004, 09:44:23 PM
It isnt op. 78

Want some salsa for your foot?
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #32 on: July 20, 2004, 09:49:35 PM
I thought you were going to "keep it guessable".
and I decided not to eat my foot- I need it to play piano, and besides, Im not that hard up...

I cant think of another late Beethoven sonata with 2 movements and no title..
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #33 on: July 20, 2004, 09:51:52 PM
I thought it would be pretty guessable, maybe cause its been played a lot around here (including by me).... well, someone will have to look it up eventually.
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #34 on: July 20, 2004, 09:52:08 PM
Op 90?
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #35 on: July 20, 2004, 09:56:06 PM
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Op 90?


Yup that's my guess...

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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #36 on: July 20, 2004, 09:57:54 PM
BINGO!

op. 90 in E minor number 27 is one of my favorite sonatas. (And some technical stuff in there was enough to break my head for a whole year).

Next time I win, Ill make it real hard!


AMANFANG was first to guess, so how about you start a new thread Riddle game 2?
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #37 on: July 20, 2004, 11:37:52 PM
I'll just keep using this thread....  
I'm thinking of a new piece.  
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #38 on: July 21, 2004, 02:11:10 AM
amanfang whats the composers nationality?
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #39 on: July 21, 2004, 05:03:56 PM
He was German.
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #40 on: July 21, 2004, 05:12:39 PM
What type of piece is it?
(Sonata, Prelude etc...)

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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #41 on: July 21, 2004, 07:32:15 PM
What time period?
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Reply #42 on: July 21, 2004, 07:33:30 PM
Does the piece have a generic name? (Sonata, etude, prelude, tocatta, ballade, barcarolle, concerto, etc.) or a programatic name? (footsteps in the snow, Mazzepa, Rage over a lost penny...)
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #43 on: July 21, 2004, 09:23:32 PM
Time period - Romantic

Type - variations
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #44 on: July 21, 2004, 09:51:12 PM
Is it Brahm's Variations on Paganini's theme?
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #45 on: July 21, 2004, 09:56:02 PM
Is it by Schumman? (If its not, its definately Brahms)
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #46 on: July 21, 2004, 09:56:52 PM
Or his variations on a theme by Handel... ??

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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #47 on: July 21, 2004, 10:50:30 PM
It is neither Brahms nor Schumann.
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #48 on: July 21, 2004, 11:33:29 PM
So romantic german composers... not schumman or brahms with variations...

Thats a tough one. I dont suppose your considering Beethoven as romantic, cause in that case I guess:

The Diabelli variations.

Schubert variations?.... I really dont remember them.
Liszt isnt german...
Weber?.... hmmm, maybe
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Re: Riddle Game
Reply #49 on: July 22, 2004, 12:38:09 AM
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Thats a tough one. I dont suppose your considering Beethoven as romantic, cause in that case I guess:

Beethoven isnt German, he's Dutch! Hence the Ludwig Van Beethoven
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