How many classical pieces can you recognize from their scores?

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https://www.classicfm.com/lifestyle/quizzes/recognise-classical-pieces/

11/14, because I talked myself out of the correct answer twice (lol)

The one I had no clue on was a piece I've never heard.

brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 5 December 2019 19:08 (five years ago)

only got 9 of those but i only really know piano music deeper than the most iconic works

ciderpress, Thursday, 5 December 2019 19:19 (five years ago)

10/14 = solid understanding swank swank

might have done better if i wasn't v tired and watching law and order at the same time lol

mark s, Thursday, 5 December 2019 19:20 (five years ago)

got 10/14, but there were a couple where i didn't know any of the 4 pieces, and i got the last one wrong which i really should not have

jacquees, full of cobras (voodoo chili), Thursday, 5 December 2019 19:20 (five years ago)

I got 9 of them. Not too bad I guess since my score reading is only at the level of having played sax for several years as a kid

I'm mad about the one with two Puccini choices because even though I don't really know Puccini I could tell it had to be him and was left with a 50/50 guess which I got wrong.

Some of the internal evidence means of figuring them out were fun (expression markings = can't be Bach, close harmonies = can't be classical, not in 3/4 = can't be Strauss, the one which turned out to be Elgar was tricky because it included a Pedal marking but in an orchestral context)

valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 5 December 2019 19:28 (five years ago)

The Elgar was the one I had no idea on

brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 5 December 2019 19:29 (five years ago)

None of them, I'm musically illiterate.

I do know that 'Piano Concerto No. 1' is a bit of a misnomer in Grieg's case, however.

pomenitul, Thursday, 5 December 2019 19:33 (five years ago)

13/14. I don't know my Mozart very well.
Pretty funny seeing the one with a time signature change in every bar and tone cluster dissonances all over the place like "hmm now who could that be"
(after like 10 nice tonal tunes in a row that everyone knows)

ascai, Thursday, 5 December 2019 19:33 (five years ago)

Ha yeah, another friend said this quiz was a testament to style because half the answers she got were based on how the music was written rather than actually knowing the piece

brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 5 December 2019 19:51 (five years ago)

got 7 with a few lucky guesses

YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:06 (five years ago)

i got 9 - i'm pretty crummy with sheet music reading and probably would've done better if i could've played the songs on the piano but i just sorta hummed them off-keyly to myself

Mordy, Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:13 (five years ago)

4/14 because I suck at reading music. Two wrong answers in particular I kicked myself over - one because I told myself that it couldn't possibly be that piece because it wasn't the right key (it was).

just another country (snoball), Thursday, 5 December 2019 20:58 (five years ago)

lol i knew the Elgar one because it shows up in my youtube recs a lot with that first page as the thumbnail. don't think I've listened to it

ciderpress, Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:57 (five years ago)

haha

valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 5 December 2019 21:57 (five years ago)

the elgar is one of the ones i played in county orchestra but i got it wrong possibly bcz the answer i gave i also played in county orchestra at much the same time

(also this was 349857139845 years ago and my brain is turned to mush since) (and anyway i played double bass hence not what was actually in the score)

(they shd do this just showing the double bass part, that wd be the real test: "tacet 240 bars aha this is la forza del destino")

mark s, Thursday, 5 December 2019 22:17 (five years ago)

i got 7 woo

dyl, Friday, 6 December 2019 03:04 (five years ago)

11/14 (none of which were guesses), but I really should also have gotten Rite of Spring, I just saw that complicated-ass score and didn't have the energy to try to hum it in my head so I guessed Shostakovich.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 6 December 2019 03:40 (five years ago)

10/14 ... a few I had no hope on and one I just clicked on too fast.

temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 6 December 2019 04:32 (five years ago)

And Rite of Spring was the gimme, c'mon.

temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 6 December 2019 04:32 (five years ago)

10, a number of which were definitely arrived at in a similar manner as DJP's friend, also completely exhausted.

No language just sound (Sund4r), Friday, 6 December 2019 04:40 (five years ago)

which yeah not great

No language just sound (Sund4r), Friday, 6 December 2019 04:42 (five years ago)

A mere 7/14, overwhelmingly based on rhythm as my ability to conjure pitches in my head is very wobbly indeed.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 6 December 2019 04:45 (five years ago)

11/14, but only because I can kind of sight-read ("kind of" because it took an embarrassingly long time to realize the thing I was almost-but-not-quite singing was obviously swan lake)

like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 6 December 2019 05:29 (five years ago)

(i.e. if this were style alone I'd get like 0)

like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 6 December 2019 05:44 (five years ago)

The Allegri one was completely unnecessary but I'm glad it was in there because it is one of my favorite pieces from performing in college and when I saw it I went "wait... is that... lol these bastards"

brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 6 December 2019 13:23 (five years ago)

it's a lovely piece but i didn't get it bcz (a) never actually sung it (b) they carefully omitted the words? (c) it's not really about melody at that point, and i'm not sure if i could "hum" much of it even tho i love it

mark s, Friday, 6 December 2019 13:31 (five years ago)

If they had put the part with the high C in the quiz, it would have definitely been more recognizable.

brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 6 December 2019 13:35 (five years ago)

it's the piece that mozart aged 14ish transcribed in full (all parts), just from ear and memory: the official score was kept a secret bcz it was so beautiful iirc

anyway i remember reading that also aged 14ish and thinking ok i am *not* going to catch up with this fellow (it is unclear to me why i had not already realised this)

mark s, Friday, 6 December 2019 13:48 (five years ago)

11 for me :)

Jeff W, Friday, 6 December 2019 14:22 (five years ago)

10/14, not because I can sight-read (I can't), but because the time signatures and general shapes of the melodies made most of them pretty obvious.

I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Friday, 6 December 2019 14:28 (five years ago)

The Allegri one was completely unnecessary but I'm glad it was in there because it is one of my favorite pieces from performing in college and when I saw it I went "wait... is that... lol these bastards"

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I had never even heard of that piece.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 6 December 2019 16:14 (five years ago)

7, but roughly half of those were pure guesses.

Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 6 December 2019 16:21 (five years ago)

dude, it's gorgeous (and repetitive, but gorgeous nonetheless):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3v9unphfi0

brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:22 (five years ago)

(every time I've done it, I've been in the quartet)

brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:23 (five years ago)

I got the Allegri piece, but for the stupidest of reasons (Sarah Brightman's cover of Mandalay's "Beautiful" has an excerpt before it, and I listened to that a ton in high school)

like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 7 December 2019 08:31 (five years ago)


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