Pianophilia

HullandHellandHalifax wrote:Hi Tim,
This must be a record for me, I did them all within 5 minutes but to be fair to the others I will send you the answers via pm and let the others and poor Jo have a go.

How considerate, Brian! Yes, this was a 5-minuter for me, too. We're in 16th-century England, aren't we?

Jo

Well done chaps! It struck me that there seemed to be an unnaturally high
incidence of one particular first name amongst this group, and hence the
seeds of a new quiz were sown. I tried initially to include the 'J' in each one,
but it proved too difficult, hence its omission.
Rob - with this particular quiz, a quick trip to the john might have helped!
The system of separating vowels and consonants does certainly help,
although less so when Frenchmen are involved (too many vowels).
(As regards Mensa, is there a parallel organisation for fickos, which I can join?)
For the record, all these guys were English, Elizabethan, John- composers:-
1. John Bennet
2. John Bull
3. John Dowland
4. John Farmer
5. John Mundy (sometimes spelt Munday)
6. John Redford
7. John Shepherd
8. John Taverner
9. John Ward
10. John Wilbye.
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/eliza ... posers.htm

Moving forward, here we have 10 anagrams of titles of works by a certain composer.
All you need to do is associate each of these 10 works with an appropriate number.
Take the average of these numbers, and state what the 'average' work must be -
rather like the recent Haydn symphonies quiz.
They're given in chronological order, and the titles are a mixture of German and Italian.
1. Poisoning is docile (2,5,2,8)
2. Loser pirate (2,2,7)
3. I, adze (5)
4. O dear me, nice editor (8,2,2,5)
5. Dreadful mutineer anguishes (3,10,3,3,6)
6. Trickier lush desperado (3,18)
7. Voiding anon (3,8)
8. It's tune of Act (4,3,5)
9. If able, doze true (3,11)
10. Cold intimate laze (2,8,2,4).
(This particular quiz might be one which Brian may wish to avoid!)

Timtin wrote:Moving forward, here we have 10 anagrams of titles of works by a certain composer.
All you need to do is associate each of these 10 works with an appropriate number.
Take the average of these numbers, and state what the 'average' work must be -
rather like the recent Haydn symphonies quiz.
They're given in chronological order, and the titles are a mixture of German and Italian.
1. Poisoning is docile (2,5,2,8)
2. Loser pirate (2,2,7)
3. I, adze (5)
4. O dear me, nice editor (8,2,2,5)
5. Dreadful mutineer anguishes (3,10,3,3,6)
6. Trickier lush desperado (3,18)
7. Voiding anon (3,8)
8. It's tune of Act (4,3,5)
9. If able, doze true (3,11)
10. Cold intimate laze (2,8,2,4).
(This particular quiz might be one which Brian may wish to avoid!)

Too damn right Timtin, but just for that I will show you what I know of this unmentionable (in this context haha!!) individual
revenge will be forthcoming
Brian

Hi Timtin,
without giving away the answers away the end answer is Great Mass in c minor, now back to some healthy anagrams!!!!! uurrrggghhh!!! I feel unclean
regards
Brian

Correct! Interestingly, the Kochel number of no.1 is the reverse of no.10.

Timtin wrote:Correct! Interestingly, the Kochel number of no.1 is the reverse of no.10.

Haha I never spotted that in my haste to get away,
good quiz Tim
regards
Brian

Yes, good quiz, Tim. Number 3 was a dead give-away, after which everything fell into place. In sequence: 126, 208, 344, 366, 384, 486, 527, 588, 620, 621, giving the average of 427. It took longer to hunt up the K numbers than to solve the anagrams (wot no crapagrams?).

While I don't go as far as Brian in disparaging poor Wolfie, I must admit that I'm more of a Liszt junkie (sorry, Rob).

Jo

My original set of 10 included Le Nozze di Figaro rather than Il sogno di Scipione,
but the anagram for the former wasn't great, and the numbers didn't add up to a
multiple of 10.
An aversion to a particular composer to me seems a bit illogical. It implies that,
rather like in an identity parade of suspects, given a set of several unfamiliar pieces
which are stylistically very similar, one could pick out the piece by a certain composer.
How can this be? Surely a hatred of Mozart implies a hatred of Haydn, plus everyone
else who was writing in that style at that particular time, doesn't it?
How's this for a somewhat inappropriate anagram:-
A famous German waltz god (8,7,6).
I agree with the second and fifth words, but the third and fourth are both wrong.

Very clever Timtin, I do indeed have an aversion to the whole "classical" period though very late Beethoven I like and Haydn I find has a lot more humour in his music than all the others and I can listen to it and play it with minimal negative feelings, but I am in all honesty a 19th-20th century person, with leanings away from the German schools having a preference towards the Parisian scene in those periods. Incidentally this applies to organ music as well as piano music.
Colours nailed to the mast
cheers
Brian