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« Reply #780 on: 00:08:00, 27-02-2007 » |
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Let's see if I can spot the right ones...
Bax - hmm, would that be ... the... Nonet?!! (1930, I see!)
Eisler - either Nonet No 1 or No 2 or Seven movements!
Martinu - either H144 or H374!
Parry - Nonet in B flat
Spohr - Nonet in F (the only one I've actually heard!)
Funny how things click in your mind - associations of Spohr and Nonet and (more vaguely) Bax led me to Eisler... I'm so glad it wasn't an Eisler song title...
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« Reply #781 on: 17:34:23, 27-02-2007 » |
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YES! NONETS!Well done roslyn! What's the highest known numbered titled musical piece? How about: R Neil Gardner's Decimette Subtitle: Suite for 10 Woodwind & Horns I'll bet there's a word for a piece for 12 instruments, Double Sextet, or Dodeca-something 
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« Reply #782 on: 17:48:47, 27-02-2007 » |
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There is indeed a "Doppelsextett" by Mauricio Kagel. Then (straying from the matter in hand) there's Steve Reich's "Music for Eighteen Musicians", Xenakis' "ST-48" and a whole slew of late pieces by John Cage with the number of performers as their titles, "108" being the largest if I remember correctly.
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« Reply #783 on: 17:57:45, 27-02-2007 » |
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György Ligeti - Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes
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Mahler - Symphony of a Thousand?! (although has it ever been performed with a 'cast' of 1000 performers?)
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« Reply #784 on: 22:31:36, 28-02-2007 » |
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High time for a new connection to solve! Five composers this time:
Haydn
Ibert
Korngold
Richard Strauss
Mendelssohn
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« Reply #785 on: 23:18:19, 28-02-2007 » |
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Before I get too far, and too morbid in my searches, is it something like
Haydn
Ibert - Death of Lady Macbeth
Korngold - The Dead City
Richard Strauss - Death & Transfiguration
Mendelssohn
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« Reply #786 on: 23:59:51, 28-02-2007 » |
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Nothing morbid or death-laden here.
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« Reply #787 on: 00:04:07, 01-03-2007 » |
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Something briny?
Ibert Symphonie marine
Mendelssohn Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Korngold The Sea Hawk
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« Reply #788 on: 00:07:30, 01-03-2007 » |
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Nothing even remotely wet.  |
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« Reply #789 on: 11:11:05, 01-03-2007 » |
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I'm going for the Shakespeare link
Haydn - 'She Never Told Her Love' - Twelfth Night
Ibert - Macbeth
Korngold - Suite: Much Ado About Nothing
Richard Strauss - Macbeth, and also 'Elektra' libretto (Hofmannsthal) influences from Hamlet
Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night's Dream
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« Reply #790 on: 12:25:34, 01-03-2007 » |
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Not Shakespeare, but the Mendelssohn is the correct piece! |
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« Reply #791 on: 14:24:30, 01-03-2007 » |
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Hmmm - so, let's see, either 'Midsummer', 'Night/Night's' or 'Dream' are either linked to words in other titles by association with a common subject, or because they form a phrase together? Correct? Would a little clue be forthcoming?
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« Reply #792 on: 16:00:34, 01-03-2007 » |
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Well, four of the pieces are linked by something in common in the titles, but not the Mendelssohn...that one is a musical reference within the work, so dreams, nights or summer won't lead to the answer.
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« Reply #793 on: 16:39:16, 01-03-2007 » |
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are wedding bells ringing?
Mendelssohn - Wedding March, Misummer night's Dream
Korngold - Wedding Waltz
Richard Strauss - Wedding Prelude
Ibert - Un Chapeau de paille d'Italie (The Italian Straw Hat) in which he quotes Mendelssohn's Wedding March
I'm struggling with Jo Haydn, but I have:
Michael Haydn - Wedding on the Alpine Pasture
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« Reply #794 on: 17:34:27, 01-03-2007 » |
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No, it's definitely Joseph Haydn and it's not weddings as a link.
The Strauss is a little known, late piece; the Ibert and Korngold are for solo piano, the Haydn chamber.
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