The Radio 3 Boards Forum from myforum365.com
16:42:35, 01-12-2008 *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
News: Whilst we happily welcome all genuine applications to our forum, there may be times when we need to suspend registration temporarily, for example when suffering attacks of spam.
 If you want to join us but find that the temporary suspension has been activated, please try again later.
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register  

The Radio 3 Boards > General Chat > The Coffee Bar > Sounds Familiar!
Pages: 1 2 [3] 4 5 ... 12
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: Sounds Familiar!  (Read 6149 times)
roslynmuse
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 1615
« Reply #30 on: 17:51:28, 14-02-2007 »
Thanks for the recommendations, John, will give them a try. I remember liking The Garden of Fand when I heard it too, so maybe I'll find a way in.
Logged
roslynmuse
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 1615
« Reply #31 on: 18:13:17, 14-02-2007 »
Or is it one of the Haydn Violin Concertos?
Logged
John W
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 3644
« Reply #32 on: 18:23:47, 14-02-2007 »
Heh heh, that was not the original No 10 in my old quiz, swapped for something a bit harder, thought it might fox some of you.

Not Mozart, not Haydn, I'll just say it was writen in the 19th century, but only just.
Logged
Il Grande Inquisitor
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 4665
« Reply #33 on: 18:29:03, 14-02-2007 »
Ah, It's Beethoven's Romance op.40 for violin and orchestra.
Logged
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
John W
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 3644
« Reply #34 on: 18:38:31, 14-02-2007 »
Excellent, Il Grande Inquisitor.

So the first Sounds Familiar! quiz endeth, bit of a mixed reception. I said it would be easy, could have made it very difficult if I'd picked random things off my shelf  Wink

Ideas for next sound quiz welcome, or anyone can try and do the same sort of thing on this same thread.

John W
Logged
roslynmuse
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 1615
« Reply #35 on: 18:45:13, 14-02-2007 »
Thanks for the fun!

 Grin
Logged
John W
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 3644
« Reply #36 on: 19:26:33, 14-02-2007 »
Thanks ros, and thanks to everyone (including the grumps  Tongue ) who participated.

I have a web form I could use where 10 questions can be listed with their sound clips, and 10 or up to 10 answers can be submitted (they arrive in my e-mail inbox). That would better test anyone's general knowledge, or knowledge of one particular composer etc etc.,  and we might get just one 'winner'.

I'll consider that if no other ideas are forthcoming.

John W
Logged
oliver sudden
Admin/Moderator Group
*****
Posts: 6411
« Reply #37 on: 00:36:46, 19-02-2007 »
Ollie HIGHLY RECOMMENDS clicking on all the links in quick succession. Smiley
Logged
John W
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 3644
« Reply #38 on: 00:42:55, 19-02-2007 »
Does that work? I don't want to crash my already troublesome PC  Wink

I'm going to do another quiz where folks submit their answers on a form. It will be a bit tougher but if I keep it to music that I know quite well then it won't be too tough  Wink

(make note: dig out those albums of Goudimel and Berwald for Ollie  Grin )


Anyway, the first quiz is now closed. The clips were extracts from:

composer 1. Holst
work 1. 'Venus' from 'The Planets'

composer 2. Grieg
work 2. Peer Gynt 'Hall of the Mountain King'

composer 3. Beethoven
work 3. Symphony No 6

composer 4. Rossini
work 4. Largo Al Factotum Barber of Seville

composer 5. Mozart
work 5. Piano Concerto No 23, 3rd movmt

composer 6. Vivaldi
work 6. Laudamus te from Gloria RV 589

composer 7. Bax
work 7. Tintagel

composer 8. Beethoven
work 8. Piano Sonata No 8 Op 13, 'Pathetique'

composer 9. Dvorak
work 9. Symphony No 9

composer 10. Beethoven
work 10. Romance in G major Op 40

Cheers,

John W
« Last Edit: 15:15:54, 19-02-2007 by John W » Logged
John W
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 3644
« Reply #39 on: 16:59:38, 19-02-2007 »
'SOUNDS FAMILIAR" QUIZ NO. 2

The second quiz is up now, the 10 questions are again related to sound clips but this time they are on a form, so entrants will get a score.

The quiz should be a bit tougher this time; there are no obscure pieces of music, but hopefully they are much more interesting than the first selection, spanning over 250 years.

R3 Boards 'Sounds Familiar' Quiz No 2

Good luck,

John W
Logged
oliver sudden
Admin/Moderator Group
*****
Posts: 6411
« Reply #40 on: 19:52:03, 19-02-2007 »
Dearie me, I don't know all that much music do I? Sad
Logged
John W
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 3644
« Reply #41 on: 20:01:04, 19-02-2007 »
Soz Ollie, I thought it would catch out the specialists in the group, indeed I expect  most folk here are specialist. I'm lucky, I'm rather old


I've had an entrant already so the form works  Cheesy
Logged
richard barrett
Guest
« Reply #42 on: 20:02:22, 19-02-2007 »
Oliver, I fear that it may be you and I who are obscure rather than the music... it began so well for me, the first three were completely unproblematic, and then things began to go badly wrong apart from a fleeting return of my tattered self-esteem at the end.

Good work, John W.
Logged
oliver sudden
Admin/Moderator Group
*****
Posts: 6411
« Reply #43 on: 20:03:49, 19-02-2007 »
I know a few straight off and a couple sound, well, familiar. I'll get to it tomorrow evening after I've sent off a couple of almost-late reviews!

You'll wait for me I hope? Wink

Richard, did we go to the same school perhaps?...  Undecided
Logged
John W
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 3644
« Reply #44 on: 20:33:44, 19-02-2007 »
Thanks Ollie and Richard,

I'll let this one run for a while as I don't have to do anything, just wait for entries; much better than that first quiz which needed me to respond every few minutes and was over in an afternoon Cheesy


John W
Logged
Pages: 1 2 [3] 4 5 ... 12
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to: