The present thread is intended to offer Members the opportunity to rate on a scale from 1 (very good music) to 7 (very bad music) the extracts which continue daily to appear in the competition itself and have or have not been identified. It is clear that some of them possess more intrinsic worth than others is it not?

The object of these ratings is to help to establish what Members think of the repertoire rather than what they know of it. There will be a separate poll for each submitted snatch, wherein each Member will be allowed one vote.

One possible impediment to this investigation is that the links will not stay around for ever; so vote early! Links to extract 1 may be found  here.

Are we rating the music, or the tests?

Are we back to this crap about rating music on a 7-grade scale again? 

Moreover on the basis of a 10-second snippet?

It's like GROUNDHOG DAY, only worse....

I'm not so sure that rating compositions on the basis of 2-60 second snatches is that great an idea, assuming that some members will not necessarily be familiar with the complete work. What I think is interesting is the way that one's interest in a particular piece or composer can be (re)awakened or your view of a particular composer can be challenged in however small a way. This is partly why I posted the Wagner Liebesverbot Overture in Puzzle 11 - it's Wagner, but not Wagner as we know him from Rienzi onwards, sharing much more in common with mid19th Century Italian opera. Even Sydney initially admitted that Puzzle 19 was:
It is, as I've hinted, actually DSCH himself!

I, like several others, found Extract No.1 very beautiful and listened to the complete symphony the other evening. If this competition serves any purpose beyond being a bit of fun, it is in introducing us to compositions we'd hitherto have passed over or forgotten.