How many classical pieces can you recognize from their scores?

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.

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

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

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

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)

The Elgar was the one I had no idea on

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.

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)

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

got 7 with a few lucky guesses

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

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).

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

haha

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")

i got 7 woo

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.

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

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

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

which yeah not great

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

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)

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

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"

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

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

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)

11 for me :)

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.

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, December 6, 2019 8:23 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I had never even heard of that piece.

7, but roughly half of those were pure guesses.

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

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

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

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)