A mere 7/14, overwhelmingly based on rhythm as my ability to conjure pitches in my head is very wobbly indeed.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 6 December 2019 04:45 (four years ago) link
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)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 6 December 2019 05:29 (four years ago) link
(i.e. if this were style alone I'd get like 0)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 6 December 2019 05:44 (four years ago) link
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, 6 December 2019 13:23 (four years ago) link
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
― mark s, Friday, 6 December 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link
If they had put the part with the high C in the quiz, it would have definitely been more recognizable.
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 6 December 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
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)
― mark s, Friday, 6 December 2019 13:48 (four years ago) link
11 for me :)
― Jeff W, Friday, 6 December 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
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.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Friday, 6 December 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, December 6, 2019 8:23 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I had never even heard of that piece.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 6 December 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
7, but roughly half of those were pure guesses.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 6 December 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
dude, it's gorgeous (and repetitive, but gorgeous nonetheless):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3v9unphfi0
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
(every time I've done it, I've been in the quartet)
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
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)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 7 December 2019 08:31 (four years ago) link