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[PUZZLE] Need help with a puzzle
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falqwin
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[PUZZLE] Need help with a puzzle

Hey, I'm new to the boards and I have a bit of a problem here.

My friend passworded her blog and challenged my friends and I to solve it.

I've asked her permission to post her clues here - so here goes:

The password is composed of two words:

The first is a name of a piece. (composed by a violinist from the romantic period)

And the second is a musical term in English.

Her blog is at
http://troubledviolinist.blogspot.com

If you do solve it (I've been trying to solve it for six hours with no success) could you please email me discreetly at falqwinSPLATgmail.com with your method and answer. I doubt if she wants the password to be displayed publicly. Wink

*This is NOT an ARG, just one of the few things we do to entertain each other - often with hilarious consequences. She claims it's "bloody easy to hack into."

I beg to disagree - maybe you will too. Hopefully not.

Thanks,
-Sam

(Mods, feel free to move this posts if it's in the wrong place.)

Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:25 am

Phaedra
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Re: [PUZZLE] Need help with a puzzle

falqwin wrote:

The first is a name of a piece. (composed by a violinist from the romantic period)

Well, the Romantic composers who were also violinists that spring to mind are Paganini, Wieniawski, and Sarasate. Maybe Ysaye. Kreisler is more 20th-century, but he definitely composed in the Romantic style, so I suppose he's a possibility, although it would make the clue inaccurate as he was not, strictly-speaking, a composer from the Romantic era. There are other Romantic composers that played the violin, but these are the only ones I can think of that were primarily violinists.

I assume, since this is a password, that the name of the piece is only one word.

I also assume that it's actually a name, and not a generic description-name, like Concerto or Romance, especially since in that case there would be overlap with other composers.

So, the named pieces by the above composers are as follows:

~~Paganini~~

(Wrote only sonatas, concertos, and caprices.)

Wieniawski

Legende
Night
Rozumiem

(His other works are either multiple words, or descriptions like "polonaise," "mazurka," etc.)

Sarasate

R�verie
Confidences
Moscovi�nne
Zigeunerweisen
Bolero
Balada
Mu�eira
Navarra

(The rest are multiple words.)

Ysaye

(IIRC, wrote sonatas.)

Quote:

And the second is a musical term in English.

This seems unhelpfully vague.

"Musical term" could encompass quite a bit, and as far as "in English," well, that's sort of a grey area when it comes to musical terms. Is concerto an English term?

You'll find it even in pretty limited English dictionaries, even though the word is Italian in origin, so I'd say yes, as it's beyond musical jargon and in the common usage. On the other hand, appoggiatura, for example, is definitely musical jargon (i.e. most non-musicians wouldn't know what it means) so I wouldn't call it "English." Rather it's an Italian term musicians use without it actually becoming part of the English language in the same sense "concerto" has.

The next problem is what kind of musical term?

Noun? Verb? Musical direction? Name?

If I were you, I'd ask her for another clue.

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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:47 am

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some ideas:

Paganini - Pastiche

any chance it could just be Sonata or concerto ?

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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:35 pm

falqwin
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Musical Terms

I did pose that question to her - but she claims it should be painfully obvious. ><.

Thanks so much for the list of composers - my music theory is kinda screwed - it'll hopefully make my life easier.

ETA: shifted to http://redhoticedfire.blogspot.com

ETA (again): Part of an online conversation -

Quote:

break my fall; says:
hrm the first alphabet is not a capital letter
[talys] - "who says you have to be sane to be brilliant?" - david sandstrom - [passwords and evil codes] says:
ok.
break my fall; says:
a violinist/composer piece title
break my fall; says:
as well as musical term -
[talys] - "who says you have to be sane to be brilliant?" - david sandstrom - [passwords and evil codes] says:
OY.
[talys] - "who says you have to be sane to be brilliant?" - david sandstrom - [passwords and evil codes] says:
specify the freaking music term.
break my fall; says:
and if you were part of strings you would understand some insider references
[talys] - "who says you have to be sane to be brilliant?" - david sandstrom - [passwords and evil codes] says:
*I AM NOT PART OF STRINGS.*
[talys] - "who says you have to be sane to be brilliant?" - david sandstrom - [passwords and evil codes] says:
first and last letters.
[talys] - "who says you have to be sane to be brilliant?" - david sandstrom - [passwords and evil codes] says:
all i'm asking.
[talys] - "who says you have to be sane to be brilliant?" - david sandstrom - [passwords and evil codes] says:
*and password length*
break my fall; says:
if that's any help;
break my fall; says:
it is in the oxford eng dict
[talys] - "who says you have to be sane to be brilliant?" - david sandstrom - [passwords and evil codes] says:
. . .
break my fall; says:
and if i add password length and whatnot; it'd be entirely TOO easy
[talys] - "who says you have to be sane to be brilliant?" - david sandstrom - [passwords and evil codes] says:
. . .
break my fall; says:
it's not ysaye
break my fall; says:
that's one thing
[talys] - "who says you have to be sane to be brilliant?" - david sandstrom - [passwords and evil codes] says:
ok.
[talys] - "who says you have to be sane to be brilliant?" - david sandstrom - [passwords and evil codes] says:
but is it there?
[talys] - "who says you have to be sane to be brilliant?" - david sandstrom - [passwords and evil codes] says:
or - have I played it?
break my fall; says:
nope
break my fall; says:
as in
break my fall; says:
you have not played it
break my fall; says:
and what do you mean by IS IT THERE.
[talys] - "who says you have to be sane to be brilliant?" - david sandstrom - [passwords and evil codes] says:
in the list.
break my fall; says:
that's for you to find out and for me to know (;

Hrm.

The only piece that I've played is not on this list - and contains multiple words - so that's out of the question.

And Sarasate is out - she doesn't exactly like him, though she did deliver a brilliant (IMHO) rendition of Zigeunerweisen.

The piece is in one word.

ETA (3)

Quote:

break my fall; says:
look; do you have a musical dict
break my fall; says:
the work itself though is hardly known

Hardly known - i.e "you haven't played it, but I have."

Wonder if that helps.

-Sam.

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:14 am

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