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[adagio]

Neat tool, I didn't even know anything like that existed. It would probably be a good tool to narrow down the list of possibilities. I'll have to try it out. I am swamped at work today, but I can take a nother crack at the remaining pieces tonight, if you don't figure them out by then. Good luck!

[joebrent]

#1 is definitely not Kindertotenleider. Finally a puzzle I can really help solve - I'm aawn the mofo. Give me until tomorrow night, I'll try to figure out the rest.

BTW nice work, Bagsbee, on the Elgar, Lalo, and Albinoni. I left a message on a cellist friend of mine's machine about #5, and I have a recording of #1 somewhere, but I have no clue what it is or who wrote it. Sounds like late Strauss to me, could be Mahler, but if it was I'd know it, I've played in everything he's wrote.

[bagsbee]

Other possible matches for #1:

Strauss, Richard: Also sprach Zarathustra 7th theme(a)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai: Kitezh Battle of Kershenetz, 2nd theme

[joebrent]

#5 is Invitation to the Dance by Carl Maria von Weber.

Tricky one - do you use the von or the Weber?

[bagsbee]

[joebrent]

#1 is not Also Sprach. I'm not sure if I trust that UDUD etc online tool. Use it to get some clues, then go to the Amazon listening center or something and actually listen to the piece before posting.

[bakntime]

Darn, man, #1 is driving me nuts. It's beautiful... WHAT IS IT?

[niobexrev]

Here's a cool site you might find some stuff at BBC, where I found "New World Symphony".

Also, for you college students like me, we all know that one professor who knows every single piece of music by only hearing a single chord from it. (actually that's like most of my profs). There's a good referrence.

[bagsbee]

[joebrent]

The best place to reference these classical music clues is here. They have midi and live recordings of almost every piece in the repertoire up until the late 20th century, and they're working on that too.

[bagsbee]

Cool site! I'm not accustomed to finding music on the web...I've been banned from using P2P tools and/or Usenet here at work, it is rather dismaying.

BTW, #2 is by Isaac Albeniz, not "Asturias" which is part of the name of the piece...not that it matters, because it's still "A"

p.s. - sorry if I was snippy in my previous post, it's after 5pm on a friday and I'm still at work, and it's been an UNBELIEVABLY CRAPPY week, work-wise I need to go to the "Things I hate" thread...

[joebrent]

[Dare]

Hi y'all,

Been lurking for a while, having posted once and not helping any... This time I hope I can provide something more substantial...

6.mp3 (according to my musician friend) is Ritual Fire Dance by Manuel de Falla (and I checked against cduniverse.com).

My musician friend also says that all the clips are from the 19th/20th century (also called impressionist music). There are no classical, baroque or romantic compositions. Maybe this is a clue? I've tried classical.html, baroque.html and romantic.html and impressionist.html... to no avail.

Also my musician friend says that 10.mp3 is by Sinding or Ravel, not Debussy.

Hope that helps further the cause somehow!

[bakntime]

Ok, if we simply use the last names of the composers, here's the possibilites for each song, as far as I can gather:

--1.
2. (A) Leyenda for solo guitar - Isaac Albeniz
--3. (L) Cello Concerto in D minor - Lalo
4. (D) Dvoràk - Symphony no.9 'From the New World' 4th movement - Allegro con fuoco
5. (W or V) Invitation to the Dance by Carl Maria von Weber
6. (F) Ritual Fire Dance by Manuel de Falla
7. (G) Piano Concerto in a 3rd mvt. - Grieg
--8. (A) Adagio for organ/strings - Albinoni
9. (S) Zigeunerweisen - Sarasate
--10. (D, S, R) (Debussy's Reverie - Debussy (Singing?, Ravel?)
11. (S) Danse macabre - Saint-Saens

So, here's what we've got, with letters that are unconfirmed with an *

(_) (A) (L*) (D) (W/V) (F) (G) (A*) (S) (D/S/R) (S)

Here's what appears to be confirmed so far:

[bakntime]

FOUND IT:

http://dina.thenekodas.com/balladsoffrogs.html