All Entries in the "Weeks 1-10" Category
Quiz #10: Like Clockwork
Ladies and gents, quiz lovers one and all…..this week’s winner is Ian Goh who wrote in with To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence, a song cycle by Gerald Finzi composed intermittently between 1921 and 1956. In addition to being now officially awesome at life, Ian has reached into the dark recesses of his [...]
Quiz #10 Clue One
An additional track has been added to the player and here are your clues:
1) The composer was born in the year Queen Victoria died.
2) He trained at Yorkminster Cathedral in England.
3) He was Jewish.
Quiz #10
It’s that time again Quiz Fans!
This week’s prize: confirmation that you are, as you have up until this point only suspected, awesome at life.
Have a listen and send name of piece, composer and date of composition to the OM Mailbox.
Further samples will be posted each day this week until the winner is announced.
Quiz #9: The Day You’ve All Been Waiting For
[Drumroll] The Super Ultimate Winner of OM Quiz #9 is none other than Roger Miller. Unless the intertubes exist in the afterlife, it’s probably not this Roger Miller but nevermind.
Quiz #9: Clue One
Miss Mussel has decided against adding another track this week. She has confidence in your guessing abilities.
Have another listen and consider the following clues:
1) The composer was chronically unlucky in love.
2) He only wrote one string quartet
3) In the year the piece was written, a crash on the NY Stock Exchange started a depression.
Quiz #9
MORNING CAMPERS!!!!!!!
(Apologies for any obnoxiouness in this post. Miss Mussel gave up carbonated beverages of all sorts for Lent and is now flying high courtesy of the Coca-Cola company)
Here’s this week’s quiz. Miss Mussel hasn’t yet decided if she will add other movements for this one. Begging emails will be given some consideration.
Composer, [...]
Quiz #8: In By A Nose
It was a close finish this week but Miss Mussel is proud to announce that Mark Kim has written in with Heinrich Biber Mystery Sonata No. 10 The Crucifixion c. 1676. Hurrah!
There are a great many interesting things about these sonatas and indeed Biber himself. Very thorough liner notes to a recording are [...]
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