{"id":922,"date":"2020-06-03T23:23:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T23:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=922"},"modified":"2025-06-16T10:50:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:50:30","slug":"quiz-number-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/quiz-number-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiz Number 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These quiz questions were originally posted in facebook with a very short clip as a clue &#8211; so here I will post the clues before the teaserbreak. The task is to identify the composer and the music.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/videos\/wednesday.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Third Question<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container-small\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/videos\/wednesday.mp4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<label class=\"reveal-btn\" style=\"width: 300px;\" for=\"showhide\">Show Me The Music<\/label><br \/>\n<input id=\"showhide\" role=\"button\" type=\"checkbox\" \/>\t <\/p>\n<div id=\"hidden-part\">Had the pleasure of playing this in the presence of the composer in Aldeburgh. I guess some consider this as a bit of a &#8216;novelty&#8217; piece &#8211; but it is brilliantly put together and great fun to play.<\/p>\n<p>Do have to make a confession &#8211; after the fugue when the horns come in with the theme again at the end of the work I always found it impossible to work out (in a sort of mathematical sense) how the notes that the horns had to play fitted to the rhythms that came beforehand &#8211; so I resorted to &#8220;gut feel&#8221; &#8211; there have been a few other pieces of music since that offered similar problems &#8211; but even today nothing quite like the &#8216;unknown&#8217; of that particular entry.<\/p>\n<p>I think it had something to do with the fact that having been rollicking along in 2\/4 the tune returns when the time signature turns to 3\/4 &#8211; or 6\/8 for the horns and some others and there is little chance to figure out how the cross-rhythm duplets fit in the fourth bar.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy it when it comes<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IMGqdUqPnmo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Benjamin Britten : Young Person&#8217;s Guide To The Orchestra<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IMGqdUqPnmo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These quiz questions were originally posted in facebook with a very short clip as a clue &#8211; so here I will post the clues before the teaserbreak. The task is to identify the composer and the music. The Third Question<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[100,106],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-orchestral","tag-romantic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2856,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/2856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}