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Do re mi
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Daenerys Targaryen
Bibliophile
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Jun-16-2013 06:40
This is a thread about music. All kinds of music: classical, jazz, blues, rock, folk, film music... any kind you can think of. The questions can be about anything related to music: about composers, musicians (performers), styles/periods, musical forms, musical instruments, or about particular pieces or songs.
I'll start with a person.
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Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer
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Jun-21-2013 19:53
Oh I have to have a go... stay tuned.
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Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer
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Jun-22-2013 05:21
OK A Musical Quiz of sorts...
What's in a name?
Which bands / groups changed their names from the following? [rock/pop]
1. The Bangs?
2. Tom and Jerry?
3. The Blue Velvets, then The Visions, then The Golliwogs
4. The Rattlesnakes
These artists changed their names from… [rock /pop]
5. Farrokh Bulsara
6. Enrique Morales
7.Patricia Andrzejewski
8. David Robert Jones
True or false? [Classical]
9. Tchaikovsky believed that his head would fall off, so when conducting an orchestra he would hold his chin with his left hand.
10 Marie Antoinette, was an excellent flautist. (that's someone who plays the flute :p)
11. Wagner married Franz Lizsts's daughter.
12. As a child Mozart was mortally afraid of the trombone.
Have fun :)
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Daenerys Targaryen
Bibliophile
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Jun-22-2013 08:40
Yay, we've got a proper quizz! Not that I have the slightest clue about any of the rock/pop questions, I'll leave them to the young folk, but I'll try answering the classical ones.
9. Never heard of it, so it must be False :)
10. False
She played several keyboard instruments popular at the time, and she was taught the harp by the famous Gluck (she remained his patron for the rest of his life).
11. True
Her name was Cosima and she was one of Liszt's children by countess Marie d'Agoult.
12. False (probably)
He used it in his music which was unusual for his times (trombone was not a standard instrument in an 18th century orchestra) , and there is a beautiful trombone solo in his Requiem.
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Lady Emerald Devon
Nomad
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Jun-22-2013 09:55
I have no idea about any of them Lady D, though your knowlege is impressive as ever :)
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Bela Talbot III
Con Artist
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Jun-22-2013 10:26
Young folk, young folk, coming through...
Hmm. Hmm... *face going blank*
Young folk, young folk, on my way out :)
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Bela Talbot III
Con Artist
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Jun-22-2013 20:58
Those seem like great questions and all, SS, but, the only one I've even remotely heard of is Tom and Jerry...and unless you want different TV show names, I'm useless here. Most other places too...
And what about Enrique Iglesias? All the kids in class are always going *on and on and on* about him...
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Cordelia Falco
Battered Shoe
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Jun-24-2013 02:53
Nice list, SS!
I'm with Daenerys - I have some ideas about the classical stuff but no idea about any of the others.
I do like the theory that Mozart as a child was mortally afraid of trombones, but that as a result his father put him through trombone acceptance therapy and he became so enamoured of them that he started using them in his orchestral arrangements even though they weren't a standard instrument of the time.
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Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer
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Jun-25-2013 02:56
Ok So without further faffing about, here are the answers... makes me pine for the pub quiz days...
What's in a name?
Which bands changed their names from the following? [rock/pop]
1. The Bangs?
The Bangles (*coughs* they had it right the first time...)
2. Tom and Jerry? (prophetic really)
Simon and Garfunkel
3. The Blue Velvets, then The Visions, then The Golliwogs
Creedence Clearwater Revival (I knew the Golliwogs, didn't know the other two)
4. The Rattlesnakes
The Beegees
These artists changed their names from… [rock /pop]
5. Farrokh Bulsara
Freddie Mercury
6. Enrique Morales
Ricky Martin
7.Patricia Andrzejewski
Pat Benitar
8. David Robert Jones
David Bowie
True or false? [Classical]
9 . Tchaikovsky believed that his head would fall off, so when conducting an orchestra he would hold his chin with his left hand.
TRUE... or FALSE. Tchaikovsky is often beaten up as being a bit nuts, but more than likely he probably was just a generic sufferer of anxiety and all it's manifestations. The placing of his hand under his chin when on the rostrum (which he did do) was probably just a nervous habit. But I personally like the idea he really did think his head was going to roll away down the aisle.
10. Marie Antoinette, was an excellent flautist. (that's someone who plays the flute :p)
FALSE. She wasn't bad Harpist though.
11. Wagner married Franz Lizsts's daughter.
TRUE
12. FALSE
Actually as a child Mozart was mortally afraid of the trumpet.
There's also some myth that Mozart was the first composer to use the Trombone in a Symphony, but that's not true either apparently.
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Emily Hill
Well-Connected
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Jun-25-2013 13:17
Kind of feel I should have known the David Bowie one :)
The others I had no idea but was really interesting... especially the Polish sounding name to a country western one!
Yeh, I miss pub quiz too, if you write it, I will answer :)
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Daenerys Targaryen
Bibliophile
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Jun-29-2013 01:48
A new pub quizz, that's GREAT!
How about this: it is a musical form, and it's fictional :D.
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