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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.

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.

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 :)

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.

Jun-29-2013 02:11

Now that's intriguing...

Just to be clear, when you say 'a musical form' do you mean something like a sonata, or a concerto, or an opera? (Only it can't be any of those as they're not fictional).

Is it from a book, a film, a poem, a TV series?

Jun-29-2013 03:13

Yes, I mean something like a sonata or an opera, but this specific form is fictional. It is from a TV series, and I'm sure you know it, Cordy :). To be precise, it's a fictional sub-form of a standard musical form.

Jun-29-2013 07:11

Now this is niggling away at me. There's something at the back of my mind that's refusing to come forward :)

Is it an American TV series? Or British? Would it be classed as science fiction? Fantasy? Supernatural?

Jun-29-2013 07:36

A fictional music form...sounds fascinating! It may turn out to be ordinary, but what I'm thinking up feels great! And it's from a TV series! I should know this, but I bet I'll have missed it :(

Just to be clear, what I'm thinking of now, in a *very* rough way (because I can't really describe it) is something like dragons singing, etc. It's a horrible example, but the only one I can think of to put the colours in my head into words :) I can just see it being called a sub-form of a standard musical form! :D

Jun-29-2013 07:37

Is it instrumental or vocal? If so, human vocal, or...other...vocal? :)

Jun-29-2013 12:13

Yes, it is an American TV series, and it's classified as SF. It's vocal and instrumental, it's not human vocal, but no, it's not a song of dragons :).

Jun-29-2013 15:28

Is it from Game of Thrones?