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Daenerys Targaryen
Daenerys Targaryen
Bibliophile

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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Bela Talbot III
Bela Talbot III
Con Artist

Jun-20-2013 06:52

I've known who she was from yesterday, when I decided to test my googling skills :) But, you know, if anybody can guess usig their memory (which I really haven't got much of :), I'll wait :) Also, I REALLY don't want to have to be the person giving out the clues...I know I'll be awful at it, especially since I have no idea who to even think of :) I'll probably pull out some random name I saw in the papers, somebody I know absolutely *nothing* about...that ought to yield some pretty interesting clues ;)


Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Jun-20-2013 18:27

Mahalia Jackson? Or did I just add Michael Jackson's last name to the right Christian name lol. oops if so...

Daenerys Targaryen
Daenerys Targaryen
Bibliophile

Jun-21-2013 03:19

Or perhaps it is Michael Jackson with the wrong Christian name :D.
Yes, of course it's Mahalia Jackson! Congrats, Squirrel, you're on :).

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

Jun-21-2013 19:53

Oh I have to have a go... stay tuned.

Secret_Squirrel
Secret_Squirrel
Safety Officer

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 :)

Daenerys Targaryen
Daenerys Targaryen
Bibliophile

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.

Lady Emerald Devon
Lady Emerald Devon
Nomad

Jun-22-2013 09:55

I have no idea about any of them Lady D, though your knowlege is impressive as ever :)

Bela Talbot III
Bela Talbot III
Con Artist

Jun-22-2013 10:26

Young folk, young folk, coming through...

Hmm. Hmm... *face going blank*

Young folk, young folk, on my way out :)

Bela Talbot III
Bela Talbot III
Con Artist

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...

Cordelia Falco
Cordelia Falco
Battered Shoe

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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