Blogathon Music Quiz #2
Being the perceptive guy I perceive myself to be, I realize that not all of you dissipated your youth wearing out 8-tracks of Hendrix and Zep and GFR. No, some of you dissipated your youth by dwelling endlessly on the nether left-hand regions of the FM dial, or by gingerly mounting upon your belt-drive turntable those vinyl platters extracted from the elegantly stark white covers published by the Orpheus division of The Musical Heritage Society. And why not? At least you could get more than twelve minutes of music before having to flip the album.
[Sidenote: What's the difference between a violin and a viola? The viola takes longer to burn. A wave of the rosin block to pal Shannon over at The Briefing for reminding me of that excellent line from the greatly-missed Victor Borge.]
So, it's in your honor that the Gazette offers its Blogathon Music Quiz #2. This time, the MP3 is a ten second swatch of melody from a well known...ooh, you almost got me there. You tell me...the name of the piece and the composer. The first pledger to correctly identify both in the comments to this post wins another of those muy fabuloso Fire Ant Gazette tile coasters.
That's Agita's Convoluted Symphony in Bmaj7 on Tuesday When the Moon Is Full.
Posted by: Jim at August 6, 2005 01:03 PMI'm surrounded by comedians.
[Is this where I have to issue an apology to comedians?] ;-)
Posted by: Eric at August 6, 2005 01:17 PMBeethoven's 6th - Pastoral?
Posted by: jen at August 6, 2005 01:35 PMOr more precisely, Symphony No. 6 in F major ("Pastoral") Op. 68 by Ludwig von Beethoven.
:wink:
Posted by: jen at August 6, 2005 01:36 PMAnd we've got ANOTHER winnah!
Way to go, Jen! You knew all those years of piano lessons would eventually pay off, didn't you?
Will the Fire Ant Gazette coaster go with your china? ;-)
Posted by: Eric at August 6, 2005 01:38 PMI'll use the coaster for the computer desk, actually. It'll sit next to the CIA mousepad. Thanks!
Posted by: jen at August 6, 2005 02:06 PMJen, it will be an honor to have it reside next to CIA stuff!
Posted by: Eric at August 6, 2005 02:24 PMAbout the publisher
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