Significa #20

ANSWERS

1. Who is the pair of horn players to be heard on most old 78s with the Vienna Philharmonic Wind Ensemble ?

   Gottfried von Freiberg & Leopold Kainz.

2. Who are the two hornists that had recorded the Sigfried Horn Call before 1920 ?

   Emil Wipperich & Anton Horner.

3. Generally, can a tuning slide be put in it's receiver backwards? If it can, how do you know if it is?

   The Scribe Mark

4. If Barry Benjamin (aka Da Bear) had a symphony composed for him by, say, Haydn, what number would it be? Also, what key would it (he) be in?

   82 in C Major.

5. As everyone on the list surely knows, Alois Hába was known to have been the first to introduce new difficulties into the "civilized" musical performance medium. What was special about his music and demands upon the wind players? Also, do you think that a common American expression (vernacular) of "extreme bother or difficulty" is in any way derived from the name of his 1931 Opera (or is it only half of a common expression of disgust)? (Part 2 is not scored as it is subjective)

   1/4 tone and 1/6 tone music. Initially, special instruments were made

   "Die Mutter" was his opera (The Mother)

6. What is the name, and the composer, of the famous work (blazing horn parts) that is programmatic of the domestic life of a father, mother and child? It was first performed in New York 3/21/1904.

   (Ed. This was definitely not MY family life put to music!)

   R Strauss
   Domestic Symphony (Symphonia Domestica)

7. Here's one for the frustrated non-participants of Significa out there who would participate, if they just had an even chance of getting something correct.

   Is it true or false that the first portion of the "Tragic Symphony" is the same as what is commonly known as the "Tragic Overture?"

   False

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