The A-Z Beethoven Quiz (rules of the game)

[Quijote]

And I won't tell you how often I've had some good looking woman come up to me at the beginning of class giving me a whole bunch of excuses why she hasn't done her homework, turning on the full range of charms and so on ... only for me to say "I told you all at the beginning of the term that all homework not handed in except with accompanying medical certificate will receive a mark of zero."
The usual result is a sudden end to the charm offensive and sulking. Love it.

[Michael]

Flea, The.(Der Floh) Opus 75 No. 3 (from Goethe's Faust)

[Quijote]

Well, a flea in all our ears for that one, Michael! [God, what a wag Quijote is. Not. Ed.]
G = Giocoso (lively, merry, fast ...). Wasn't one of the movements in B's late quartets so marked?

[Quijote]

Come on, come on ... ! [Snapping his fingers] Specifics!! Which quartet, which movement?

[Quijote]

Oh dear, I think I'm beginning to reveal my teaching "dynamics".

[Quijote]

I admit I am just a little impatient in nature...

[Quijote]

H is for ...

[Michael]

Hallelujah Chorus by Handel. Beethoven quotes this in the final movement of his Missa Solemnis.

[Michael]

I. Beethoven had two of them.

(Just joking - ignore it.)

[Roehre]

Hallelujah Chorus by Handel. Beethoven quotes this in the final movement of his Missa Solemnis.

Where? This is new to me.

[Megan]

Impromtu.

Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu



Some aspects of this piece are similar to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, which is also in C-sharp minor. Two measures after the melody begins, an abrupt run up and down has exactly the same notes as the cadenza in movement 3 (Presto agitato) of that work. The climax on a six-four chord is similar in both pieces.[2] Also, Fantaisie-Impromptu's middle part and the second movement of the Moonlight Sonata are in D-flat major. The first and third movements are in C-sharp minor.

[Michael]

Where? This is new to me.

The fugal section of the "Dona Nobis Pacem" quotes part of the Hallelujah Chorus: "For he shall reign forever and ever ...." (Not the words, of course.) I didn't spot it for years!

http://books.google.ie/books?id=d-cp...lemnis&f=false


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[Roehre]

The fugal section of the "Dona Nobis Pacem" quotes part of the Hallelujah Chorus: "For he shall reign forever and ever ...." (Not the words, of course.) I didn't spot it for years!

http://books.google.ie/books?id=d-cp...lemnis&f=false


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I haven't either until now. Many thanks, Michael

[Quijote]

I. Beethoven had two of them.

(Just joking - ignore it.)

Sorry Michael, I just don't see it. Aye!

[Sorrano]

Sorry Michael, I just don't see it. Aye!

The ayes are above the no's.