Klarinet Archive - Posting 000369.txt from 1996/04

From: niethamer@-----.BITNET
Subj: Re: Orals
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 23:08:58 -0400

Jacqueline Eastwood wrote:

> I also got "score identification" -- what a treat. If you can't name
> the piece (which I think I managed to get one, and it was a fluke!),
> then you have to make educated guesses on period, composer, or something
> and then explain why you came up with that answer.

My favorite score ID story was related by a Juilliard prof. Given a vocal
score with orchestral accompaniment, and text in Russian, the candidate
strung along his identification to include Moussorgsky, and the "Russian
Five", and managed to correctly place the music harmonically in the
Romantic Era.

The music in question was a famous aria from "La Traviata" in a Russian
translation!!

David Niethamer

(whose only "oral" exam is by his dentist!)