When I was in college I had to take a class we called "Basic Rep".
We learned about famous classical music composers, and each
composer's individual style. It turns out that in many cases, you
can identify Brahms from Beethoven from Mendelssohn just from
listening to their music, much like nowadays you can tell popular
artists apart.
The scariest part of the class was the final. The professor
brought in a bunch of records, and "dropped the needle" onto each
one of them. We listened to a short excerpt and tried to identify
what the piece was, and who the composer was, and why.
Now, I've never been very good with names or specific data like
this. But fortunately, ever since I was little, I had been a big
fan of a book called "A Dictionary of Musical Themes". I still love
that book. If you hear a piece, and want to know what it is, you
transpose the theme into C, and look up the notes in book's index.
It tells you which page to turn to, and you can see the theme
there, notated with all the other themes of the work. It's so cool.
For my Basic Rep final, I xeroxed many of these themes, put them on
flash cards and learned them. Voila, an 'A'!
Guess what! "A Dictionary
Of Musical Themes" is now (more or less) online! Slightly
different, but still great. All you have to do is enter the notes
into the webpage and it will identify the orchestral work for
you!
To solve this puzzle, identify these popular orchestral themes.
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