Quite a bit of working out if you are to get to the ultimate answer of our Boxing Day brain teaser.
First letter
All you have to do is work out the answers of the 17 fairly easy questions below. The first letter of each should eventually give you the name of the 4BR Editor's favourite classic brass band test piece.
You must show your working out of how you got to the eventual name of the test-piece to get your hands on a cracking batch of CDs.
Have fun...
1. The little, not omnipotent, bit of Rolf Rudin's 4BR prize-winning European test piece.
2. Opera by Wagner inspired by the last Tribune of Rome: Later arranged as a National Finals and Area test piece.
3. Metrical psalm tune of uncertain origin — sung to the words 'All people that on earth do dwell'.
4. Tuned percussion instrument — African in origin — low pitched, lower in tone, richer in sound than a xylophone.
5. Welsh festival of music, poetry, dance and literature held every year — full of bards and druids heralded by the trumpet playing principal cornets of Tredegar and Fairey Bands.
6. A major 3rd in a tonic chord at the end of composition in a minor key — most famously 'The Coventry Carol'.
7. Surname of the composer of 'Pageantry' and 'Three Figures'.
8. Brass band instrument originally invented around 1843 by F. Sommer of Weimer — taking its name from the Greek for 'pleasant sounding'.
9. 'A Sailor's Life' — in French. Test piece with fearsome opening for soprano cornet...
10. Musical instrument of sinuous, reptilian shape: Forerunner of the ophicleide in brass bands.
11. The...... subject matter of Eric Ball British Open test piece. Inspired by poet Louis Untermeyer's line 'And, when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied'.
12. Italian word meaning 'nothing'. Often found at the end of reflective compositions.
13. Surname of composer of 'Grimethorpe Aria'.
14. National Finals test-piece inspired by epic Finnish poetry about a Nordic God who rides an eight legged horse called Sleipnir.
15. Name generally given to Schubert's Symphony No 8 in B Minor D759.
16. The.... famous cornet solo named after a bird with the Latin name Luscinia megarhynchos.
17. The first degree of the scale in the Tonic Solfa system and the famous utterance of cartoon character Homer Simpson.
You must show your working out of how you got to the eventual name of the test-piece to get your hands on a cracking batch of CDs4BR
Answers:
E-mail us the answer before midnight on 27th December with your contact telephone details at: quiz@4barsrest.com
Christmas Eve winner:
The answer to our Christmas Even brain teaser of the identity of a leading character in Donizetti's 1835 opera 'Lucia di Lammermoor', the Hollywood home of actress Mae West and a famous Whit Friday march by the great William Rimmer?
It was Ravenswood.
The winner was Jeremy Home, who will be getting a late Christmas prezzie of a selection box of CDs.
Jeremy plays for Friary Guildford Band and has been enjoying a great festive season doing the rounds of carolling.
