Are questions on pop music legit. for University Challenge?

[Richard Tarleton]

No music questions in the final - given Hindemith fighting a duel in 1704, probably just as well . Still, a great final.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

No music questions in the final - given Hindemith fighting a duel in 1704, probably just as well . Still, a great final.

(and Jean-Luc Goddard confused with Jaques Tati - well, we've all done that! )

The "Pop"-type questions seem to have been confined to the opening rounds - none at all in the semis.

[seabright]

The students are probably better off with popular music questions as most of them struggle with classical music ...

They didn't do too badly with three of the four Stokowski recordings they had to identify in last year's series ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-8Izrk5QcA

[Richard Tarleton]

Some interesting analysis in today's Times. Monkman v. Goldman - that thought had not occurred to me. Each captain won 50 points in starter questions - Monkman actually answered 7 starters correctly, but was docked 20 points for four incorrect interruptions. Of 46 team champions, 27 have been from Oxbridge with 10 Cambridge and now 17 Oxford champions.

[MrGongGong]

No music questions in the final - given Hindemith fighting a duel in 1704, probably just as well . Still, a great final.

Very disappointing that given the level of complexity of some of the questions they weren't asked anything about the pitch ratios in The Well Tuned Piano or about the music of Harry Partch, Pauline Oliveros or Sofia Gubaidulina

[Richard Barrett]

they weren't asked anything about the pitch ratios in The Well Tuned Piano

Well, nobody apart from LMY knew what those were for many years.

[Bryn]

Well, nobody apart from LMY knew what those were for many years.

Surely pitch perfect Autoharp, one time of this parish, would have worked them out for himself.

[Nick Armstrong]

No music questions in the final - given Hindemith fighting a duel in 1704, probably just as well

Yes, the otherwise impressive young Goldman let himself down with that one. I know it's our 'specialist subject' (wrong quiz I know!), and I didn't know it was Handel - but as TwoGongs says, given the level of complexity and broad range of esoteric subjects of which he (among others) seems to be master, it's odd that a basic chronology of classical music is such a lacuna. It's like thinking Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett were contemporaries.

[vinteuil]

It's like thinking Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett were contemporaries.

... ah, but for us Borgesians, they are.



[ ... boat race and Univ: Chall: - brawn and brains, eh? ... ]

[MrGongGong]

Well, nobody apart from LMY knew what those were for many years.

[Serial_Apologist]

Well, nobody apart from LMY knew what those were for many years.

Lemmy?? From Motorhead???

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... ah, but for us Borgesians, they are.

[Richard Barrett]

Lemmy?? From Motorhead???

Yes, well-known for his explorations of microtonality, though some uncharitable souls would claim that it was unintentional.

[Richard Tarleton]

Y it's odd that a basic chronology of classical music is such a lacuna. It's like thinking Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett were contemporaries.

And the level of ornithological and botanical knowledge tends to suggest few contestants get out much. I cycled out to Wytham Woods every Sunday in termtime for two years - though I have to say I never once saw a murdered corpse there (I picked up a 50p copy of Colin Dexter's The Way Through the Woods the other day - Wytham and Blenheim ) .

[Nick Armstrong]

... ah, but for us Borgesians, they are.



[ ... boat race and Univ: Chall: - brawn and brains, eh? ... ]