Symphonies by score clues - Statistics

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Score Clue Symphony % Correct
The second movement English horn solo was later turned into the spiritual "Goin' Home" Dvorak 9th "From the New World"
92%
The fifth movement "Dream of a Witch's Sabbath" prominently quotes the Dies Irae Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
84%
The third movement prominently features the tune Frère Jacques and klezmer-inspired melodies Mahler 1st
76%
The second movement is a "limping waltz" in 5/4 time and the first movement quotes from Orthodox chant Tchaikovsky 6th "Pathétique"
76%
This Russian symphony is composed in the style of Haydn and contains an extremely short gavotte Prokofiev 1st "Classical"
70%
The second movement allegretto in A minor has a long-short-short-long-long rhythm Beethoven 7th
68%
The fourth movement soprano soloist sings about a child's view of heaven Mahler 4th
68%
The second movement contains a cymbal crash, supposedly at the moment the composer heard of Wagner's death Bruckner 7th
54%
The fourth movement features snap rhythms reminiscent of the title region Mendelssohn 3rd "Scottish"
46%
The fourth movement fugue is based on the note sequence C-D-F-E Mozart 41st "Jupiter"
46%
This one-movement symphony unusually presents all themes in C major while almost constantly changing tempi Sibelius 7th
43%
The fourth movement prominently features a "battle" between two timpanis that change pitch during the passage Nielsen 4th "Inextinguishable"
41%
The first movement opens with an E-flat major hemiola rhythm and the fourth is inspired by a cathedral Schumann 3rd "Rhenish"
38%
The first movement quotes from the William Tell Overture and the fourth features Wagner's "Fate" leitmotif Shostakovich 15th
32%
The opening motif is based on the phrase "Frei aber froh", or "free but happy" Brahms 3rd
30%
The C major first movement opens with an applied dominant chord and is sometimes called a "musical joke" Beethoven 1st
27%
The slow introduction to the first movement opens with a dotted ascending D-A Haydn 104th "London"
22%
The opening motif of the first movement begins with an ascending minor sixth in the strings Shostakovich 5th
22%
Each movement is preceded by the reading of a line of poetry, such as "Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime" Vaughan Williams 7th "Sinfonia Antartica"
19%
One melodic motive prominently features a grupetto while another uses the "gypsy" scale Rachmaninoff 1st
14%
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