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Grex Enigma Item 160: what does it mean?
Entered by gerund on Tue Mar 15 02:56:52 UTC 1994:

C G A B C A G A F A G E G A B F C D D A F A G E C D A F A G E C C G E G F
D C D A D B G B G F

E and B

8 responses total.

#1 of 8 by kami on Tue Mar 15 05:48:38 1994:

clarify, please.

#2 of 8 by remmers on Tue Mar 15 13:00:34 1994:

The letters are all notes of the scale, so I assume it's a piece of
music.  Maybe the "E and B" part is a key signature, meaning those
notes are to be flatted.  This would make it the key of B flat major
or g minor.  I don't recognize the melody, but it sounds vaguely
like a Bartok Hungarian folk melody.

#3 of 8 by rcurl on Tue Mar 15 13:56:58 1994:

I almost got up to pick it out, but tried to hum it instead. No wonder
I didn't recognize it - who can hum Bartok?

#4 of 8 by gerund on Wed Mar 16 07:50:17 1994:

oh cool you people are good!
Especially you remmers!  Well, I was just doing this as a sort of enigmatic
experiment, so I may have gotten the notes wrong, but the e and b being
flat is right.  However it sure ain't Bartok!!!  Let's see if someone can guess
this.

#5 of 8 by gerund on Wed Mar 16 08:01:40 1994:

ok, i double checked this and i missed a few notes.  it should read like
this:

C G A B C A G A F A G
E G A B F C D
D A F A G E C
D A F A G E C
C G E G F D C D A D B G B G F

E and B


some hints:

this is piano music of early twentieth century.
It is rather well known.
The big problem is that from the info i give you its hard to know if
the note coming after a note is higher or lower than the note it comes
after.

more hints, but not too much:

This musicis classical in nature.
It is not played fast.

#6 of 8 by remmers on Wed Mar 16 19:01:08 1994:

Hmm.  Maybe classical ragtime then.  "Do not play this music fast", as
Scott Joplin used to say.  But so far I don't recognize it.  The way
the music is presented, neither the octave nor the time value of the
notes is indicated.

#7 of 8 by gerund on Wed Mar 16 20:49:25 1994:

not classical ragtime.
let see:

meter: 4/4
time value...... gee You guys make it hard to be enigmatic! :-)
let's try this and see if it helps....

2 3 1/2 1/2 1 1/2 1/2 1 1/2 1/2 4
1 1 1 1 4 2 8
2 3 1/2 1/2 1 1/2 1/2
2 3 1/2 1/2 1 1/2 1/2
2 3 1/2 1/2 1 1/2 1/2 1 1/2 1/2 1 1/2 1/2 2 2


Still cryptic enough, I think, but it should give a clue to timing.

#8 of 8 by jaklumen on Tue May 28 07:04:31 2002:

You give in too easily.  All the better, for I shall be the monster 
that ate Ann Arbor.

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