Questions tagged [music]
A puzzle centered around tunes, melodies, operas, famous song texts, composers, orchestras, and/or musical instruments.
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What sequence of steps do these lyrics encode? [duplicate]
This is a sort of reverse puzzle in that the answer is given, and the question is - what steps are needed to get to the answer?
The MC Frontalot song titled 80085 encodes a series of mathematical ...
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Historical music
A song is represented by the changes you see, before you. What song is it?
(I promise it's not too broad, just take a closer look.)
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What song are these lyrics from?
function me(something){
something++;
}
something != same;
Can you guess the song based on the lyrics above?
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A rocking rebus. Find the song!
What is the meaning of this strange rebus? The solution is the name of a song, and the title may help to narrow the scope just a little further.
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Music themed Cryptic Clues
Continuing a series, here are some cryptic clues which all clue to songs, pieces of music, or composers. Solve them!
Take out middle of set for German (4)
Prelude from the sky? (8)
It's on the piano ...
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Classic Cryptic Cluing
(Guiltless in cent.) when I've taken a chair.
(Absence of all thing) asserting thing there.
(Not any human one) it is true.
(Sure of kw.) a small charge for you.
The answer is a song title. "...
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A Strategy for Sustenance
The following puzzle reveals a song that is probably familiar to a great number of people - though admittedly not everyone. Can you determine it?
All of us happen to be tyred,
We don't really ...
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Happy Music Challenge, Everyone!
With Seven single steps descending
Spirits rise and peer attending.
Return with leap then shuffling tread
While dirt envelops royal head.
Two times the trek from eight to three
By steps of ...
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Don't Misunderstand Me
Many claim my creation
but I'm thousands of years old.
You can meet me when music is played
or during sports activities,
actually you can meet me anywhere.
Some use me to show ...
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The Musing Of the Eggs
The other day, I was working on decorating eggs for the upcoming holiday, and I was humming appropriate music to myself, while I worked. When I was finished, I was very amused to find that I had ...
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What's Jonas trying to hint to me?
(The length of the post is due to the size of the hints. Sorry. If you're just skimming through, the quoteblocks and codeblocks are the hints.)
My buddy Jonas has been hinting me about something for ...
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Musical People Chain
Question: Can you tell who connects image 1 to image 2, who connects image 2 to image 3, who connects image 3 to image 4 and who connects image 4 to image 5?
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Homage To Robert Johnson
This is a revival attempt of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge.
(Well, truthfully, I didn't know about the challenge but the puzzle I thought of this morning coincidentally is music-related so I am ...
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The Recursive Song
This is a revival attempt of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge.
Easter is coming, time to hide some Easter eggs. As you probably know programmers hide them in program code. This type of Easter eggs ...
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Which computer-made song is this?
Which computer-made song is this?
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(And what computer made it?)
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