Questions tagged [music]
A puzzle centered around tunes, melodies, operas, famous song texts, composers, orchestras, and/or musical instruments.
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the flute section keeps passing notes
(_ˇ෴ˇ)_⟋ 🎵🎶
(づ🪈◕‿◕ )づ日 ٩(◕‿◕)۶🪈
The band director is tired of the flutes passing notes in class, but he can't tell what the notes say. Here is one of the messages.
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At Last, the Crown
Clues:[contextual images]
[Fanta logo on treble clef]
[Winning slot machine]
Instructions: Name That Sith
_ _ I _ _ _ _ _
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A Seemingly Geographic Riddle
Selçuk, İzmir Province, Turkey.
Bodrum, Muğla Province, Turkey.
Yassıhüyük, Ankara Province, Turkey.
Sart, Manisa Province, Turkey.
???
İzmir, İzmir Province, Turkey.
Atalanti, Phthiotis, Greece.
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A Trivial Pursuit #14 (Entertainment 3/4): Integration by Parts
This is part 14 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end.
1975
FLON ERE INCEL ANY DOT HUE MANC HINGE
2018
2022
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Midnight Omniprescence
Here's some things I kept in my basement for a while.
a scroll
a flower pot
a vase
a bust of a woman's head
a ballerina dress
a blank canvas
Weirdly, these are the only things I can remember.
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A Trivial Pursuit #05 (Science and Nature 1/4): Animal Songs
This is part 5 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end.
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♩♩♩♩♩ G
E G S T H E M A M ♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩
H ♩♩
D A ♩
R ♩♩
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Musical murder mystery
This is a murder mystery set in an alternate reality that involves siblings of two famous musicians. Your job is to toe the line between reality and imagination, and figure out which of the stated ...
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A song in only 100x18 pixels
Below is a very small image (only 100x18 pixels) which represents a song. What song am I looking for?
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This poem is titled Ζ-Gap
The answer is a two-digit number.
Do whatever you want to play
Solution is one step away
Mine for alien harmony
Take some notes you want to declare
Regions you were so unaware
Fundamental is always ...
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Hidden composer
Today I wanted to make a "logo" for a composer. I liked logos with deeper meaning so I had gone ahead and tried this design:
What composer was I trying to make a logo for?
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Why have I stopped listening to my favorite album?
Why have I recently stopped listening to my favorite Smashing Pumpkins album?
JK, I still love it.
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What song goes like this? (not really...)
What? I gave you the main idea.
It it it it it it it
It it it it it it it
It it it it it it it
It it it it it Automation
Robotics
Telecommunications
It it it it it it it
It it it it it it it
It it it ...
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The Music Grunniens V2 [duplicate]
Clues: [music notes]
Instructions: Name That Actor
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Song 4 by Mr Physicson
Years have passed, so the songs mr Physicson sings when at leisurely company with his son are not (neccessarily) nursery songs anymore.
However, he has grown old himself, so cumulatively to his unique ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 21): Color of the Bells
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2022. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door >
A Motley ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 14): Let's decorate the tree!
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If you ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 3): Okay everybody, from the top!
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My brother ...
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The Music Grunniens
Clues:
[Contextual image: music notes, two +1 markings]
Instructions:
Name that actor
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Hollow Be Thy Name
Clues:
11100 0010 10000 0110 00111 00111 00111 00111 01010 00111 00111
y=-7x/17+14
[image of Bob Marley]
Instructions: Name That Deity
_ _ a _ _ _ _
Hint:
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Dry Calculus - Name the Song
Clues:
a=eru
5I 5I
[two contextual images]
Instructions: Name the Song
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Poem coding scientific constants
The following Vogon poem contains various mathematical, scientific and cosmological numbers. There are ten. Can you find them? Credit for partial solutions.
A BTAUJV BTA ALEJM AV EUMJM FAV EATR O
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AutoMayhem - Enigmatic Puzzle
Clues:
[text within symbol] 79(I)
[musical notation with 3 circled areas]
[three blank lines, the third has a # symbol]
325:327=1, 329:331=1, 336:338=1, 341=1, 345=1, 892=1, 894=1, 896=1, 898=1, 900:...
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Togetherness - Enigmatic Puzzle
Clues:
43516 27692 9890 49450 25714 1___ 45494 29670 9890 35604
1___
Instructions: Fill-in the Blank
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Memorable Quotes
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #1: Restricted Title: xkcd 1xxx
Based on the quotes, fill in the person who said them. The answer is a video game character.
____, in public place:
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A musical response
This puzzle is my own creation.
The other day one of my coworkers asked me whether I was up for a challenge. I said sure, so he handed me a piece of paper.
"Find the response that's hidden in ...
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Three people sit down for a meal in France, who is the time traveller?
As the time traveller and the two others sit down at a table to eat and drink, they discuss who they are (but without giving their names). Then one of the three says, "We are all..." And ...
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Grade School Puzzle
Arithmetic
47 + 28 = ?
107 + 92 + 25 - 7 + 53 = ?
6 + 1 + 53 = ?
26 + 92 = ?
16 + 92 + 53 = ?
22 + 68 + 88 = ?
23 + 85 + 52 + 7 = ?
74 + 85 + 68 = ?
Reading
Ehad fo ocrn
Eredantl estfor malmam
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Wordle Pictionary Puzzle 2
This was inspired by some < ahem> sub-optimal guessing strategy < / ahem > by one of my Stand-up comedian friends. The basic concept is the solver must guess a multi-word phrase using a ...
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The Pairs and the Puzzlers' Comeback Tour
"Have you heard? Your cover band, The Pairs and the Puzzlers, is having a comeback tour without you because you 'always spoil the mood!' They'll be playing these thirteen songs (given in ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 9): 🎄Christmas songs in emoji🎅
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Below are 40 ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 7): Don't forget the lyrics!
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In the ...
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Music in Symbols
All songs can be written as a series of symbols referencing their changes in tone. I will be using a variation of the Parsons Code. Specifically, the first note of each song is denoted as "$*$&...
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A new charity hit single
There's a new charity hit single coming soon! 59 musical artists from the worlds of rap, hip-hop, pop, rock, musical theatre and country music have been working on a unique collaboration, performing a ...
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The soundtrack to my life; track four
I'm looking for a song, but I can't remember the words. I partially remember the lyrics to a few songs that played around it on my mixtape growing up, but that's about it. Can you help me?
Gardens, ...
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I've got a fever
Can you help me find my medicine?
The correct answer contains audible media, Bruce.
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When will I see my friend?
My friend and I both sing in the choir of our local episcopal church, but our choir director is really strict. He doesn't like people talking much. At our last rehearsal, right at the end of a break, ...
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Op. 5 Cacophony in C
The whole gang's here... except for one. Who's missing?
https://soundcloud.com/nordus-rex/op-5-cacophony-in-c
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Answer to the question: "Who Wins?"
Crié ala caleverti
miku'ilatmo
doci
pramilerfu
Hint:
Non-Youtube description of video contents (for accessibility/posterity purposes):
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Here's the song, now tell me the title!
You ever have it happen where you know how a song goes, but you forget its title? I've heard you guys are good at figuring stuff out for free, so I'll just drop some notes here
and let you guys do ...
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Endless party… famous last words
Twelve of the clues are missing song titles, all different from one another, substituted by boldface question marks, one question mark per word. Each missing song was, as a single, in the top ten in ...
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God Only Knows The Answer
Can you identfy the song lyric hinted at here? Read from left to right, from the top.
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The wellerman's lost treasure puzzle
You are hunting for the lost treasure of the Weller brothers, hidden in a pirate cave somewhere - when you finally find the treasure however, it's locked behind a door at the back of a room in the ...
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A Puzzling Playlist
My friend loves puzzles, and one day I walked into her room while she was listening to music. I asked what she was listening to, and she listed off the albums in her playlist:
Accustomed to Nothing - ...
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This ᴀɴᴅ That musical act from the past [closed]
Below is a fill-in-the-blanks three-part list
of variously-venerable musical acts of the form
“________ ᴀɴᴅ ʜɪs/ᴏᴜʀ/ᴛʜᴇ _________.”
The example of
“Paul Revere ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ Raiders”
has been filled in for ...
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Which piano piece is played here?
The picture shows a typical pattern of a piano piece.
Which piano piece is played here?
Hint1:
Hint2:
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Banding Together
Here is a band-themed cryptic crossword, but instead of the answers being themed, the clues are! Each clue contains the name of (at least) one band, and while this resulted in some... wilder clues (...
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A High-Quality Puzzle
Taking a break from cryptic-clues/crosswords puzzles, this simple puzzle has a couple of firsts for me. Given the following songs from video games, find the name of someone who's a fan of anagrams.
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