Questions tagged [music]
A puzzle centered around tunes, melodies, operas, famous song texts, composers, orchestras, and/or musical instruments.
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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🎅
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling StackExchange Advent Calendar 2021. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous DoorNext Door >
Below are 40 ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 7): Don't forget the lyrics!
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling StackExchange Advent Calendar 2021. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door >
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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Four-and-twenty songs baked in a wall
The list of twenty-four songs below can be partitioned. Each partition is of four songs. The six rules of partition membership are related to one another: specifically, they can be thought of in such ...
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Who sang this? It wasn't Carol
I There I Underneath I More Make All
I There And Underneath
I There Santa With I More Make All
I I And Underneath
I To I To
etc.
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Can you remind me who had a hit with this song? It's about ...
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Kicking and screaming (a musical connect wall)
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
In this puzzle, the melodies of 16 songs are given in sheet music form. You first must identify the 16 songs from the melodies. ...
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Riley Reddit - Music Edition
A redditor named u/stanley_tweed posted this request to identify a certain song. I happen to know the song, so I decided it would be nice to make a Riley Riddle out of it.
According to his post:
the ...
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my prefix can turn to sand, my suffix is at hand
my prefix can turn to sand
my suffix is at hand
my infix is a French end
the whole is a famous movie
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The Rock and Roll Connect Wall of Fame
UPDATE: It looks like no takers yet, so let's open this up to any interested solver. Good luck!
A recent Connect Wall I wrote seemed to attract some interest from newer solvers, so I'm putting ...
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Ah, c'est Ray!
For many years, I have been writing to a pen-pal in France. In his latest letter, he said that he had something to give me so we should meet in person. I knew that Laurent dabbled in some composing ...
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Remember the 60s? Far-out man!
Can you convert the following to my unusual currency?
1.25, 1.75, 2.75, 3.25
Having done that, can you explain why some people think the smallest of these is somehow the biggest - at least as far I'm ...
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A ruff awakening
South West of England
Parish Church of St. Barry the Lesser
So moving... as the first notes rise up to fill its vaults, the little village chapel seems to come back to life. For months nobody has ...
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I used to get sung this lullaby and I don't really know why
My name is Beret K. (I think?)
I am normally the one with all the answers, except for right now.
I used to get sung this lullaby and I don't really know why.
Can you help me make sense of what all ...
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What is missing from my aunt's inheritance?
A few days ago my aunt passed away and left her inheritance. I feel like something is missing but I don't know what, she left this music score instead:
I can't read the musical notation: can you help ...
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Song 3 by Mr Physicson
Mr Physicson has been programming some nuclear reactor results filtering program. So, when he returned home tonight, he incorporated a bit of this new knowledge when he was singing to his son:
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Sing me the song of days gone by, sing me the song that made me cry
Sing me the song of days gone by,
sing me the song that made me cry.
The remorse, regret, and pain I'm in,
reflects the memories of what has been.
Hint 1
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I'm singing a song, can you follow along?
What song am I singing?
I apologize for the resolution. If you open the image itself in a new tab you can magnify to get a better look at the words.
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Song 2 by Mr Physicson
Tonight, My Physicson noticed his little son was down with the blues. So, he started singing:
Iteratively provide power to this implement so, as predicted by the
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Song 1 by Mr Physicson
Mr Physicson has a good day in his lab today, so he went back home a bit tired but in joy in the afternoon. His little son wanted him to sing a song, so Mr Physicson gladly started chanting:
A ...
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An awesome but unusual concert
Some times ago, I went to a concert, somewhere south of where I lived.
Security had canines, but those were very unruly and attacked each other.
When setting up my tent, I wanted to use a stone to ...
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The Rime of the Final Girl
This is the second puzzle I have written, and am looking for the title of a song...
While sleeping I heard a knock upon my cabin door;
I sat up, gripped by fear at once,
My body turned to ...
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What am I: Song
Beside the place, where water flows,
Where flora at the surface grows,
Something is there, or is it really?
All I can say, my rhymes are silly
What song am I?
Hint 1:
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I'm Back........!
To: My Mods! (and the community)
Note: The following is a letter enclosing the details of what's going on. It's more for "story" and humor, but does have some information that you might want. To save ...
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Jazz and all that
Across
1/4/9. Isn't Satchmo sad during the final parts of Miles Davis song? (5,5,5)
7. Baron von Richthofen's rank above the king? (3)
10. Assistants have a bit of chlorine added to aqua regia and ...
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Three Tongues of Rock #2
Inspired by my last riddle: Three Tongues of Rock
One is round
He sings of dark art
One with lips
He gently caresses
The third he sings
Of men who wear dresses
This one should be pretty easy. Enjoy.
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Ode to the Emergence of a Hikikomori
Note: Hikikomori is a Japanese term for "reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from society and seek extreme degrees of isolation and confinement. The affected individuals refuse to leave ...
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If you have to ask what the answer is, you'll never know!
A pattern of lows and highs
In groupings of ones, twos, and fives
And when I appear
The masses may cheer
But those in the know roll their eyes
0 + 2 + 1 + 2 - 3 + 0 - 4 + 2
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A Puzzle for You and Mi
Several weeks before final exams were to commence, the enigmatic Dr. Noteworthy issued a challenge to their music theory students.
"Each year, I like to test my senior students with a brain teaser," ...
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