Musical Games
Created | Updated Dec 11, 2010
This page is in the experimental stage. There may be some suggestions of games to play elsewhere, some actual games to play online here or the whole project may simply fall into disuse. To start things off though ...
Cryptic Clues
Just like crossword ones but with a musical theme and without the whole numbered grid and crossing of words thing! :-D Some clues may be very easy while others are harder. Note that foreign names may have more than one legitimate transliteration into English letters. Note also that just because someone has given an answer to a clue it doesn't necessarily mean they got it right. So if you have a different answer, don't be put off from posting it.
Musical Hangman
This could be played the normal way but with musical terminology and names. Or it could be played with musical themes by guessing the notes (A to G), including any sharp or flat modifier (or even double-sharp and double-flat) but not duration, bar-lines or rests (unless rests turn out to be a worthwhile thing to explicitly include).
One obvious, but not essential (nor even possible for traditional stuff), restriction is that the tune be in its original key. In any case, the notes must form a consistent key to be fair (eg no mixing up G# and Ab). An option for making the game harder would be only showing the first unseen occurance of any guessed note rather than all of them at once.
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Collective Blues
... or any other song form really. It's just that blues probably lends itself particularly well to the piling on of increasingly bizarre lyrics. Everybody sing after me now:"I woke up this morning ..."
The Mystery Of The Missing Middle
The challenge is to identify a well-known melody from a skeletal accompaniment (which isn't the original one, could be surrounding the absentee melody in any fashion and might even be contrapuntal so that it appears to stand as a tune in its own right).