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Questions tagged [music]

A puzzle centered around tunes, melodies, operas, famous song texts, composers, orchestras, and/or musical instruments.

For puzzles based on, related to, or requiring knowledge of songs, music theory, lyrics, composers, singers, etc.
General music questions are off-topic here, but might be welcomed on either Music Practice & Theory or Music Fans Stack Exchange.

Sample topics include:

  • tunes
  • melodies
  • operas
  • musicals
  • lyrics
  • song and record titles
  • composers
  • orchestras
  • bands
  • musical instruments
  • musical scores

and anything else that can be considered to relate to music.

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Guess the song and artist

\begin{array}{l} &19\times 46=784\\ &56+43=102\\ &360\div 15=29\\ &196-55=114\\ \end{array} Hint 1: For once, this is not an abuse of the equals symbol! Hint 2: The clues are for the song only, the artist follows. Hint 3: $26 + 89 = 115$ Hint 4:…
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An Ancient Egyptian Story

Deep under the sands of Ancient Egypt, a dusty chamber lies undisturbed. It is not a tomb, no - but it tells a story nevertheless. Despite the walls being ruined by time, an inscription is visible on the coarse sandstone walls - one that tells the…
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Mondegreen Jobs

Everyone loves a good mondegreen (or misheard song lyric), but sometimes they make me think that the artist should chuck in singing and take up a different job. The challenge - From this list of artists and alternative jobs, work out what misheard…
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Nicely And Neatly Packaged

On an aimless jaunt downtown, you stumble across an intriguing music store in a less-traveled back alley. Though its shopfront looks a bit grimy and run-down, clearly perceptible in the front window is a neon image of a vinyl LP spinning in an…
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She came back and tried to apologize

After a man broke up with his girlfriend, he hid the details in a song. Now she's come back, this time with a hidden message of her own. hi eVan look i waNna cHAnge tHiNgs between us just mE and you eVan thiNgs may sEem baD but I know yOu and i can…
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Which person am I looking for (music-sheet)

Which person am I looking for?
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What is this object?

originator of yingluck plays this: shush it like a zebra no wait, it wasn't that, it was the oVer one Hint 1: maybe that should be written "shush (it)": the "it" is describing the "shush". Hint 2: It's nothing too complicated, you don't need…
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Deciphering a piece of music

For a puzzle I am trying to solve, I have to find a certain artist which should be derived from a piece of 'music'. The only thing I am given is this image: The other puzzles were all code related, for example transforming pictures of croissants…
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Guess the song and artist (3)

Enough of the maths clues (well partially!) - something more literary: Romulus and Remus; Mowgli. Hint 1: Graphics[{Circle[], Line@# & /@ {{{0, -1}, {0, -3}}, {{-1, -2}, {1, -2}}}}] Hint 2: Previous answer partial answer to this Q. Hint 3: Hint 1…
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Guess the Disney song from the initials number 8

Guess the song from the initials of the lyrics. Y T I A I S A Y B S M P I G I M B S B S I C S I T S O I M H C T B S M T Y D K Y D K
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Guess the Disney song from the initials number 7

OK this on should be easy. I G B A M K S E B W I N S A K O B W Q S L H I G B A M E L N K W B I B U O L D I W O M R T F A R U T O I J C W T B K
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Guess the disney song from the initials number 6

You know what to do. T S G W O T M T N A F T B S A K O I A I L L I T Q T W I H L T S S I C K I I H K I T
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Guess the Disney song from the initials number 5

Try and guess the disney song from the initials of the first verse's letters. I C S W H W A T D H A C W T F I L A H T B L O T D T T Z S C O T T M E A W A T R A D I T A C Y F T L T T P T E B T W F O I P H W A I L T
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Guess the Disney song from the initials number 2

I will give you the initials of the lyrics to the first verse of a disney song and you need to try and guess which song it is. L A T S I I N W Y T M C C W Y T I T G T G W H E L A T T T U H M W C O C H L A H Y T S S G E I G G A G A I G W A W G Y W T…
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Guess the song and artist (2)

$$\lfloor \nabla_{\mu} X_{\nu} + \nabla_{\nu} X_{\mu}\rfloor = 0$$ Hint1: Also a video game.
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