- Hi, I'm Gareth.
- Hi, I'm Alex and welcome to the Music Matters
Christmas quiz.
- And for the quiz, I have written a piece of music
called "Christmas Toccata".
And the quiz is to try and identify the Christmas carols
that you hear within the piece.
So let me tell you that there's going to be one main carol
that keeps coming around, so hopefully you'll get that one.
And then there are seven other carols hidden in the piece.
Some of them a little bit more obviously stated,
some of them rather carefully hidden.
So you'll have to listen carefully to get all of the carols.
But hopefully by the end you'll end up
having identified eight carols.
And if you need to go back and listen to it again,
well of course that's perfectly possible too.
You're also looking for references
to two toccatas because of course,
this piece is entitled "Christmas Toccata".
So which are the two toccatas being used in the piece?
And for an extra Christmas bonus,
if you listen very carefully, there's a very brief reference
to another famous piece of music
that this time is not a piece of organ music.
So see if you can get that one as well.
And let us know how you get on because you'll notice
underneath the video, there's a comment box.
So you can tell us how you got on with spotting the carols
and the other musical references.
So, here we go with
"Christmas Toccata".
(organ music)
Well, I wonder how you got on with that.
And if you haven't quite cracked all of those carols
and musical references, of course you can always rewind,
have another listen, see if you can get the missing ones.
But, if you're ready for the answers to be revealed,
here we go.
Now the main carol that was used, it came as a fugue subject
early on and then it came in the pedal line later on
was "Good King Wenceslas".
And for other carols that we used
during the course of the toccata,
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", "Ding Dong Merrily on High",
"O Come, All Ye Faithful", "Once in Royal David's City",
"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear",
"Unto Us A Boy Is Born",
and finally, "We Wish You a Merry Christmas".
So those were the eight carols.
Now then, what about the two toccatas?
Well first of all we had reference
right at the beginning and a touch at the end
to Bach's famous "Toccata in D Minor".
And then the other famous organ toccata that was present
was Widor's toccata from his "5th Organ Symphony".
And then I mentioned one other little short reference
to another famous piece of music, I wonder if you got that.
That piece of course was "Fur Elise" by Beethoven.
So, hope you enjoyed the Christmas quiz.
I hope you managed to get some or all of those answers.
And all that remains for us to do now
is to wish you a very happy Christmas
and all the best for the new year.
- Merry Christmas. - Bye.