Its unwieldy title, which translates as "Little Musical Flower Garden and Leipzigish Assortment," suggests its light spirit, as does its peculiar scoring for clarinet and double bass.
For example, the handbook provides "no guidance" about the test's peculiar scoring system, which is quite different from that of ordinary standardized tests, and rewards students who know enough to focus their energies on one part of the test.
In the opening pages of Borodin's Quartet No. 1 in A, they produced a velvety, unified sound that immediately let listeners stop worrying about whether the performance would be jet-lagged and focus on this peculiar but inviting score.
Tennis, as everyone knows, has its own peculiar lingo, with scoring references that range from the most sacred human emotion (love) to a classic New York breakfast (bagel, which involves winning a set, 6-0).
Outside critics of standardized testing agreed with Mr. Tobias yesterday that the flat score was peculiar, and implied a problem with the test itself.
Maybe Dzeko had a point that it was peculiar for Mancini, with the score at 2-0, to replace him.
Woods was in a peculiar position after the worst score of his pro career.
O'Neil it was who opened the scoring with a peculiar goal.
The most ambitious of the program's novelties was Max Bruch's Septet, a student work scored for the peculiar combination of two violins, cello, bass, clarinet, horn and bassoon.
Mozart includes a touch of zaniness of his own in the score, by way of peculiar cadenzalike solos between the statements of the bright ritornello figure.
