If you’re currently playing through Volume One of Mother of Frankenstein and looking for a bit of help, you’ve come to the right place. If you’re not playing yet, then get the heck out of here before you spoil things for yourself.
Volume 1
You’re trying to order the 12 songs listed on the Sight-reading chart by carrying out the three exercises. Start with Exercise 1. It’s basically a sudoku with musical fragments. Use Mary’s music notes to learn how to read music (if you don’t know how already) and count up one of the fully completed lines.
All the lines need to add up to 5 beats. The four options you have to fill in the four blanks are made up of ½ beat, 1 beat, 1½ beats, and 2 beats. Each column/row/quadrant/major diagonal will have one from each of those four categories. Enter the four given fragments into the chart so that everything adds up correctly.
The four fragments you placed in the chart are only present in one song each. Figure out which song has each of the four fragments. Then, whatever number is shown in the upper right of that square (i.e. "Song 2") is where that song goes in the final order.
This is like exercise one, but you only have rhythms now, and you have keys listed. See the rhythm shown in the upper-right corner of the chart, where B flat meets A? Well it turns out that that rhythm is ONLY in the songs on the Sight-reading chart that are in the keys of B flat and A!
That is correct. Here ya go!:
Marie de la Lune
Honeysuckle Love
The Boys of the Old Brigade
My Love Has Sailed Away
Alas, Poor Jonah
Hymn in the Key of F
The Death of Revolution
I Came Upon a Wounded Stag
The solutions to Exercise 1 eliminate half of your options for Exercise 2.
True. Thankfully, Mary had some conversations on just these subjects with Percy Shelley (in the love letters).
Percy and Mary agree on which two themes are the most artistically valuable, but they disagree on the order. Mary then weighs in on Bach vs. Mozart. Remember, you're looking for Mary's opinion, not Percy's.
The four remaining songs each relate to one of the four themes that Mary and Percy are discussing - religion, nature, love, and politics.
Now you have to associate each song with one of the symbols on the ring pieces. Look to the titles.
Then we recommend you copy the solution you'll find inside the Music envelope and move on to another assignment. Remember, no one is timing or scoring you. The goal is to have fun! If this puzzle isn't your cup of tea, move on!
You need to find some way to arrange these poems.
Okay. Each poem specifically mentions a month. The one by Dante is a little tricky.
Not exactly. Remember, Mary was corresponding with a famous poet.
True. The poems that Percy wrote in his letters are a little trickier. The months are there, but they’ve been broken up.
The months come at the end of lines: sept-ember, jewel-eye, fib-rue-wary, and no-(V)-em-brrr.
Now you have to associate each poem with one of the symbols on the ring pieces. Read each poem carefully.
Then we recommend you copy the solution you'll find inside the Poetry envelope (or here) and move on to another assignment. Remember, no one is timing or scoring you. The goal is to have fun! If this puzzle isn't your cup of tea, move on!
You need to put the love letters in order so you can use Mary's notations.
If you read them carefully, you should be able to work out the story of Mary and Percy's courtship. Put the letters in chronological order.
Absolutely!
“What an unexpected pleasure...”
“I was so pleased to receive...”
“I must admit your letter...”
“It took everything in my power...”
“I was out writing...”
“Thank you for our walk...”
“Mere beauty...”
“I must ask that you never again...”
“As you requested, I have not...”
“Meet me tonight...”
“What transpired between us...”
“I believe Claire must know...”
“We cannot go on like this...”
“I apologize for the tear stains...”
“The ship leaves for Dover...”
Start with Mary's letter and proceed through the 15 love letters, using the first two clues (with the image of the spinning ring; clockwise/counter clockwise doesn't matter) to orient the three rings. Remember, the Zodiac ring never moves. When you're finished with those first two clues, the symbols from clue one should be "touching" from ring to ring AND the symbols from clue two should ALSO be touching (again, remember the Zodiac ring never moves, so you should only have been spinning the outer two rings).
At that point, you'll use the NEXT two clues (with the image of the ribbon) to tie a ribbon between the two segments in the Zodiac ring that correspond to the two images in question (i.e. the images won't usually be ON the Zodiac ring, so you're connecting the segment that is part of the same vertical "slice" with the symbol in question).
You'll then repeat this same process three more times. In other words, your clues will always go "orient a ring," "orient a ring," "tie a ribbon" "tie a ribbon." You should end up with four tied ribbons.
Spin the rings so that LION aligns with SCORPIO (keeping ARIES on the innermost brown ring aligned with the top of the puzzle).
Spin the rings so that WHALE aligns with ROSE (keeping the alignment of the previous riddle and keeping ARIES on the innermost brown ring aligned with the top of the puzzle).
Tie a ribbon from the brown ring piece aligned with SWORD to the same aligned with RECORDER (musical instrument)."
Spin the rings so that LION aligns with LEO (keeping ARIES on the innermost brown ring aligned with the top of the puzzle).
Spin the rings so that HEART aligns with DEER/hart (keeping the alignment of the previous riddle and keeping ARIES on the innermost brown ring aligned with the top of the puzzle).
Tie a ribbon from the brown ring piece aligned with SOLDIER to the same aligned with JESTER CAP.
Spin the rings so that SHIP aligns with TAURUS (keeping ARIES on the innermost brown ring aligned with the top of the puzzle).
Spin the rings so that MOON aligns with WEDDING RINGS (keeping the alignment of the previous riddle and keeping ARIES on the innermost brown ring aligned with the top of the puzzle).
Tie a ribbon from the brown ring piece aligned with BEAR to the same aligned with BEE.
Spin the rings so that SOLDIES aligns with ARIES (keeping ARIES on the innermost brown ring aligned with the top of the puzzle).
Spin the rings so that FLY aligns with BEE (keeping the alignment of the previous riddle and keeping ARIES on the innermost brown ring aligned with the top of the puzzle).
Tie a ribbon from the brown ring piece aligned with WHALE to the same aligned with SHELL.
Look inside the quadrilateral formed by the ribbons. Therein is your code.
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