Extremely annoying pieces of classical music

[mangerton]

... while we're at it, you uncharacteristically omitted to mention both the US and Imperial Russian Navies, mangerton ...

Well, yes, but I didn't want people to think I was boasting too much about our great nation.

ahinton - similarly for raspberries and whisky.

[mangerton]

One of the Bard's greatest:


".... and others, when the bagpipe sings i' th' nose,
Cannot contain their urine." (Merchant of Venice)

Caliban, thanks. That is an excellent quotation. It illustrates exactly what I was going to say to Mr Pee in response to this:

And the Scottish Bagpipes, which renders all their other achievements meaningless. Some crimes should never be forgiven.

The Scottish Bagpipes are best regarded as a weapon of war.

[ahinton]

And the Scottish Bagpipes, which renders all their other achievements meaningless.

How do they do that?

[Serial_Apologist]

Ah, Ronald Stevenson - an uneven composer imv, but well worth hearing for works such as the second piano concerto and Passacaglia on DSCH - not that we ever do on Radio 3.

And while we're at it, how come we never seem to hear any of ahinton's music on Radio 3? He has a very interesting write-up on Wikipedia.

[Mr Pee]

How do they do that?

It was a joke. I'm aware we differ on many things, one of them evidently being our sense of humour......

[ahinton]

It was a joke. I'm aware we differ on many things, one of them evidently being our sense of humour......

And my question was rhetorical. I am unaware of the number of things on which we may differ, but one of them is evidently our understanding and recognition of rhetorical questions...

[ahinton]

Ah, Ronald Stevenson - an uneven composer imv, but well worth hearing for works such as the second piano concerto and Passacaglia on DSCH

Not to mention the violin concerto, Symphonic Elegy for Liszt, Motus Perpetuus? Temporibus Fatalibus and a vast treasury of songs for voice and piano, perhaps most notably the cycles Border Boyhood, The Infernal City and A Child's Garden of Verses.

And while we're at it, how come we never seem to hear any of ahinton's music on Radio 3? He has a very interesting write-up on Wikipedia.

Does he? I've never seen it!

[Serial_Apologist]

Not to mention the violin concerto, Symphonic Elegy for Liszt, Motus Perpetuus? Temporibus Fatalibus and a vast treasury of songs for voice and piano, perhaps most notably the cycles Border Boyhood, The Infernal City and A Child's Garden of Verses.

Does he? I've never seen it!

Apologies - I must have been thinking of your work on Sorabji

[Serial_Apologist]

http://www.sorabji-archive.co.uk/hinton/biography.php

[ahinton]

Apologies - I must have been thinking of your work on Sorabji

Ah, oui, c'est vrai! (are those serial apologies, peut-être?)...

[ahinton]

http://www.sorabji-archive.co.uk/hinton/biography.php

A rather large BBC broadcast is mentioned therein, incidentally (since you were asking about what's heard on Radio 3)...

[Nick Armstrong]

(are those serial apologies, peut-être?)...

Been there, done that gag http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...8127#post78127

[Serial_Apologist]

Ah, oui, c'est vrai! (are those serial apologies, peut-être?)...

Yep

Straight, inverted, retrograde, retrograde-inverted, but carefully pitched, and not extended into other parameters.

[ahinton]

Yep

Straight, inverted, retrograde, retrograde-inverted, but carefully pitched, and not extended into other parameters.

Then I suppose that, in response, I ought to apologise for including several 12-note themes in my work but never treating any of them serially. Ah, well...

[Serial_Apologist]

Then I suppose that, in response, I ought to apologise for including several 12-note themes in my work but never treating any of them serially. Ah, well...

Bartok wouldn't have minded... and Walton, in the finale of his second symphony, used a 12-tone theme, not developed serially. There must be others - can't quite think who, folr the moment.