Alphabet Associations - II

[LeMartinPecheur]

Or Rollin’ Stones or Sonny Rollins and definitely Linda Ronstadt but also love Ravel and Rachmaninov.
Is there a Rondo or Rhapsody around?

Sorry cloughie, you sneaked that in while I was busy on my helpful(?) last! Rondo is indeed the R. Now you just need 3 particular titles

[cloughie]

Sorry cloughie, you sneaked that in while I was busy my helpful(?) last! Rondo is indeed the R. Now you just need 3 particular titles

Capriccioso
A la turk

[LMcD]

Capriccioso
A la turk

My brain is starting to hurt. I'm afraid I still don't see the significance of the 'smallest English music dictionary' - but then I only got a 'Desmond'
I think I'll stand aside and let the Cornish Mafia sort this one out!

[LeMartinPecheur]

Capriccioso
A la turk

Now you're in the right ballpark! 'Capriccioso' is certainly close for 'over-imaginative' but not quite on the button, while 'a la Turk' has the right number of words and syllables for one of the others. And if you were trying to sneak in Turkish as the language, you need to come a bit west.

[LMcD]

Now you're in the right ballpark! 'Capriccioso' is certainly close for 'over-imaginative' but not quite on the button, while 'a la Turk' has the right number of words and syllables for one of the others. And if you were trying to sneak in Turkish as the language, you need to come a bit west.

If you and cloughie come a bit west, won't you end up in the Atlantic!
Congratulations (?) on the most impenetrable AA II problem since ... ever?

[LeMartinPecheur]

I'm afraid I still don't see the significance of the 'smallest English music dictionary'

LMcD: I was simply(?) trying to give a steer to the R-word as a very common musical term. Reckon you've been thinking I was being far more obscure and cryptic than was really the case

Please do now help cloughie - he's made the breakthrough!

[LeMartinPecheur]

If you and cloughie come a bit west, won't you end up in the Atlantic!

Nah, simply west from Turk.

[cloughie]

Nah, simply west from Turk.

Is rondo in the pieces’ titles or are they part of a work?

I’ve moved west from Turkey and found a Bulgarian Rondo by Anatoliy Vapirov

[LeMartinPecheur]

Is rondo in the pieces’ titles or are they part of a work?

I’ve moved west from Turkey and found a Bulgarian Rondo by Anatoliy Vapirov

All the answers are work-titles not movements, and I'm not fussy about precise languages. You're getting closer with Bulgaria, keep coming west(ish). Never heard of Mr Vapirov or his no doubt estimable rondo - my composers and works are far more mainstream. Yes, really!

EDIT Yeh well, on further consideration one of the works is a bit obscure, but by a very mainstream composer. And oddly enough, his language was most of the time 'not at all like Sanskrit'

[cloughie]

All the answers are work-titles not movements, and I'm not fussy about precise languages. You're getting closer with Bulgaria, keep coming west(ish). Never heard of Mr Vapirov or his no doubt estimable rondo - my composers and works are far more mainstream. Yes, really!

EDIT Yeh well, on further consideration one of the works is a bit obscure, but by a very mainstream composer. And oddly enough, his language was most of the time 'not at all like Sanskrit'

As my knowledge of Sanskrit is nil, that helps nil!

[cloughie]

Zoltan Kodaly Hungarian Rondo

[LMcD]

Zoltan Kodaly Hungarian Rondo

Would that be the over-imaginative Hungarian Rondo, the oscillatory Hungarian Rondo or the not-at-all-like-Sanskrit Hungarian Rondo?
That's just my way of saying that, much as I would like to, I can't see myself riding to your rescue ....
(Will I understand the answers any more than I understood the question?)

[cloughie]

Would that be the over-imaginative Hungarian Rondo, the oscillatory Hungarian Rondo or the not-at-all-like-Sanskrit Hungarian Rondo?
That's just my way of saying that, much as I would like to, I can't see myself riding to your rescue ....
(Will I understand the answers any more than I understood the question?)

I’d be happy if it was any of them!

[LeMartinPecheur]

As my knowledge of Sanskrit is nil, that helps nil!

You don't need to know it. Hungarian is one of just three W European languages that isn't related to Sanskrit and, hurrah, you've already got that in your #3476, well done!

But as per my EDIT in #3474, one of the other two languages should actually steer you quickly towards another composer. Just have a Google on the subject of European languages in general and their connection, or non-connection, to Sanskrit. PIE (but definitely not PASTY in this case) could be a shortcut

[cloughie]

Sibelius:Rondo of the waves - I guess the oscillatory one!

This thread is infuriating but very educational!