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It's even worse! I'd muddled Epitaphium with another "E" and thought that completely the wrong composer had written a piece with that title (saved for the future). 'Twas only the Stravinsky I'd got right - and he led me to the other pair.
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Googling synonyms for rooster took me to some shady placesOriginally posted by Caliban View Post 
Then I got myself stuck on Fly Up, My Cock from Five Bird Songs by Paul Crabtree
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If ever there were an example demonstrating the essential use of the comma ...[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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"Spinning" ... it this suggesting an anagram of "rooster"/synonym thereof?
Or would dear old Gretchen be useful?[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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I like that poem Farewell to Arms:
Ralph Knevet (1600–1671)
The helmet now an hive for bees becomes,
And hilts of swords may serve for spiders’ looms;
Sharp pikes may make
Teeth for a rake;
And the keen blade, th’arch enemy of life,
Shall be degraded to a pruning knife.
The rustic spade
Which first was made
For honest agriculture, shall retake
Its primitive employment, and forsake
The rampires steep
And trenches deep.
Tame conies in our brazen guns shall breed,
Or gentle doves their young ones there shall feed.
In musket barrels
Mice shall raise quarrels
For their quarters. The ventriloquious drum,
Like lawyers in vacations, shall be dumb.
Now all recruits,
But those of fruits,
Shall be forgot; and th’unarmed soldier
Shall only boast of what he did whilere,
In chimney’s ends
Among his friends.
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The recording of Farewell to Arms I have (Virgin; Martyn Hill, CLS, Hickox) credits the text (words) to both Ralph Knevet and George Peele!
I was thinking of this too, but see no other g.
My rooster thought took me to Respighi's The Birds, but there we have La Gallina, the hen!Comment
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post ... indeed, reminds one of the double requirement in "I had to help my elder brother, Jack, off his horse"
Sorry folks - been wending my way home via sundry fleshpots and emporia
So where are we....
Yes, GF's Farewell to Arms is relevant to the third G (but not Gloves), but what is an Italian air? Keep 'em Peele'd
Spinning leads to the second element by itself (not the word Gretchen, though she's not a million miles away) and also does hint at the value of finding a synonym for cockerel for the first G..."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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So that's a different Farewell.Originally posted by Caliban View Post
Like the Python Anything Goes
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Did you mean to give us cockerel as the synonym for rooster?
We're not talking Le coq d'or so gold(en) are we?Comment
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Bugger. No I didn't! Let the cockerel out of the bag there, didn't I !Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
Sorry, that spoilt the game rather.
YES - GOLDEN cockerel - by whom, might one ask? (Spot the thematic link with your puzzle, Pulcinella - inspired, I was, inspired)
So two more 'Golden' s please folks.
Farewell to Arms by Finzi is the right source for the third, Flay - don't quite catch your drift, squire... But you should have no trouble now, after my own goal... (Great clip*! "...dressed up as a bag of dainties.." )
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*I'd forgotten how many catchphrases from my schooldays came from that sketch alone!
"He used to make them ... happy in little ways, sir!"
"Bring on the skating vicar!!"
Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 26-02-16, 19:54."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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My Farewell and yours are different poems I think!
But please enjoy the classic Python which includes the rollerskating vicar!
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Well, you've held your hands up, so I'm sure we'd all be happy to let you give us an aitch (a haitch?) as well!
Your 'by whom' makes me wonder if there is something other than by Rimsky K.
Still no idea about the spinning or the Finzi connection.Comment
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Oh you just said all that!Pacta sunt servanda !!!Comment
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Yes and no! Look at the Finzi... ! Your poem is in the piece, but that's not the whole story: there's also an [Italian air... Peele... ] which includes...Originally posted by Flay View Post
And have a czech for things that spin...
Offline for an hour or so now, so take your time! And Pulcinella, that Haitch is yours, so get thinking
You were right about Rimsky - just wanted it spelt out for coleslaw purposes."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Ah! I should have looked in the booklet for the texts.Originally posted by Flay View PostMy Farewell and yours are different poems I think!
But please enjoy the classic Python which includes the rollerskating vicar!
The reason that two names are given is that the piece is made up of two parts.
This is from the booklet....
The Aria (composed 1926--8) sets a sonnet from George Peele's Polyhymnia (1590) and was performed in 1936. During the war Finzi discovered The helmet now by Ralph Knevet, whose similar images made him set it as an apposite Introduction to the Aria. Together they were performed in 1945.Comment
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