Alphabet Associations - II

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'm looking for an A to associate with
a cipher,

??? Perplexed by this enigma.

a bondsman

? The Wound Dresser (who bound injured soldiers' wounds) by John Adams

and a bunch of supernatural women.

The Wilis in Giselle by Adolphe Adam

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The very same!

Aha! So - they're not all composers?! (Self-modded comment on John Adams )

[Pulcinella]

??? Perplexed by this enigma.

Explained by scb: another sense of the word cipher is 0 (naught/nought/zero).

? The Wound Dresser (who bound injured soldiers' wounds) by John Adams

No, this Adam is bound in another way, and for another reason.

The Wilis in Giselle by Adolphe Adam

Yes.

[Pulcinella]

Aha! So - they're not all composers?! (Self-modded comment on John Adams )

No; see my comment in #2820.
One composer (solved); two with musical connections.

[subcontrabass]

??? Perplexed by this enigma.

The ballet Adam Zero, music by Arthur Bliss?

Still struggling with a bondsman.

[Pulcinella]

The ballet Adam Zero, music by Arthur Bliss?

Still struggling with a bondsman.

Hints given in original question (to begin at the beginning) and later (4000 years).

[subcontrabass]

Hints given in original question (to begin at the beginning) and later (4000 years).

Ahh: Adam lay ybounden ??

[vinteuil]

Still struggling with a bondsman.

... me too. I even wondered -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Adam

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[vinteuil]

Hints given in original question (to begin at the beginning) and later (4000 years).

... good hint - except : if the world was created c 23 October 4004 BC - then it's more like 6021 years...

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[Pulcinella]

Ahh: Adam lay ybounden ??

We've got there!


Just Adam (well, we had Just William, so.....)

Adam Zero (Bliss): zero is one of the meanings of the word cipher
Adam lay y-bounden, bounden in a bond (4000 winters thought he not too long); the original (begin at the beginning)
Adolphe Adam, composer of Giselle, which features the Wilis, both on stage and in its (sub)title.

A bit of a joint effort, but scb got there first, so needs to get busy.

[Pulcinella]

... good hint - except : if the world was created c 23 October 4004 BC - then it's more like 6021 years...

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Yes, but in the carol we have the words: four thousand winters thought he not too long!

[vinteuil]

Yes, but in the carol we have the words: four thousand winters thoight he not too long!

... ta.

Sorry, I was ignorant of the words of the carol


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[subcontrabass]

A bit of a joint effort, but scb got there first, so needs to get busy.

This B might lead to a night at the opera with Turandot and Prometheus.

[Lat-Literal]

This B might lead to a night at the opera with Turandot and Prometheus.

Liszt aside...........

Bantock wrote "Prometheus Unbound".

This is probably as irrelevant to this question as HTML, Ian Fleming and Angels were to the last one.

On balance, even I decided to rule those out.

[subcontrabass]

Liszt aside...........

Bantock wrote "Prometheus Unbound".

This is probably as irrelevant to this question as HTML, Ian Fleming and Angels were to the last one.

On balance, even I decided to rule those out.

You are correct that Bantock is not relevant.