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  • Richard Tarleton

    #31
    Scarlatti - He Killed For Kicks

    © Private Eye, late 60s, spoofing a populist classical record series

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    • cloughie
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      • Dec 2011
      • 22182

      #32
      Cage - So who needs notes?

      Bruckner - Or maybe like this

      Dukas - Now just stop that

      Ravel - OK a bad riff

      Vivaldi - Phone for all seasons

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      • kernelbogey
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        • Nov 2010
        • 5803

        #33
        Vivaldi - Your call is important

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        • Pianorak
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          • Nov 2010
          • 3128

          #34
          Bax - Do untangle my Tintagel
          My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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          • ahinton
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            • Nov 2010
            • 16123

            #35
            Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
            Alkan - This coat stand's heavy
            Oh, come on - that's based on pure myth! (as is #29); Ronald's myth, peut-être...

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            • ahinton
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              • Nov 2010
              • 16123

              #36
              Originally posted by Caliban View Post


              Chausson: These brakes feel funny
              He spoke too soon.

              Anyway, for a third time...

              Webern: "Don't shoot the composer" (as in "he's dodecaphoning his best").

              Schumann: Not composing but drowning...

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              • kernelbogey
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                • Nov 2010
                • 5803

                #37
                Beethoven - Tonic coming any moment

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                • gradus
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 5622

                  #38
                  Strauss J: The Blue Rhein - nah

                  Strauss R: How Many Veils Pauline?

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                  • kernelbogey
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 5803

                    #39
                    Tchaikowsky - Maybe not that bad

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                    • gradus
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 5622

                      #40
                      Magnard: Get orf my land!

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                      • ahinton
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 16123

                        #41
                        Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
                        Beethoven - Tonic coming any moment
                        Didn't César Franck repeat that one in the quite different context of his Les Djinns?

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                        • vinteuil
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 12936

                          #42
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                          Berlioz : Needs ophicleides. Ophicleides please!

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                          • ahinton
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                            • Nov 2010
                            • 16123

                            #43
                            Bizet: "Royalties? Nah. Gauloises, please!"

                            Schönberg (renouncing his Judaism): "How many disciples, then?"

                            Carter: "Fons juventatis? That's me!" - or maybe "What are years? Dunno!"

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                            • Pianorak
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 3128

                              #44
                              Bridge - A bridge too far?
                              My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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                              • Lat-Literal
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                                • Aug 2015
                                • 6983

                                #45
                                Yepes - Probably didn't compose Romance
                                Sor - Probably didn't compose Romance
                                Llobet - Probably didn't compose Romance
                                Tarrega - Probably didn't compose Romance

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