Alphabet associations - I

[amateur51]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Harrows_Bristle_Board_Bullseye.JPG

Go on... make Anna happy

Well to be honest I just just kept plugging away for Belgian Consorts beginning with R - you'll have to explain, Calibs

[Flay]

I never knew that Django Reinhardt was Belgian. We live and learn as we associate.

<<Reinhardt's nickname "Django" is Romany for "I awake">>

[Nick Armstrong]

Well to be honest I just just kept plugging away for Belgian Consorts beginning with R - you'll have to explain, Calibs

Well plugged

It's simply that 'ricercar' (coming from the Italian for 'to search') is a musical form of which the most famous examples are those 'in 3 voices' and 'in 6 voices' in Bach's 'Musical Offering' - Frescobaldi and Gabrieli also wrote a variety in ricercars in various 'tones'.

Boring, wasn't it?

Please provide a Superior S, ams!!

[amateur51]

Not boring at all, Calibs just I thought you'd explain it better

Now then, I must away to my bed very soon but I'll leave you with ...

S, a poem from Cuba, was orchestrated first for small forces and then for a full orchestra with considerable success by a composer in Mexico and by another in Chile. Later there was a choral setting made by a Canadian composer.

What S is thissss? - ssssnakes beware!

Sssleep well

[Flay]

S, a poem from Cuba, was orchestrated first for small forces and then for a full orchestra with considerable success by a composer in Mexico and by another in Chile. Later there was a choral setting made by a Canadian composer.

What S is thissss? - ssssnakes beware!

Sssleep well

Sensemayá - a poem by the Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, adapted as an orchestral work by the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas.

Guillén's poem evokes a ritual Afro-Caribbean chant performed while killing a snake

[Flay]

A choral setting of "Sensemayá" was written by Canadian composer Sid Robinovitch in 2000.

[cloughie]

Sensemayá - a poem by the Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, adapted as an orchestral work by the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas.

Guillén's poem evokes a ritual Afro-Caribbean chant performed while killing a snake

and by Canadian composer Sid Robinovitch

[cloughie]

and by Canadian composer Sid Robinovitch

chilean composer Horacio Salinas

[Flay]

and by Canadian composer Sid Robinovitch

Sensemayá was set by Chilean Nueva Canción group Inti-Illimani. It was released in 1979 on their album "Canción para matar una culebra".

So now we know. Just loading it on youtube.

I hope my fragments conform to Anna's law

[cloughie]

chilean composer Horacio Salinas

Well done Flay pipped me on the Wiki button!

Looks like T for you!

[Flay]

chilean composer Horacio Salinas

So it was, cloughie. http://www.animateclay.com/index.php...YA+(The+snake)

[Flay]

This might work better: http://vimeo.com/21699418

Sorry to pip you, cloughie. Shall we sleep on it, give mercs a night off?

I enjoyed that sleuthing, ammy

[mercia]

give mercs a night off?

come on, where's the T ? I'm sitting here twiddling my thumbs [well that's what I call it]

only joking.

[Flay]

Poor mercs. I'll end my silence.

A T that is:

A common percussion term, and once much more generally used, and a modern ensemble

[Nick Armstrong]

Poor mercs. I'll end my silence.

A T that is:

A common percussion term, and once much more generally used, and a modern ensemble

Bang on a Can?

Ah. No Ts...

(Morning all. Cor, you've been up for hours! )