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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26574

    Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
    Yes, I'm aware of that somewhat tedious protocol, but I'm unclear whether it's the setter's or the answerer's job...

    I think it's a question of goodwill and discretion, depending on who's feeling more generoso with the informazioni at the time...

    I don't think it's tedious, is it? It merely recognises that others might want to share in the solution, rather than each puzzle becoming an arcane, coded ding-dong, with the setter's and solver's heads rammed up each other's wikipedias
    "...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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    • rubbernecker

      Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
      I must have missed the inauguration of Anna's Law all that time ago. I take it it involves full and frank explication of constituents?
      A sort of intellectual autopsy, yes. For the benefit the more intellectually challenged, it helps explain some of the more obscure interplay and references. Think of it like the R3 morning schedule. User friendly, innit.

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      • rubbernecker

        ..to prevent it becoming in the words of one commentator
        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        an arcane, coded ding-dong, with the setter's and solver's heads rammed up each other's wikipedias

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26574

          Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
          A sort of intellectual autopsy, yes. For the benefit the more intellectually challenged, it helps explain some of the more obscure interplay and references. Think of it like the R3 morning schedule. User friendly, innit.
          I refer the honourable member to my previous answer...

          EDIT: he was on it like a ferret in a trouser shop
          "...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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          • Tapiola
            Full Member
            • Jan 2011
            • 1690

            Thanks guys, I am much the wiser, or at least, better informed

            A very easy E:

            This E has historically been applied to the music of Krenek, Weill and Hindemith, among others.

            EDIT: slight change to question, replacing "linked" with "applied". Sorry, all.

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            • amateur51

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post

              I think it's a question of goodwill and discretion, depending on who's feeling more generoso with the informazioni at the time...

              I don't think it's tedious, is it? It merely recognises that others might want to share in the solution, rather than each puzzle becoming an arcane, coded ding-dong, with the setter's and solver's heads rammed up each other's wikipedias


              To paraphrase Dr McTavish (Patrick Cargill) in The Blood Donor .. "we're not all Ted Moults, y'know!"

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              • amateur51

                Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                ..to prevent it becoming in the words of one commentator
                There's one helluvan echo in here

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                • Tapiola
                  Full Member
                  • Jan 2011
                  • 1690

                  Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                  There's one helluvan echo in here
                  Now, echo would have been a much better answer to a puzzle than the E on offer.

                  However, and as a supplementary clue, the year 1938 is significant.

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                  • amateur51

                    Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                    Thanks guys, I am much the wiser, or at least, better informed

                    A very easy E:

                    This E has historically been applied to the music of Krenek, Weill and Hindemith, among others.
                    EDIT: slight change to question, replacing "linked" with "applied". Sorry, all.
                    Entartete musik?

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                    • Tapiola
                      Full Member
                      • Jan 2011
                      • 1690

                      Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                      Entartete musik?
                      Wunderbar, ammy!

                      The first exhibition organised by the Nazis of so-called degenerate music being in 1938.

                      An F awaits...

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                      • rubbernecker

                        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                        Entartete musik?
                        Is you suggestin' they were all Entartete 'omes, Ammy?

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                        • amateur51

                          Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                          Wunderbar, ammy!

                          The first exhibition organised by the Nazis of so-called degenerate music being in 1938.

                          An F awaits...
                          Blimey, Taps, there's a turn-up! I'll put me finking cap on

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                          • rubbernecker

                            Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
                            Wunderbar, ammy!

                            An F awaits...
                            Oooh, don't encourage 'im!

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                            • Tapiola
                              Full Member
                              • Jan 2011
                              • 1690

                              Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                              Oooh, don't encourage 'im!

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                              • amateur51

                                Culled from the pages of a recent edition of a CD review magazine ...

                                A Venetian composer fathered one composer and choir master son who was Flemish-Belgian and another Flemish-Belgian son who was a violinist and harpsichordist and composer of Lamentations Du Jeudi Saint, and Pièces de Clavecin. What is the family name beginning with F?

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