Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

We're not talking about Norman Scott are we?

No, this oboe is made from grenadilla

[mercia]

apologies, I now see that this is Albinoni, whose hoax Adagio I read about, but then abandoned because I was expecting his death to be the hoax for some reason

Around 1740, a collection of Albinoni's violin sonatas was published in France as a posthumous work, and scholars long presumed that meant that Albinoni had died by that time. However it appears he lived on in Venice in obscurity; a record from the parish of San Barnaba indicates Tomaso Albinoni died in Venice in 1751, of diabetes

The famous "Albinoni Adagio in G minor" for violin, strings and organ, the subject of many modern recordings, was actually a musical hoax composed by Remo Giazotto.

He is the first Italian known to employ the oboe as a solo instrument in concerti (c. 1715, in his masterful 12 concerti a cinque, op. 7) and publish such works

[Flay]

Your educational effort is well rewarded, mercs, I give you a grade A Very bold!

Lets have a broadside from you.

[mercia]

OK

a B to connect

papa's amphibian and goodbye, not to mention 28's menuetto



what a god-awful question

[Flay]

what a god-awful question

What can I say?

I can't find any significant link with 28 & menuetto - Mozart's 28th symph has a menuetto but there's not much else written about it.

Newt, toad, frog?

[mercia]

frog?

a composer called "Papa" ?

[Flay]

Bariolage. I've never heard that word before

[Flay]

Bariolage is the repeated alternation between the same note on different strings, usually an open string and the same note fingered on the adjacent lower string. Joseph Haydn used this effect in the minuet of his Symphony No. 28, in the finale of the "Farewell" Symphony, No. 45, and throughout the finale of his String Quartet Op. 50, No. 6. It is the unison bariolage passages that give this quartet its nickname The Frog.



Crikey. Why do we do this?

[mercia]

Bariolage. I've never heard that word before

me neither

[mercia]

Crikey. Why do we do this?

indeed

well done

[Flay]

One C from this: Stop the musical ride, they're not heavy.

A song, an event, and an orchestral piece.

[Northender]

Cavalry (Jona Lewie Stop The Cavalry, Suppe Light Cavalry)?

[Flay]

Cavalry (Jona Lewie Stop The Cavalry, Suppe Light Cavalry)?

got it in one! Well done!

Apologies for late response. Mrs Flay had me breaking up the garden table and chairs. It hurts he to do it, but some of it was getting rotten. Firewood anybody?

Carry on Down the alphabet, Northo

[Flay]

I should add that the event was the Household Cavalry Musical Ride

[Northender]

Which 'D' features in works by John Adams, Lennox Berkeley and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?