Stuck. Silk hankerchiefs, seems women fought over Liszt's discarded ones .... Roman Carnival, too many composers to mention (or, is it related to a dance?), Blind Man's Bluff, Maxwell-Davies and Bizet. Is this another Cornish conundrum? Stuck. Fast.
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sorry, didn't realise anyone was trying to answer it
the handkerchief belongs to a queen
'fraid The Carnival in Rome, The Queen's Lace Handkerchief and Blind Man's Buff all need translating into German
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Originally posted by mercia View Post
There's probably dozens of us, chipping away silently.
I think I had a breakthrough, even before you put your last few words up:
Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15, No. 3 "Hasche-Mann" - the third 'Scene from Childhood' is commonly translated as 'Blind Man's Buff'...
PS Is there a song about silk handkerchiefs? And what about 'Carnaval' re the Roman Carnival??
Anyway I have found what could be the theme song of the AA thread:
R Schumann's "To Anna" (Liebes Mädchen! sahst du nicht)...!!!!
Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 25-11-12, 14:32."...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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a-ha! - that's very interestingOriginally posted by Caliban View Post
not the composer [or the translation] that's on the card unfortunately, but at least it eliminates oneComment
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And one who has just jumped in here for a quick swim - like our Herr Schumann who offered a silk handkerchief (as he had no money in his dressing gown pocket) to the toll collector on a Rhine bridge on 27th February, 1854, just before throwing himself into the "icy torrent," to be hauled out by fishermen.Originally posted by Caliban View Post
There's probably dozens of us, chipping away silently.
I think I had a breakthrough, even before you put your last few words up:
Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15, No. 3 "Hasche-Mann" - the third 'Scene from Childhood' is commonly translated as 'Blind Man's Buff'...
But Flay finds himself all at sea when he views mercia's reply
Pacta sunt servanda !!!Comment
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Originally posted by mercia View Post
Arghghghghghghghghghgh!!!!
"...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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Whoops, I thought it was a cloughie puzzle! Apologies mercia. So, possibly Strauss, not Schumann then? Forgive me if I bow out, I have no German ....Comment
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... sometimes, when I ponder on the denizens of the AA thread I am with Shakespeare -
"O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't! "
And sometimes I am with TS Eliot :
"I had not thought death had undone so many"
[ ... si lunga tratta
di gente, ch' io non averei creduto
che morte tanta n' avesse disfatta."
Inferno III, 55-57. ] ]Comment
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Pacta sunt servanda !!!Comment
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Does that not translate into something like cloth you spit into?Originally posted by Flay View PostWhat a horrible word! Hawkishly onomatopoeic Not sure, also not sure why mercia has given away the answer!!! Thank the Lord Kleenex was invented!
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Originally posted by mercia View Post
"...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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He didn't ! You got it! Come on, Anna! Please make the T !!Originally posted by Anna View Post
"...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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