Originally posted by Flay
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Something for your nightmares, Calibs xx
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Something for your nightmares, Calibs xx
"...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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How about clavicembalo for harpsichord, and clavicembalista for harpsichordist?Originally posted by Caliban View Post
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Originally posted by Flay View PostHow about clavicembalo for harpsichord, and clavicembalista for harpsichordist? 
Buonanotte a tutti!"...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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Is there any more to get, Flay?
"Clavicembalisticum" covers all the clues?"...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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Originally posted by Caliban View PostIs there any more to get, Flay?
"Clavicembalisticum" covers all the clues?
It wasn't the best of questions (how often have I said that?)
I'll spill he coleslaw and let someone else clear up the mess. Skeletons = harpsichord hence Clavicembalo.
The diabolical work was Il Minuetto diabolico. Suite orchestrale su musica Clavicembalistica - Pier Giuseppe Sandoni. That was stretching things a bit.
Opus Clavicembalisticum, all four or so hours of it.
Sorabji apparently wrote to a friend: "With a wracking head and literally my whole body shaking as with ague I write this and tell you I have just this afternoon finished Clavicembalisticum... The closing 4 pages are so cataclysmic and catastrophic as anything I've ever done. The harmony bites like nitric acid, the counterpoint grinds like the mills of God..." 
Can you Do better, Calibs?Pacta sunt servanda !!!Comment
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I think Flay probably qualifies for AA Link of the Year - I haven't had any idea what it was about - really looking forward to the enlightenment of the Coleslaw!
EDIT _ must have been good I even crashed the Coleslaw!Comment
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Originally posted by Flay View PostThe diabolical work was Il Minuetto diabolico. Suite orchestrale su musica Clavicembalistica - Pier Giuseppe Sandoni. That was stretching things a bit.
Tricky !! I was nowhere near that bit !
Will cogitate upon a D but might not be straight away, complicated day today...
"...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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Roses, Jasmine, a Mountain King and Dolly - what D links them?"...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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Is Dolly - Faure or Parton?Originally posted by Caliban View Post
Is the Mountain King Ibsen or even Grieg?
I haven't a smell of the others yet.
Or can I say it Disney matter?Comment
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Sorry, been in a meeting.Originally posted by cloughie View Post
None of the above, I'm afraid. The 'mountain king' was a deliberate piece of Clougie-style misdirection on my part
"...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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Anything to do with Delibes Flower DuetComment
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A third to do with the Flower Duet, and everything to Do with Delibes!!Originally posted by cloughie 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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Presumably the duet of flowers is Rose and Jasmine.Originally posted by Caliban View PostA third to do with the Flower Duet, and everything to Do with Delibes!!
So is it Roi a dit or Roi s'amuse?
And is the Dolly Coppelia?Comment
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Lakmé 'Flower Duet' is about Rose and Jasmine - yupOriginally posted by cloughie View Post
The Doll is Coppélia - yup
Last element: no. Don't forget the mountain!"...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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Le Roi des Montagnes, a comic opera in 3 actsOriginally posted by Caliban View Post
Edit: pehaps I should say two and a half acts - it was unfinished!Pacta sunt servanda !!!Comment
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