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  • vinteuil
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    • Nov 2010
    • 12765

    Originally posted by mercia View Post
    from If ...... ?
    ... you'll be a man, my son."

    Where's that other X-chromosome gorn???
    Last edited by vinteuil; 17-01-13, 15:45.

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    • Quarky
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      • Dec 2010
      • 2655

      From a poem - and recently the title of uk films.

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      • mercia
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        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        I'm afraid Going for a song still only makes me think of that ancient TV antiques programme [with Max Robertson ?]

        what does going for a song mean ? inexpensive, a bargain ?

        EDIT - apparently East is East is a Kipling quotation. I think there's only one Gunga Din film (?)

        I'm stabbing wildly in the dark - I shall desist
        Last edited by mercia; 17-01-13, 15:57.

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        • Nick Armstrong
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          • Nov 2010
          • 26511

          Originally posted by mercia View Post
          I'm afraid Going for a song still only makes me think of that ancient TV antiques programme [with Max Robertson ?]
          Oh yes, a favourite at home in my childhood - with Arthur Negus, and the theme music from Respighi's 'The Birds' (I checked - no Xs... ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJf2LyhsqpU
          "...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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          • mercia
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            • Nov 2010
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            • vinteuil
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              • Nov 2010
              • 12765

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              Respighi's 'The Birds' (I checked - no Xs... ) ]
              ... the Respighi quotes from Rameau. Now if he had quoted from Couperin we might have had a chance for our old friend "Les Fastes de la grande et anciénne Mxnxstrxndxsx"

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              • Quarky
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                • Dec 2010
                • 2655

                Originally posted by mercia View Post
                I'm afraid Going for a song still only makes me think of that ancient TV antiques programme [with Max Robertson ?]

                what does going for a song mean ? inexpensive, a bargain ?

                EDIT - apparently East is East is a Kipling quotation. I think there's only one Gunga Din film (?)

                I'm stabbing wildly in the dark - I shall desist
                OK - I have clearly made the clues too oblique - apologies (fools rush in...)

                Going for a song - the composer is fond of writing for the human voice, and gives a clue to the name
                Kipling quotation is confounded - East is East and West is West, and ne'er the twain shall meet
                Unnatural but popular Classical subject for composition - English baroque composition but several compositions in twentieth century by continental composers.

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                • vinteuil
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12765

                  Originally posted by Oddball View Post
                  Kipling quotation is confounded - East is East and West is West, and ne'er the twain shall meet
                  ... as might be by an East West Divan?

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                  • Quarky
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                    • Dec 2010
                    • 2655

                    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                    ... as might be by an East West Divan?

                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West-Ea...ivan_Orchestra
                    More precisely - the subjects of composition might lead one to think of a Western composer, but in fact he originates from the East.

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                    • Nick Armstrong
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26511

                      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                      ... the Respighi quotes from Rameau.
                      It does indeed although the Prelude used for 'Going for a Song' was based on a piece by Bernardo Pasquini as any fule kno



                      "...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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                      • vinteuil
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12765

                        Originally posted by Oddball View Post
                        More precisely - the subjects of composition might lead one to think of a Western composer, but in fact he originates from the East.
                        ... not a Yellow River man, then???

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                        • Quarky
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 2655

                          You're in the right country Vinteuil - China.

                          A composer well known in Europe, but apparently (certainly) not in this country.

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                          • Flay
                            Full Member
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 5795

                            Originally posted by Oddball View Post
                            and gives a clue to the name
                            Hai! Did he like to Xing a Xong?
                            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                            • Quarky
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 2655

                              Originally posted by Flay View Post
                              Hai! Did he like to Xing a Xong?
                              Yes I think that is close enough Flay!
                              "Qu Xiao-song’s music has a crystal clarity and a love which embraces the magic cantilena handed down by Feldman, Takemitsu, Messiaen, Debussy, Chopin, Schubert and Mozart. Qu’s voice speaks softly in a world which has little time to revere silence and beauty. His music is as necessary for our sense of well being as it is for the continuation of the most elevated traditions themselves which he clearly respects."
                              - Roger Woodward

                              Please proceed with "A"!

                              I think I would be wise not to set any more clues for the foreseeable future - I'm a little too far off the beaten track!

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26511

                                Originally posted by Oddball View Post
                                I think I would be wise not to set any more clues for the foreseeable future - I'm a little too far off the beaten track!
                                Au contraire... Please keep your hand in, the line and length will come
                                "...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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