Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Fairy Nuff. Any takers? Anyone got a dead cert on the GGs who wants to supply the missing Ferracosco details?

Wish I had time, seems like mercia's done all the hard work and the ball is bobbling around the goal mouth waiting for a toe-poke... Can't at the moment, hope to return later this morning, no doubt someone will have poached it by then

[Nick Armstrong]

Two composers; one a spooky Italian, the other English, an excellent friend who moved from heirs to ayres.
WTF?

This is very much a "Mercia Tribute" response.... Sterling nocturnal detective work...

Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder (1543 – 1588) was an Italian composer who may also have been a spy ("spook") for Elizabeth I while he was in Italy.

Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger (ca. 1575 – 1628) born at Greenwich, the illegitimate son of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder.

Not sure about the heirs bit (merely that he was heir to the elder?), but Junior was the dedicatee of this in Ben Jonson's "Book of Ayres"

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

This is very much a "Mercia Tribute" response.... Sterling nocturnal detective work...

Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder (1543 – 1588) was an Italian composer who may also have been a spy ("spook") for Elizabeth I while he was in Italy.

Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger (ca. 1575 – 1628) born at Greenwich, the illegitimate son of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder.

Not sure about the heirs bit (merely that he was heir to the elder?), but Junior was the dedicatee of this in Ben Jonson's "Book of Ayres"

Correct in all particulars, with the minor exception of the "heirs" bit: Jnr was tutor to Prince Henry, the Prince of Wales who would have become King instead of Charles I had he not died so young.

I've only recently discovered the Music of the Ferraboscos (?Ferrabosci?) thanks to a pound well spent helping the aged: jnr is much more interesting than his father.

There is also Alfonso Ferrabosco III - son of jnr, who did a job-share with his brother Henry as a member of the King's Viols.

merc's G is safe in your hands, Cali.

[Nick Armstrong]

the "heirs" bit: Jnr was tutor to Prince Henry, the Prince of Wales who would have become King instead of Charles I had he not died so young

Ah yes.

Onward!

Poetically-speaking, this musical G connects three rivers - two in the UK (one a tributary of the other) and one in France.

[Flay]

two in the UK (one a tributary of the other)

Could these rivers border England/Wales?

[Nick Armstrong]

Could these rivers border England/Wales?

They could

[Anna]

They could

So, in theory, it could be Wye and Severn?

[Nick Armstrong]

So, in theory, it could be Wye and Severn?

In theory. In practice you're half-way there...

[Anna]

In theory. In practice you're half-way there...

The Wye flows into The Severn at Chepstow (gosh, suffering geography lessons all those years at The Academy for Daughters of Distressed Gentlefolks finally paid off!) Apart from that, I can offer nothing. Wordsworth liked the Wye, Housman liked the Severn. Where the musical French river comes in I have no idea.

[Nick Armstrong]

Where the musical French river comes in I have no idea.

Well it flows out into the English Channel, south of the splendidly-named Berck

The Wyes and the wherefores are nothing to the point although the knowledge gleaned by the infant Anna from her Stern Mistresses is impressive!

[cloughie]

Well it flows out into the English Channel, south of the splendidly-named Berck

The Wyes and the wherefores are nothing to the point although the knowledge gleaned by the infant Anna from her Stern Mistresses is impressive!

I won't Usk what it is? or whether Avon is calling!

[Nick Armstrong]

I won't Usk what it is? or whether Avon is calling!

Usk away, it's clear you Avon a clue!!



(Quite proud of that one!)

Seriously, you may have a paddle but you're up the wrong creek.

[cloughie]

Usk away, it's clear you Avon a clue!!



(Quite proud of that one!)

Seriously, you may have a paddle but you're up the wrong creek.

My non-serious enquiry received an equally apt response

[Nick Armstrong]

My non-serious enquiry received an equally apt response

You know I'll never let you down, cloughie!

[cloughie]

They could

But do they?