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  • Quarky
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    • Dec 2010
    • 2672

    Originally posted by mercia View Post
    wiki says that Marios Varvoglis (1934) and Henri Sauget (1940) wrote incidental music to The Persians [not relevant I think]
    It's early music, mercia - I hope I don't get into trouble with my early's and ancient's!

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    • Flay
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 5795

      Originally posted by Oddball View Post
      It's early music, mercia - I hope I don't get into trouble with my early's and ancient's!
      Or your apostrophes
      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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      • mercia
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        Originally posted by Oddball View Post
        whether any more clues are required before I go?
        perhaps the nationality and century of this composer of a choral lament inspired by Aeschylus's The Persians (Persae ? )

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26574

          Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
          Hedgehogs are tenacious


          An essential attribute in this particular corridor of the Forum!
          "...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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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26574

            Originally posted by Flay View Post
            I have been exploring the Persian wars this morning.
            To Mrs Flay's unconcealed delight, no doubt!
            "...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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            • Flay
              Full Member
              • Mar 2007
              • 5795

              Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon's Xerxes (1714) was only performed once..

              Lully wrote Ballet de Xerxès (1660)
              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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              • Flay
                Full Member
                • Mar 2007
                • 5795

                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                To Mrs Flay's unconcealed delight, no doubt!
                She has gone shopping and thinks I am out walking the dogs
                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                • Flay
                  Full Member
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 5795

                  Gosh, Crébillon had a miserable time:

                  In 1707 Crébillon had married a penniless girl, who died leaving him two young children. His father had also died, insolvent. In three years at court he had gained nothing and aroused considerable envy. Oppressed with melancholy, he moved to a garret, where he surrounded himself with dogs, cats and birds, which he had befriended; he became utterly careless of cleanliness or food, and sought comfort only in smoking.
                  Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    Originally posted by Flay View Post
                    Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon's Xerxes (1714) was only performed once..

                    Lully wrote Ballet de Xerxès (1660)
                    they both sound very good
                    I don't think we mind how many times they were performed, do we ? this isn't the flop, is it ?

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                    • Flay
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 5795

                      I'm not sure if we are dealing with a flop, or a lament, or a lamentable flop. I'm lost.
                      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                      • mercia
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8920

                        Originally posted by Oddball View Post
                        I thought hedgehog was on the brink of cracking it: Has someone set just this part of the play? An English composer?
                        oh, English

                        not (Purcell) Dido's lament surely ? that's a different story isn't it (he said, not having a clue) - oops, no that's Virgil

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                        • Quarky
                          Full Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 2672

                          Go back a bit mercia- a queen or two.

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                          • hedgehog

                            Well if it's a play set to music and early English it might be a masque, but I still draw a blank. Some deep (all at) sea trawling has dredged up one Colley Cibber who wrote a play Xerxes which had a lot of music in it (and it was a flop).

                            How about Arne's Artaxerxes as in "son of Xerxes" ?

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                            • mercia
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 8920

                              Richard Farrant ??

                              I give up

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26574

                                Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                                Colley Cibber who wrote a play Xerxes which had a lot of music in it (and it was a flop).

                                How about Arne's Artaxerxes as in "son of Xerxes" ?
                                Sounds good... Has Oddball rolled off (his little green light's still on...)
                                "...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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