Alphabet associations - I

[mercia]

I've found a work by Malcolm Williamson (southern hemisphere) called Pas de quatre which is a quintet

"one for four and played by five"

[Flay]

I've found a work by Malcolm Williamson (southern hemisphere) called Pas de quatre which is a quintet

"one for four and played by five"

Booger! I just found it too!

Pas de Quatre(1967), for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and piano

[Nick Armstrong]

I've found a work by Malcolm Williamson (southern hemisphere) called Pas de quatre which is a quintet

"one for four and played by five"

Terribly good, mercs... I was thinking along the lines of 'pas' too... Weill wrote a song called "Je t'aime pas", was my thinking.

But I repeat: are we looking for more than the regulation 'single' linking thing/name?

cf: #1

Basically, you name between 3 and 6 words or short phrases, and ask for the thing that links them together.

...

Where it should be fairly easy, you stick to three initial "clues", but where a bit more help may be needed you add more - up to a max of 6, so it doesn't get cumbersome.

[Flay]

Yes it must be three Ws. Cut Ed some slack, Calibs, he's new on here. We'll get it.

This would have been a good P clue (assuming it is pas)

Anyway I just found a new word: macaronic.

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes it must be three Ws. Cut Ed some slack, Calibs, he's new on here. We'll get it.

Fair enough! Just wondering if we're looking for Wood, Would, Wode... or three totally different names...

Anyway I just found a new word: macaronic.

yes, it's a good one. Macaronic verse is often strangely haunting....

Of one that is so fair and bright, velut maris stella,
Brighter than the day is light, parens et puella:
I cry to thee, thou see to me,
Lady, pray thy Son for me - tam pia,
That I may come to thee, Maria!

All this world was forlorn, Eva peccatrice,
Till our Lord was y-born, de te genetrice.
With ave it went away
Darkest night, and comes the day - salutis
The well springeth out of thee, virtutis.

Lady, flow'r of ev'rything, rosa sine spina,
Thou bare Jesu, Heaven's King, gratia divina:
Of all thou bear'st the prize,
Lady, queen of paradise electa:
Maid mild, mother es effecta, effecta

[mercia]

"of what for strings"

so it would have to be something like pas de ce que ????????

[Nick Armstrong]

"of what for strings"

so it would have to be something like pas de ce que ????????

Or

Pas de quoi.....

Which is what the French say in response to unnecessary thanks - don't mention it...

[mercia]

Or

Pas de quoi.....

Which is what the French say in response to unnecessary thanks - don't mention it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wilson_(composer)

macaronic cheese is a nice comfort food

[Flay]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wilson_(composer)

Booger! You are always just ahead of me, mercs!

Pas De Quoi (1964) Six little dances for strings.

[mercia]

well I have no idea of the last one, and I am now departing ............... from platform 3

[Nick Armstrong]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wilson_(composer)

macaronic cheese is a nice comfort food

Macaronic

If this sounds as though it is connected with Italian pasta, you’re right. It was coined in the sixteenth century by the Italian poet Teofilo Folengo, in reference to a sort of burlesque verse he invented in which Italian words were mixed in with Latin ones for comic effect.
He said that he linked the crude hotch-potch of language in the verse with the homely foodstuff called macaroni, a dish which he described (in Latin, of course) as “pulmentum farina, caseo, botiro compaginatum, grossum, rude, et rusticanum” (“a savoury dish bound together with flour, cheese [and] butter, [a dish] which is fat, coarse, and rustic”).

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-wei1.htm

[Flay]

Kurt Weill - Je ne t'aime pas

Ha ha mercs

[Flay]

So when Dean Martin sang "That's Amore" was he macacrooning?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sorry - I'm lost. Are we looking for three composers each with a different surname beginning with W, but who all wrote works with the same three-letter French word that doesn't begin with W?

[Flay]

Sorry - I'm lost. Are we looking for three composers each with a different surname beginning with W, but who all wrote works with the same three-letter French word that doesn't begin with W?

No need to worry, ferney. It is (hopefully) solved.

The word is pas:

Kurt Weill - Je ne t'aime pas
Thomas Wilson Pas De Quoi
Malcolm Williamson Pas de Quatre

With a little poetic licence from Ed.

I'll say it again, that woulf have made a brilliant P, but I'm not complaining.