Alphabet associations - I

[amateur51]

Italy?
Iberia?

Italy. And so in relation to England the sense of direction is ...?

[hedgehog]

Percy Bysshe Shelley died in a storm in Italy or do you need a musical connection as well?

[amateur51]

Percy Bysshe Shelley died in a storm in Italy or do you need a musical connection as well?

Correct Percy, hodge!

The answer is the title of a musical piece written under the influence of a holiday in Italy ....?

The composer of the title piece took a section from the piece and fitted it to a poem by Shelley as a song under the title In Moonlight. Later he made several instrumental versions titled "Canto Popolare".

[amateur51]

I shall be off to bed around 22:30

[hedgehog]

I shall be off to bed around 22:30

Sleep tight Ams!

So to fill in, on that one it's the song by Elgar, wiki for the details:


"In Moonlight" is a song with music written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1904 to words from the poem "An Ariette for Music. To a Lady singing to her Accompaniment on the Guitar", by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and published in 1832.

The song is adapted to a central section of Elgar's concert-overture "In the South (Alassio)" where the "Canto Popolare"[1] melody is introduced by a solo viola with a delicate and imaginative accompaniment, which could be likened to Shelley's "...accompaniment on the Guitar."

The first performance of "In the South" was in March 1904. In July that year Elgar made different versions of the "Canto Popolare" section. These were variously for small orchestra, for piano and for various instrumental combinations.

In August 1905 the song was reviewed in the London "Times":

"Sir Edward Elgar is paying one of the penalties of popularity, and the adaptation of a theme from his overture "In the South" to Shelley's words beginning "As the moon's soft splendour" will very likely attain the success which the publishers, Messrs. Novello & Co., appear to anticipate, as they issue it in several keys. The words, as might be expected, have to suffer a good deal of rhythmic modification in order to fit the "canto popolare", but this is hardly likely to stand in the way of the song's success".[2]
The same poem was set by many others including the American composer Amy Beach ("Mrs. H. H. A. Beach"), as her Op. 1 No. 4, with the title "Ariette".

[cloughie]

Sleep tight Ams!

So to fill in, on that one it's the song by Elgar, wiki for the details:


"In Moonlight" is a song with music written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1904 to words from the poem "An Ariette for Music. To a Lady singing to her Accompaniment on the Guitar", by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and published in 1832.

The song is adapted to a central section of Elgar's concert-overture "In the South (Alassio)" where the "Canto Popolare"[1] melody is introduced by a solo viola with a delicate and imaginative accompaniment, which could be likened to Shelley's "...accompaniment on the Guitar."

The first performance of "In the South" was in March 1904. In July that year Elgar made different versions of the "Canto Popolare" section. These were variously for small orchestra, for piano and for various instrumental combinations.

In August 1905 the song was reviewed in the London "Times":

"Sir Edward Elgar is paying one of the penalties of popularity, and the adaptation of a theme from his overture "In the South" to Shelley's words beginning "As the moon's soft splendour" will very likely attain the success which the publishers, Messrs. Novello & Co., appear to anticipate, as they issue it in several keys. The words, as might be expected, have to suffer a good deal of rhythmic modification in order to fit the "canto popolare", but this is hardly likely to stand in the way of the song's success".[2]
The same poem was set by many others including the American composer Amy Beach ("Mrs. H. H. A. Beach"), as her Op. 1 No. 4, with the title "Ariette".

So it's In with one n like a pub with no beer - not like ours tonight which had a good pint of 'Proper Job'.

I guess we're back to Leo Sayer 'Moonlighting'.

[amateur51]

Sleep tight Ams!

So to fill in, on that one it's the song by Elgar, wiki for the details:


"In Moonlight" is a song with music written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1904 to words from the poem "An Ariette for Music. To a Lady singing to her Accompaniment on the Guitar", by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and published in 1832.

The song is adapted to a central section of Elgar's concert-overture "In the South (Alassio)" where the "Canto Popolare"[1] melody is introduced by a solo viola with a delicate and imaginative accompaniment, which could be likened to Shelley's "...accompaniment on the Guitar."

The first performance of "In the South" was in March 1904. In July that year Elgar made different versions of the "Canto Popolare" section. These were variously for small orchestra, for piano and for various instrumental combinations.

In August 1905 the song was reviewed in the London "Times":

"Sir Edward Elgar is paying one of the penalties of popularity, and the adaptation of a theme from his overture "In the South" to Shelley's words beginning "As the moon's soft splendour" will very likely attain the success which the publishers, Messrs. Novello & Co., appear to anticipate, as they issue it in several keys. The words, as might be expected, have to suffer a good deal of rhythmic modification in order to fit the "canto popolare", but this is hardly likely to stand in the way of the song's success".[2]
The same poem was set by many others including the American composer Amy Beach ("Mrs. H. H. A. Beach"), as her Op. 1 No. 4, with the title "Ariette".

Brava hodge!

In the South it is. Leo is Leo Schuster, family friend and dedicatee, and also featured in Enigma Variations. Elgar was clearly bowled over by the Mediterranean atmosphere, apparently he scribbled "wine and spaghetti" over one of the opening pages of the score

Hans is Hans Richter who was due to conduct the premiere but couldn't make it & Elgar had to do the job himself.

Over to you hodge - be smart about it and no J-walking

[cloughie]

Brava hodge!

In the South it is. Leo is Leo Schuster, family friend and dedicatee, and also featured in Enigma Variations. Elgar was clearly bowled over by the Mediterranean atmosphere, apparently he scribbled "wine and spaghetti" over one of the opening pages of the score

Hans is Hans Richter who was due to conduct the premiere but couldn't make it & Elgar had to do the job himself.

Over to you hodge - be smart about it and no J-walking

In the South was more than an overture - perhaps a Spaghetti tone poem!

[hedgehog]

Me?!!!! I thought it was about Italy...........I hadn't, er twigged at all!

It really should be cloughie's. But I don't mind setting a question. hmmmm.....

[hedgehog]

Repeating the hmmmmm, I have a feeling this has been done before, even worse that it might have been me!

But for wanting better: a J to link deception, threepence and a scrapped overture.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"threepennce"?

[hedgehog]

Just so, caught me out there.......

[mercia]

threepence

anything to do with Threepenny Opera ?

[hedgehog]

Yep.

[cloughie]

Yep.

Your specialist subject the b.....ing obvious?