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  • Norfolk Born

    There's the 'Alla Marcia' from the 'Karelia' suite and 'At The Castle Gate' from Pelleas and Melisande. But are we actually looking for a piece that begins with A?

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    • Don Petter

      Originally posted by OFCACHAP View Post
      There's the 'Alla Marcia' from the 'Karelia' suite and 'At The Castle Gate' from Pelleas and Melisande. But are we actually looking for a piece that begins with A?
      Good point. According Simon's circular rule, the three perimeter clues should point to the central 'A', but need not (and probably don't) start with it.

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      • Simon

        Yes, a very good point.

        It was the way the question was phrased that got me along those lines ... "what A links ..." but I accept that this may have been incorrect reasoning on my part. Sorry.

        Ah well .. I suppose that only makes it harder.

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        • Nick Armstrong
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          • Nov 2010
          • 26506

          Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
          According Simon's circular rule, the three perimeter clues should point to the central 'A', but need not (and probably don't) start with it.



          W - w - w - whaaaat???!?!??!
          "...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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          • rubbernecker

            All three links utilise the same A word.

            Simon, you are hot on the scent in #592

            I don't mean 'popular' in the sense of well-known. More in a horticultural sense, perhaps...?

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            • Nick Armstrong
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              • Nov 2010
              • 26506

              Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
              All three links utilise the same A word.

              Simon, you are hot on the scent in #592

              I don't mean 'popular' in the sense of well-known. More in a horticultural sense, perhaps...?

              You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her drink.

              Your clues and hints are causing me to toy with a couple of words, but neither begins with 'A'....
              "...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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              • Don Petter

                DP: Good point. According Simon's circular rule, the three perimeter clues should point to the central 'A', but need not (and probably don't) start with it.

                Originally posted by Caliban View Post



                W - w - w - whaaaat???!?!??!
                Sorry - that must have sounded like the preliminary to Mornington Crescent if you hadn't seen or remembered Simon's request (and he instigated the thread, after all) in M283:

                "Well, whilst we get on with this, perhaps the rules need reiterating, as I think they are important in making the exercise doable by those of a narrower general musical knowledge, like me.

                Please try to think of it like a circle with a central answer in the middle. Around this answer, all pointing inwards, are the "arrows" of the clues, eache linking in some way to the answer. There can be three or more, depending on the question setter's judgement of the need."


                I hope this explains things!

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                • Don Petter

                  Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                  All three links utilise the same A word.

                  Simon, you are hot on the scent in #592

                  I don't mean 'popular' in the sense of well-known. More in a horticultural sense, perhaps...?
                  Ah - So I was right about the possible 'extramural' meaning of popular. (Not that I have found it yet.)

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                  • Don Petter

                    Aspen?

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                    • rubbernecker

                      Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                      Aspen?
                      Pray elucidate?

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                      • Don Petter

                        Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                        Pray elucidate?
                        Still formulating (poncy word for guessing), but there is an Aspen School and/or festival in the States, Cage, Feldman and Cale all had some associations with eachother and might have been connected with it, as might Joshua. Aspen, the tree, is I think a poplar (popular - bad pun?). Can't get Sibelius involved yet though.

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                        • Simon

                          I don't mean 'popular' in the sense of well-known. More in a horticultural sense, perhaps...?
                          Ah, you mean "poplar."

                          Now it's all clear...

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                          • rubbernecker

                            Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                            Still formulating (poncy word for guessing), but there is an Aspen School and/or festival in the States, Cage, Feldman and Cale all had some associations with eachother and might have been connected with it, as might Joshua. Aspen, the tree, is I think a poplar (popular - bad pun?). Can't get Sibelius involved yet though.
                            You've got the right answer but only one out of the three clues. Aspen Summer School of Music and Festival in Colorado, responsible for nurturing (hothousing) young talent such as Joshua Bell. Cage, Cale and Feldman are connected with clue 3. Surprised you haven't connected Sibelius yet...
                            Can anyone complete this?

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                            • Norfolk Born

                              Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
                              Sorry - that must have sounded like the preliminary to Mornington Crescent if you hadn't seen or remembered Simon's request (and he instigated the thread, after all) in M283:

                              "Well, whilst we get on with this, perhaps the rules need reiterating, as I think they are important in making the exercise doable by those of a narrower general musical knowledge, like me.

                              Please try to think of it like a circle with a central answer in the middle. Around this answer, all pointing inwards, are the "arrows" of the clues, eache linking in some way to the answer. There can be three or more, depending on the question setter's judgement of the need."


                              I hope this explains things!
                              Not really. I think I'll wait for the Dummies' Round (assuming there'll be one).

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                              • rubbernecker

                                Originally posted by Simon View Post
                                Ah, you mean "poplar."

                                Now it's all clear...

                                Yes, the genus Populus

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