Originally posted by mercia
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May I back everyone up for a moment, just logging on. Yes I was thinking Madrigal after the blind / Rodrigo clue... And I get the yum-yum / bun link though would never have known that he (she?) sings a madrigal. But what is the Alp - Madrigal - Transalpina link???"...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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Musica transalpina was a collection of Italian madrigals, mostly by Ferrabosco and Marenzio, fitted with English words. They were well-loved, and several similar anthologies followed immediately after the success of the first. Yonge himself published a second Musica transalpina in 1597, hoping to duplicate the success of the first collection (wikipedia)Originally posted by Caliban View Post
transalpina = across the Alps (I guess)
"madrigal in Act 2"Comment
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Originally posted by mercia View PostMusica transalpina was a collection of Italian madrigals, mostly by Ferrabosco and Marenzio, fitted with English words. They were well-loved, and several similar anthologies followed immediately after the success of the first. Yonge himself published a second Musica transalpina in 1597, hoping to duplicate the success of the first collection (wikipedia)
transalpina = across the Alps (I guess)
"madrigal in Act 2"
Mercia, thanks! I shall - not for the first time - proceed both wiser and better informed!"...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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not sure about that!Originally posted by Caliban View Post
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OK! I'll compromise with "better informed" !Originally posted by mercia View Post
If I may embark on an AA thread tangent, you know that those two expressions arise in one of the better 'legal anecdotes'? It involves the celebrated advocate "F.E." namely F.E. Smith, later Lord Birkenhead.
In one case, F.E. had to go into the complexities of the case at great length, and it went right over the judge's head.
'I have listened to you, Mr. Smith,' said the judge, 'but I am none the wiser.'
'Possibly not, m'Lud,' replied F.E., 'but you are considerably better informed.'
"...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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that just about sums up AA, I would think
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re Musica Transalpina.Originally posted by mercia View PostMusica transalpina was a collection of Italian madrigals, mostly by Ferrabosco and Marenzio, fitted with English words. They were well-loved, and several similar anthologies followed immediately after the success of the first. Yonge himself published a second Musica transalpina in 1597, hoping to duplicate the success of the first collection (wikipedia)
transalpina = across the Alps (I guess)
"madrigal in Act 2"
Exactly. Apparently the manuscripts (were they printed/published?) spread round Northern Europe, and were instrumental (??!) in stimulating the English madrigalists. Actually,I''m not sure that works in the collection did (all) have English words, but they were influential, allegedly.
Re Mikado http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/mikad...era/mk203.html
Re Rodrigo: Concierto madrigal for 2 guitars and orchestra.Last edited by Dave2002; 08-10-11, 16:31.Comment
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From my point of view, I think some others do the same back to me - and perhaps to everyone else.. However, as Caliban remarks, I do end up better informed.Originally posted by mercia View Post
I just don't know how to set simple questions without them being blindingly obvious. I'll try in future.Comment
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Don't know! You could add in Stravinsky too I think. Fascinating to read about Partch and Mazda light bulbs - is that real, or just Wikipedia running wild?Originally posted by antongould View PostComment
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Hugh Grant played Stravinsky?Comment
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Did he? Has he got a Freudian complex?Comment
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Not really but would you like to say the wOrd?Comment
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I was hoping someone else might oblige. I've got stacks of work to do, plus the last Tetbury concert to go to.Comment
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FairenoughskiComment
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Is it me answering again?Originally posted by antongould View Post
I think this may be Oedipus who gave us all a complex, for which I'm sure we're all grateful.
Purcell's incidental music to Dryden & Lee's play. I hadn't realised that "Music for a while" came from this. An oft-programmed piece by countertenors. I have to confess I'd never heard of Harry Partch, he sounds fascinating, I shall get on and read the wiki entry on him. He wrote on opera based on W B Yeats's translation of Sophocles's Oedipus the King. And I'd also never heard of Antonio Sacchini but his Oedipe a Colone was first performed unsuccessfully at Versailles before Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. A second performance never came about because of the "Affair of the Diamond Necklace" which I must read up on. Eventually the opera became very successful and often performed.
so O = Oedipus/Oedipe
so how did you get on at Fenwicks, AG? was that early Christmas shopping?
and why the sudden interest in Hugh Grant? a phone-hacked Chopin, on the blower to Georges.Comment
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