Alphabet associations - I

[Dave2002]

Is this going to be one of those games where the setter gets another go, and potentially puts us into an endless loop?

[mercia]

the "porter" song is maritime in nature

wild guess - anything to do with Sir Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore?
do we have weavers of a sort in A Midsummer Night's Dream?

[amateur51]

wild guess - anything to do with Sir Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore?
do we have weavers of a sort in A Midsummer Night's Dream?

Bottom's a weaver in AMND

[Anna]

The finch, the sparrow and the lark,
The plain-song cuckoo gray,
Whose note full many a man doth mark,
And dares not answer nay;--

Which has nothing to do with solving this!

[Dave2002]

When are we going to wave a white flag?

[vinteuil]

wild guess - anything to do with Sir Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore?
do we have weavers of a sort in A Midsummer Night's Dream?

Yes! we're getting there...

Sir Joseph Porter - now what was his maritime song??

(Forget A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the way... )

[amateur51]

Yes! we're getting there...

Sir Joseph Porter - now what was his maritime song??

(Forget A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the way... )

The Ruler of the Queen's Navee?

[vinteuil]

The Ruler of the Queen's Navee?

Ruler it is...


Now which (?) Weaver composed something for an ethereal Ruler??

[mercia]

12 inches = Ruler (of the Queen's Navee)

[Dave2002]

Ruler it is...


Now which (?) Weaver composed something for an ethereal Ruler??

Richard?

[vinteuil]

Richard?

no - my "(?) Weaver" needs to be found in a language other than English....

[mercia]

Webern

[vinteuil]

Webern

... give or take an N


Would you like to give us the title and win the prize? or shd it go to Am51??

[mercia]

or shd it go to Am51??

definitely, I'm off on the wrong track again

[Dave2002]

So not Richard Weaver and hymn book, and not Webern,
So muat be Weber and Ruler of the Spirits