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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26524

    Originally posted by Anna View Post
    And this will lead us on to Georges Brassens? (That is a consummation devoutly to be wished)
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    "...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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    • vinteuil
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 12798

      ... and for Brassens' les neiges d'antanngg -

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      Georges Brassens, 1953.
      BALLADE DES DAMES DU TEMPS JADIS
      François Villon

      Dictes moy ou, n'en quel pays
      Est Flora la belle Rommaine,
      Archipaida, né Thaïs
      Qui fut sa cousine germaine,
      Écho parlant quand bruyt on maine
      Dessus rivière ou sus estan,
      Qui beaulté ot trop plus qu'humaine.
      Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?
      Qui beaulté ot trop plus qu'humaine.
      Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?

      Ou est la très sage Hélloïs,
      Pour qui fut chastré et puis moyne
      Pierre Esbaillart a Saint Denis?
      Pour son amour ot ceste essoyne.
      Semblablement, ou est royne
      Qui commanda que Buridan
      Fut geté en ung sac en Saine?
      Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?
      Fust geté en ung sac en Saine?
      Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?

      La royne Blanche comme lis
      Qui chantoit a voix de seraine,
      Berte au grand pié, Bietris, Alis
      Haremburgis qui tient le Maine,
      Et Jehanne la bonne Lorraine
      Qu'Englois brûlèrent a Rouan;
      Ou sont ilz, Vierge souveraine?
      Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?
      Ou sont ils, ou Vierge souveraine?
      Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?

      Prince, n'enquérez de sepmaine
      Ou elles sont, ne de cest an,
      Qu'a ce reffrain ne vous remaine:
      Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?
      Qu'a ce reffrain ne vous remaine;
      Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?
      Last edited by vinteuil; 15-11-11, 16:53.

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      • Anna

        Angle has an E. Let us concentrate on that, but could not resist
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        • Angle
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 724

          Not very inspired, too rushed, but here goes:

          E

          A painting from Motherwell
          One from Bottesini for double bass
          Jules with singer, piano and cello wrote one


          One clue is obviously not musical but the other are but the solution might be more poetic.

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          • Norfolk Born

            Elegy
            Motherwell...something to do with the Spanish Republic
            Bottesini and (Jules) Massenet both wrote elegies

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            • Simon

              Don't know about the Motherwell reference, but Elegy fits the others!

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              • Norfolk Born

                Robert Motherwell Elegy to the Spanish Republic (supplementing #9546)
                Last edited by Guest; 15-11-11, 17:11.

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                • Angle
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 724

                  Faster than I thought.
                  Over to Norfolk Born for a flamin' F

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26524



                    Norfy
                    Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 15-11-11, 17:41. Reason: Woeful misattribution of triple bullseye! Apologies!
                    "...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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                    • Norfolk Born

                      What 'F' links: (a) a popular orchestral interlude; (b) the theme tune to a late 1960s female trio; and (c) a precursor to a seasonal oratorio? The trio is not musical.

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                      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                        Gone fishin'
                        • Sep 2011
                        • 30163

                        Are we airborne, Norf, honey?
                        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                        • Norfolk Born

                          We are indeed.....

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            So: Rimsky's Blight of the Fumble Bee?

                            I take it the "seasonal oratorio" isn't Haydn's? The Festive season? Bach?
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • vinteuil
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12798

                              ... or possibly Berlioz

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                              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                                Gone fishin'
                                • Sep 2011
                                • 30163

                                A-ha! I see that Tom Moss wrote a piece for Brass Band called Flight of the Liver Birds: the name of a 1960s - 70s sitcom involving three females (Beryl and Sandra, then when Beryl got married, Carole moved in)!

                                I can't get the Flight precursor to the oratorio. If it is Bach, then "Fugue" means "flight", but why "precursor" to the Oratorio?
                                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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