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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26527

    OK guys'n'gals... I be home I be, having had the B in my bonnet (aka cycling helmet) all the way home.

    I have lost the capacity to judge if this is easy or difficult:

    A Frenchman wrote one to another Frenchman who'd also written one, as had a Pole, whilst an Italian wrote three.


    What 'B' is it?
    Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 25-11-11, 20:30.
    "...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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    • mercia
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 8920

      I believe these to be Berceuses by respectively

      Ravel (sur le nom de)
      Faure, opus 16, for violin & piano
      Chopin and
      Busoni, opus 2, elegiaque, and a lullaby

      apologies for lack of accents

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26527

        Originally posted by mercia View Post
        I believe these to be Berceuses by respectively

        Ravel (sur le nom de)
        Faure, opus 16, for violin & piano
        Chopin and
        Busoni, opus 2, elegiaque, and a lullaby

        apologies for lack of accents
        Bravo bravo mercia!!!

        Correct in each and every particular

        i'm afraid there is no getting out of the 'C' !

        "...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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        • mercia
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8920

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          no getting out of the 'C' !
          quite so


          a C to connect

          part of a literary republic, an opus 26, a musical birthday party, and a Sullivan operatic collaboration

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          • Flay
            Full Member
            • Mar 2007
            • 5795

            Coxotopia: a fictional country, made up by Dr. Cox in the TV Show Scrubs (according to Wikki).

            Cox & Box - Sullivan and Burnand.

            Am I warm?
            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26527

              Interesting Flay! I never thought I'd see "Scrubs" referenced here!

              I think mercia will be tucked up in bed... there will be an early morning answer I suspect!

              Stumped as to what the 2 remaining Coxes could be though....
              "...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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              • mercia
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 8920

                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                Am I warm?
                I'm afraid not. I should really have given the republic a capital R ............ ancient Greece ....... not musical ..........literary .......... philosophical ......

                the birthday party was an antipodean ensemble
                Last edited by mercia; 26-11-11, 08:26.

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                • Norfolk Born

                  Arthur Sullivan and Edward German: The Caves
                  Fingal's Cave is Mendelssohn's Opus 26.

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                  • mercia
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 8920

                    Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                    Arthur Sullivan and Edward German: The Caves
                    ..... of Carrig-Cleena, aka The Emerald Isle

                    Mendelssohn

                    C = Cave

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                    • Norfolk Born

                      Aha ...Nick Cave and The Birthday Party!

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                      • mercia
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 8920

                        Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                        Aha ...Nick Cave and The Birthday Party!
                        three down, one to go from the King of East Anglia

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                        • Norfolk Born

                          ...and a Platonic allegory?

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                          • mercia
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                            ...and a Platonic allegory?
                            NB very, very good, congratulations

                            The Allegory of the Cave, Plato's Republic

                            I hereby gratefully pass the baton

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                            • amateur51

                              Triffic puzzle, mercia!

                              And bravo Norfs!

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                              • Norfolk Born


                                What 'D' links Kensal Green, a district of Moscow and The Bronx?

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