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  • doversoul1
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    • Dec 2010
    • 7132

    Kreutzer Sonata

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    • rubbernecker

      Originally posted by OFCACHAP View Post
      Your assumption is correct.
      Thank you for the subtle spelling correction

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      • rubbernecker

        Originally posted by doversoul View Post
        Kreutzer Sonata
        Correct, DS. As it was an easy question, for full marks you will need to explain how the third word of the clue relates to the answer.

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        • doversoul1
          Ex Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 7132

          Oh, I didn’t think. Can I pass the next question to someone else? I jumped in forgetting the rule. I shan’t do it again.

          [ed] Beethoven’s violin sonata dedicating to Kreutzer, which inspired Tolstoy. Janacek gave the title to his string quartet No.1
          Last edited by doversoul1; 27-01-11, 12:16.

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          • rubbernecker

            Originally posted by doversoul View Post
            Oh, I didn’t think. Can I pass the next question to someone else? I jumped in forgetting the rule. I shan’t do it again.
            Hang on, DS! You haven't broken any rules, you can give your reasoning afterwards. I'm just going to be a bit pernickety and and ask for a fourth element in addition to the identification of the three works

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            • doversoul1
              Ex Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 7132

              The rule I had forgotten was that you (I) would have to set the next question (I only like answering questions )

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              • rubbernecker

                Originally posted by doversoul View Post
                The rule I had forgotten was that you (I) would have to set the next question (I only like answering questions )
                Unfortunately it doesn't work like that. You answer, you set. It's a shame you say you don't want to set the next question as we could sure do with some fresh faces around here! I suppose in this case I could release you from your obligation and award it to the person who completes the answer...

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26574

                  Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                  Unfortunately it doesn't work like that. You answer, you set. It's a shame you say you don't want to set the next question as we could sure do with some fresh faces around here! I suppose in this case I could release you from your obligation and award it to the person who completes the answer...
                  As so often when I can complete crosswords that others have largely completed, might the answer lie in the loaded verb 'sounds'...? as in suonare.... hence 'sonata' ... ??
                  "...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

                    Well done, Caliban. But it seems Doversoul has now snitched the baton once again and given us an L

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26574

                      Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                      Well done, Caliban. But it seems Doversoul has now snitched the baton once again and given us an L
                      Yes eyes down for a stageful of countertenors.
                      "...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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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26574

                        Originally posted by doversoul
                        Oh, I do apologise a hundred times for messing things up. Caliban, ignore my L and please go ahead.
                        Not at all, my little afterthought was totally undeserving! Yours looks like a perfectly good question to which I am applying my mind. Very good to have a new brain engaged here.
                        "...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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                        • doversoul1
                          Ex Member
                          • Dec 2010
                          • 7132

                          Back on the track. My apology.

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                          • rubbernecker

                            Doversoul, you now appear to have deleted your L question

                            EDIT: As I recall, Doversoul's question was: what L connects a pope, flourishing art and a stage full of countertenors?
                            Last edited by Guest; 27-01-11, 13:54.

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                            • doversoul1
                              Ex Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 7132

                              I have. I messed the thing up so much that I thought it would be better if Caliban took up the L. Think before you jump indeed…

                              Oh, this time lag!! Yes, that was how my question was.

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26574

                                So, to resume: we are focussing on doversoul's excellent question:
                                What L connects a pope, flourishing art and a stage full of countertenors?
                                Very good question - ungooglable and teasing! I am flummoxed for the moment...
                                "...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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