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[subcontrabass]

sorry if I misled you.

I guess the book is as much the prizewinner as the author, if you see what I mean

I think SCB may be onto it, given his cryptic enQuiry

Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question (one of 'Two Contemplations')

Moody Blues: A Question of Balance

Howard Jacobson: The Finkler Question

[Nick Armstrong]

Haha!! extraordinary: two simultaneous and completely different sets of answers!

Flay's looks to me a little bit shakier than scb's due to the slightly forced Beatles reference...

Mercia?

[Flay]

Well done, scb. I was on the wrong path yet again. I got to the Ives answer before I noticed your pun, but I was thinking quartet, and drowning...

[mercia]

Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question (one of 'Two Contemplations')

Moody Blues: A Question of Balance

Howard Jacobson: The Finkler Question

well done, a very complete answer

just in the nick of time, my computer is going wrong again, with no-one around to repair it

it's SCB r-r-r-revving up

[Nick Armstrong]

it's SCB r-r-r-revving up

That should keep us guessing till Boxing Day!!

[subcontrabass]

it's SCB r-r-r-revving up

An R to link a Neapolitan, a cow pat, and a chicken coop.

[Flay]

An R a cow pat

<< Elisabeth Lutyens (1906–1983) dealt the composers of Vaughan Williams's generation a temporarily decisive coup de massue by lumping them all together, in a widely reported lecture delivered in the early 1950s, as “the cow-pat school,” with their “folky-wolky modal melodies on the cor anglais.” Vaughan Williams himself fought back by casting aspersions on those who “thought that their own country was not good enough for them and went off in the early stages to become little Germans or little Frenchmen,” apparently forgetting his own studies with Bruch and Ravel. >>

Just thought that was interesting. I cannot find the R yet. Is everyone else mute?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

a chicken coop.

Stravinsky's Renard?

[subcontrabass]

<< Elisabeth Lutyens (1906–1983) dealt the composers of Vaughan Williams's generation a temporarily decisive coup de massue by lumping them all together, in a widely reported lecture delivered in the early 1950s, as “the cow-pat school,” with their “folky-wolky modal melodies on the cor anglais.” Vaughan Williams himself fought back by casting aspersions on those who “thought that their own country was not good enough for them and went off in the early stages to become little Germans or little Frenchmen,” apparently forgetting his own studies with Bruch and Ravel. >>

Just thought that was interesting. I cannot find the R yet. Is everyone else mute?

You have identified the relevant composer.

[Don Petter]

Could it be Ralph (VW)?

Ralph Nader is quoted as saying 'The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns'.

And (after a Google, I admit) there's Ralph's famous Italian Ices - He must surely offer a Nealopitan, as Ron and Eth would say:

http://www.ralphsices.com/

Later:

Oh Dear! Of all the flavours he does, that isn't one. Back to the drawing board.

[subcontrabass]

Could it be Ralph (VW)?

Ralph Nader is quoted as saying 'The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns'.

All links are musical in one way or another.

[Don Petter]

I retire, hurt.

(Not just one cornetto?)

[subcontrabass]

The Neapolitan is a contemporary of Bach and Handel.

What building was described by one musician as "a giant chicken coop"?

[Flay]

Ralph Kirkpatrick made a chronological catalogue of Scarlatti's (a Neapolitan) keyboard sonatas.

[subcontrabass]

Ralph Kirkpatrick made a chronological catalogue of Scarlatti's (a Neapolitan) keyboard sonatas.

Two down, one to go (and that is another clue).