Alphabet associations - I

Collapse
This topic is closed.
X
This is a sticky topic.
X
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
  • Lateralthinking1

    I thought Debussy. I don't know the full answer but he was obsessed by Spring. Did he write 34 letters to a mentee?

    No I think I've got that wrong!

    Comment

    • Norfolk Born

      Not Spring, I'm afraid. No piano works are involved, but one does involve singing.
      Last edited by Guest; 24-01-12, 14:28.

      Comment

      • mercia
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 8920

        quite tricky finding out who wrote 34 of anything (besides Rossini's thirty-four operas, which I think are irrelevant)

        Comment

        • Norfolk Born

          The third element is the twelfth of thirty-four numbers (in the musical sense) of a work which involves plenty of singing but is not an opera.
          You might also like to think about pieces that are sometimes published six at a time....
          Last edited by Guest; 24-01-12, 15:04.

          Comment

          • subcontrabass
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 2780

            Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
            The third element is the twelfth of thirty-four numbers (in the musical sense) of a work which involves plenty of singing but is not an opera.
            You might also like to think about pieces that are sometimes published six at a time....
            The second and third elements lead to "Sunrise", but I cannot get the first one yet.

            Comment

            • Norfolk Born

              'Sunrise' is correct: the 'Sunrise' Quartet Op. 76 no. 4 and the description of the sunrise in 'The Creation'.
              The first element is actually the first of four of the sixth of one hundred and four...

              Comment

              • subcontrabass
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 2780

                Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                'Sunrise' is correct: the 'Sunrise' Quartet Op. 76 no. 4 and the description of the sunrise in 'The Creation'.
                The first element is actually the first of four of the sixth of one hundred and four...
                Haydn Symphony No 6 ('Le Matin') is usually described as the first of a set of three symphonies. The first movement (which is what I assume you are referring to) is specifically seen as depicting sunrise.

                Comment

                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26540

                  Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                  the first of four of the sixth of one hundred and four...

                  Now you're just being silly

                  "...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..."

                  Comment

                  • Norfolk Born

                    Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                    Haydn Symphony No 6 ('Le Matin') is usually described as the first of a set of three symphonies. The first movement (which is what I assume you are referring to) is specifically seen as depicting sunrise.
                    Full house, scb! Over to you for a 'T'.

                    (The first of the four movements of Haydn's Symphony No. 6 depicts the sunrise, as does the first movement of the fourth of the six Opus 76 quartets - but the name applies to the whole work - as does the twelfth number in 'The Creation')

                    Comment

                    • subcontrabass
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 2780

                      This T went round in the eighteenth century, visited Italy in the nineteenth century, and went round again in the twentieth century.

                      Comment

                      • rubbernecker

                        Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                        This T went round in the eighteenth century, visited Italy in the nineteenth century, and went round again in the twentieth century.
                        That's shut everyone up.

                        May I proffer a trio of Turners?

                        William - a baroque composer and singer
                        JMW - the painter
                        Charles - a composer, also involved in espionage, who managed to infiltrate Hitler's inner circle at Bayreuth?

                        Comment

                        • subcontrabass
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 2780

                          Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                          That's shut everyone up.

                          May I proffer a trio of Turners?

                          William - a baroque composer and singer
                          JMW - the painter
                          Charles - a composer, also involved in espionage, who managed to infiltrate Hitler's inner circle at Bayreuth?
                          I am not looking for a person's name. Think about what "goes round" musically.

                          Comment

                          • rubbernecker

                            Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                            I am not looking for a person's name. Think about what "goes round" musically.
                            Wot, you mean like a canon?

                            Comment

                            • subcontrabass
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 2780

                              Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                              Wot, you mean like a canon?
                              No.

                              Comment

                              • vinteuil
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 12846

                                Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                                Wot, you mean like a canon?
                                ... or a rondo

                                Comment

                                Working...
                                X