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  • subcontrabass
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    • Nov 2010
    • 2780

    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post

    Your turn for an E, if anyone else is interested ... ?
    An easy (?) E, omitting all the more obscure references, to link Theocritus, Virgil, Franck, Liszt, Dvorak, and Wellesz.

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    • Anna

      Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
      No; perhaps I should've included a sausage association
      I do apologise, but a little prick with a fork can make or mar a meal it seems! And vints started it!

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
        An easy (?) E, omitting all the more obscure references, to link Theocritus, Virgil, Franck, Liszt, Dvorak, and Wellesz.
        As they might say outside a shoe shop in Lancashire:
        "Ee clogs!", perhaps?
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • subcontrabass
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          • Nov 2010
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          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
          As they might say outside a shoe shop in Lancashire:
          "Ee clogs!", perhaps?

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          • Nick Armstrong
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            • Nov 2010
            • 26540

            Originally posted by Anna View Post
            I do apologise, but a little prick with a fork can make or mar a meal it seems!
            If the worst comes to the worst, you can always ask him to leave....

            (Among other possible responses )
            "...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
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              • Nov 2010
              • 26540

              Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
              I assume Finzi could have been in there too?

              (Apologies for not applying myself to Saturday's tests... it's turned into a work weekend so the braincells - struggling anyway after a busy week - are up against it already!)
              "...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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              • subcontrabass
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                • Nov 2010
                • 2780

                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                I assume Finzi could have been in there too?
                Yes, and various others. The more obscure ones that I omitted were Tomášek (who appears to have been the first to use the term for a piano piece in 1807) and Vítězslav Novák.

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                • Nick Armstrong
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26540

                  E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-Eclogue!!!!

                  I have the simplest of Fs ready. It's all I can manage today.
                  "...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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                  • Anna

                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                    I have the simplest of Fs ready. It's all I can manage today.[/COLOR]
                    There's no answer to that, in polite society, is there?

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                    • Nick Armstrong
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26540

                      Originally posted by Anna View Post
                      There's no answer to that, in polite society, is there?
                      "...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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                      • Anna

                        I am probably over excited, as to the Finale of The Killing tonight.

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26540

                          Originally posted by Anna View Post
                          I am probably over excited, as to the Finale of The Killing tonight.
                          I'm with you!
                          "...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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                          • subcontrabass
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 2780

                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-Eclogue!!!!

                            I have the simplest of Fs ready. It's all I can manage today.
                            Strictly speaking, fhg got to "eclogues" before you, but since he and I seem to have been keeping the main line of this thread alive today on our own I am sure he will be happy to let you continue with an F.

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                            • Nick Armstrong
                              Host
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 26540

                              Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                              Strictly speaking, fhg got to "eclogues" before you, but since he and I seem to have been keeping the main line of this thread alive today on our own I am sure he will be happy to let you continue with an F.
                              AH! I only just got what he was going on about clogs for!

                              Well, he didn't spell Eclogue right so F-F-F-F-Forfeits the F...

                              He and others ought to get this in a trice:

                              What F connects Richard Strauss, Carl Nielsen and T.S. Eliot ?
                              "...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

                                Four? (Last Songs, Temperaments, Quartets)

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