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  • Angle
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 724

    H=Horn?

    Mozart wrote 4 concertos
    Ligeti : 1 horn concerto
    etc
    Hindemith 1
    Strauss 2
    Cherubini 1
    Beethoven 0

    But surely, Caliban gets the I

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    • Tapiola
      Full Member
      • Jan 2011
      • 1688

      Originally posted by Angle View Post
      With the F I had made a different connection : Maria in West Side Story mentions fleas in I Feel Pretty :

      It must be the heat
      Or some rare disease
      Or too much to eat
      Or maybe it's fleas

      A dog in Kipling's His Wedded Wife, spends its time searching for fleas and Brown Rats, like Black Rats, carry fleas.
      How interesting, Angle, that there is such a parallel solution! Great stuff. You, too, shall be awarded a lemon French Fancy.

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      • Tapiola
        Full Member
        • Jan 2011
        • 1688

        Cor, 11 minutes apiece for Caliban and Angle...

        Ligeti's concerto is interesting in that the soloist plays the only valved horn in the piece - the 4 orchestral horns are all natural.

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        • Angle
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 724

          How interesting, Angle, that there is such a parallel solution! Great stuff. You, too, shall be awarded a lemon French Fancy.
          I don't think I have ever had one before. Today's the day! Thanks, Tapiola.

          Previous Is: Indian, Invicta,Ian, Iphigenia, Imperial, Inches, Igor, Idyll, Ives, Indes, Irving

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26538

            Originally posted by Angle View Post
            But surely, Caliban gets the I
            Very sporting, Angle, thanks! I do as it happens have an I up my sleeve

            Give me a few moments to fine-tune it...
            "...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
              • 26538

              I.. I.. aye aye:

              I travelled to Rome, Tunis and Valencia... now I'm soaked in sea water but will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?
              "...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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              • Angle
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 724

                Iphigenia?

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                • Anna

                  I think the first part is Ibert: Escales (Ports of Call) in the 3 sections Rome Tunis & Valencia? Not sure of the rest

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                  • Angle
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 724

                    What am I saying ????

                    "will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand" is the cry of a famous Shakespearean Lady. How could one forget?

                    Also



                    It seems to be all yours, Anna.

                    I have not been fully wound up for the day yet.

                    .

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                    • Nick Armstrong
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26538

                      Anna! I'm delighted to have tee'd you up for your first question on your return.

                      Yes - Ibert's Escales.

                      Angle has supplied Ibert's score for the Orson Welles Macbeth.

                      One more to fill in?
                      "...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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                      • Angle
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 724

                        Symphonie marine

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26538

                          Originally posted by Angle View Post
                          What am I saying ????

                          "will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand" is the cry of a famous Shakespearean Lady. How could one forget?
                          Small point of order, Mr Chairman - it's actually Macbeth himself who says that:

                          "Whence is that knocking?
                          How is't with me, when every noise appals me?
                          What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes.
                          Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
                          Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
                          The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
                          Making the green one red."
                          (Act II scene 2)


                          Great stuff by the boy Shakespeare!


                          Angle, I think you were thinking about Lady M's obsession with her blood-stained hands in her sleepwalking scene at the start of Act 5:

                          "What, will these hands ne'er be clean?
                          ...
                          Here's the smell of the blood still: all the
                          perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little
                          hand Oh........!"


                          EDIT:
                          Originally posted by Angle View Post
                          Symphonie marine
                          Quite so!
                          Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 12-04-11, 12:12.
                          "...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

                            Well done Angle, that seems to tie it up nicely. (Oh, with all this talk of cakes I went out to the Patisserie and bought myself a lemon French Fancy - 89p each!!)

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                            • Angle
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 724

                              Oh, it is SO long since I read Macbeth but I shall do so again this week. What a wealth of knowledge and stimulation comes from this site. Thanks, Caliban, I was indeed.

                              J anyone? I have one ready if Anna, who lead the way, is not at hand within about five minutes.

                              Anna: It is again very sunny in Liverpool but the wind has changed direction and it is perishing! It is the weather for scouse.

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                              • Anna

                                Originally posted by Angle View Post
                                J anyone? I have one ready if Anna, who lead the way, is not at hand within about five minutes.

                                Anna: It is again very sunny in Liverpool but the wind has changed direction and it is perishing! It is the weather for scouse.
                                Angle, you go ahead with the J, I only got one part of it, you did all the work and I also have to attend to the mail which was awaiting me on my return (which included a rather nice unexpected cheque!) Glad the sun is still shining on Liverpool, sunny here too but bitterly cold wind.
                                Last edited by Guest; 12-04-11, 12:15. Reason: typo

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