Nice piece - shame about the title...

[ahinton]

By "accessible", I guess I meant written so as to attract the musically untrained, but slightly adventurous, among us - tuneful without being trivial. I suspect that Ferretfancy may have also understood the word in that sense.

Well, there are quite a few possible and equally valid - uses of the term in a contxt such as this, as I'm sure you, Ferret fancy and others would agree (or at least I hope that you all would!) yet, in the particular sense that you pur forward here, its degree of "accessibility" can surely only be of concern to - and measurable by - the ears of each individual beholder.

[ahinton]

is it any good?

Much as it is said to be rude to answer a question with another question, I feel bound (without any intent to be rude) to do so here by asking the same of you.

Anyway, changing the subject (or rather turning it on its head), here's one for you all (that's been aired previously, I know, but not to worry). Tippett - Symphony No. 3: nice title - shame about the piece (or most of it, anyway)....

[Serial_Apologist]

One work which definitely fits the criterion is that drawn from Rossini's "Peches de ma vieillesse": roughly translated as follows: "Radishes, Anchovies, Pickles and Butter Themes and Variations". A tasty morsel but a mouthful to say.

And here a like title to a David Bedford brass ensemble composition from 1971:

"Pancakes with Butter, Maple Syrup and Bacon, and the TV Weathermen"

[Richard Tarleton]

And here a like title to a David Bedford brass ensemble composition from 1971:

"Pancakes with Butter, Maple Syrup and Bacon, and the TV Weathermen"

From the same stable as Star Clusters, Nebulae and Places in Devon

[Serial_Apologist]

From the same stable as Star Clusters, Nebulae and Places in Devon

From the same erole (Bristol vernacular)

[Bryn]

I rather thought that this thread mentioned works which were very accessible, but unfortunately titled --- does the Sorabji fit the description

I have a recording of a fine performance of Sorabji's Sequentia Cyclica super Dies Iræ ex Missa pro Defunctis in Clavicembali usum playing here as I type. As it happens the recording is of a performance attended by at least two contributors here.

[Panjandrum]

Much as it is said to be rude to answer a question with another question, I feel bound (without any intent to be rude) to do so here by asking the same of you.

Anyway, changing the subject (or rather turning it on its head), here's one for you all (that's been aired previously, I know, but not to worry). Tippett - Symphony No. 3: nice title - shame about the piece (or most of it, anyway)....

Hardly a glowing endorsement - so I'll take it as a "no" then in answer to my question?

BTW, in what sense, do you mean "am (I) any good (sic)? In the christian sense? In a moral sense? In the sense of being adept at any particular activity?

You really need to make yourself clearer, ahinton!

[PatrickOD]

Well, if ahinton can turn the subject on its head, so can I. I give you a piece that has a wonderful title and is a joy to listen to:

The Big Turtle Fanfare from the South China Sea

The title is nearly as long as the piece which lasts 37 seconds. Accessible? Not half!

[Norfolk Born]

To turn the subject truly on its head, would you not need to nominate a piece with an attractive title that is in fact unlistenable to or at least incapable of generating joy in the listener?

[Boilk]

How about a post which is actually relevant to this thread's title?

I'm not sure I'd call the folliwng pieces necessarily "nice" but the titles are, as is the tendency with Mr. Adams , shamelessly bl**dy attention seeking... but in many cases they've done the job of fast-tracking the work into the repertoire and hauling in audiences.

My Father Knew Charles Ives
I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Hallelujah Junction
Hoodoo Zephyr
The Gospel According to the Other Mary
Naive and Sentimental Music
Lollapalooza

Faced with the choice of attending a concert of Symphoy No.3 or Lollapalooza, what do you think most (especially younger) people would choose to attend?

[ahinton]

Hardly a glowing endorsement - so I'll take it as a "no" then in answer to my question?

That's up to you.

BTW, in what sense, do you mean "am (I) any good (sic)? In the christian sense? In a moral sense? In the sense of being adept at any particular activity?

Again, that's for you to decide, if you wish, once you've inserted the missing closing inverted commas after your "(sic)?"

You really need to make yourself clearer, ahinton!

I have now, even if I hadn't previously!

[ahinton]

How about a post which is actually relevant to this thread's title?

I'm not sure I'd call the folliwng pieces necessarily "nice" but the titles are, as is the tendency with Mr. Adams , shamelessly bl**dy attention seeking... but in many cases they've done the job of fast-tracking the work into the repertoire and hauling in audiences.

My Father Knew Charles Ives

The problem here is that, as the composer himself has readily admitted, his father did not know Charles Ives as did, for example, Elliott Carter's father.

Faced with the choice of attending a concert of Symphoy No.3 or Lollapalooza, what do you think most (especially younger) people would choose to attend?

Presuming you to mean the Symphony No. 3 by the otherwise often excellent Michael Tippett, the answer to your question is that I have no idea and not much concern either.

[Panjandrum]

The problem here is that, as the composer himself has readily admitted, his father did not know Charles Ives as did, for example, Elliott Carter's father.


Presuming you to mean the Symphony No. 3 by the otherwise often excellent Michael Tippett, the answer to your question is that I have no idea and not much concern either.

Ahinton you need to work on your multi-quoting. I am afraid you give me undeserved credit for attributing these words to me. Try friend Boilk.

[ahinton]

Ahinton you need to work on your multi-quoting. I am afraid you give me undeserved credit for attributing these words to me. Try friend Boilk.

Only some of them - now corrected; no idea how that occurred.

[Boilk]

Presuming you to mean the Symphony No. 3 by the otherwise often excellent Michael Tippett, the answer to your question is that I have no idea and not much concern either.

Actually "Symphony No.3" was entirely at random (or else totally subconscious) ... I chose a low number because youngish symphonists these days don't write that many.