Not like the rest at all ?

[ahinton]

:-)
A mere footnote in history

Why do you so overstate his case?

How about a set of questions for potential MP's ?

It would be good to know their opinions on vibrato

Most would be in favour, I suspect, because it could be regarded as dissembling about the notes

HIPP

Broadly in favour again, I imagine, on the grounds that HIPPs are what you shoot from.

Whether 4:33" is one of the most significant pieces of the last century

Now that would be a harder one for most of them to answer; I can imagine that quite a few might be worried were the expression "4:33"'s a long time in politics" to enter common parlance.

and so on

Muß es sein?

Es muß sein!

Here's the next one.

How many gongs are called for in the Turangalîla-Symphonie?

[MrGongGong]

Why isn't there a harp in the Rite of Spring?

[ahinton]

Why isn't there a harp in the Rite of Spring?

Never mind that; what might be far more likely to exercise some of them is
"Why should we not sacrifice the Human Rites Act?"

[MrGongGong]

Never mind that; what might be far more likely to exercise some of them is
"Why should we not sacrifice the Human Rites Act?"

Indeed

[Richard Barrett]

Why isn't there a harp in the Rite of Spring?

Why isn't there a harp in anything by Messiaen?

Returning to Kipperland for a moment, with Carswell in parliament and Reckless perhaps about to follow, I suspect the party is set to implode into a black hole of nutters vs. ex-Tories.

[MrGongGong]

Why isn't there a harp in anything by Messiaen?

Returning to Kipperland for a moment, with Carswell in parliament and Reckless perhaps about to follow, I suspect the party is set to implode into a black hole of nutters vs. ex-Tories.

I never noticed that (the absence of Harp)

I think, (hope) you are right there.

[Richard Barrett]

I never noticed that (the absence of Harp)

A press release just in from Nigel Farage's office opines that it might have something to do with Messiaen's liking for octotonic scales, which as even Romanians know are a bit of a problem for the harp.

[MrGongGong]

A press release just in from Nigel Farage's office opines that it might have something to do with Messiaen's liking for octotonic scales, which as even Romanians know are a bit of a problem for the harp.

Surely the Kippers are more than capable of some fancy footwork ?

We were discussing the merits of uni-intervallic hexatonic scales the other night at our Conservative friends meeting. Some members feel they aren't really British enough for true patriot composers to use.

[Richard Barrett]

Some members feel they aren't really British enough for true patriot composers to use.

Quite so. Also French horns would under a Kippocracy be banned from orchestras and replaced by quintessentially British instruments like... er... VCS3s.

[MrGongGong]

Quite so. Also French horns would under a Kippocracy be banned from orchestras and replaced by quintessentially British instruments like... er... VCS3s.

Now you are talking
I'll swap you my old (Besson) french horn for a Putney

The Kippocracy would get rid of tambourines which might be their most sensible policy so far ?

[Serial_Apologist]

And ban Joes

[ahinton]

Surely the Kippers are more than capable of some fancy footwork ?

Mon Dieu! Do you really anticipate the possibility of Mr Cars-Reck on the next series of Strictly Dumb Prancing?

We were discussing the merits of uni-intervallic hexatonic scales the other night at our Conservative friends meeting. Some members feel they aren't really British enough for true patriot composers to use.

Well, nor are octotonic ones which, as Richard notes, were beloved of Messiaen (and, as he doesn't note, also of Shostakovich, his musical monogram comprising part of one) - but it's interesting that only some members felt them to be somehow unindigenous; what did the others think and why? (no names, no pack-drill, of course!)...

[ahinton]

A press release just in from Nigel Farage's office opines that it might have something to do with Messiaen's liking for octotonic scales, which as even Romanians know are a bit of a problem for the harp.

Indeed; for once that office seems to have issued something that might carry at least a morsel of truth, although the implication that at least some Kipper officials seem to have some knowledge of both Messiaen and modern concert harps might be thought by some to stretch credibility by a semitone or three.

[MrGongGong]

Well, nor are octotonic ones which, as Richard notes, were beloved of Messiaen (and, as he doesn't note, also of Shostakovich, his musical monogram comprising part of one) - but it's interesting that only some members felt them to be somehow unindigenous; what did the others think and why? (no names, no pack-drill, of course!)...

Pinko communists come over here with their alien tonalities
What is the Christian Democrat view of the augmented 4th I wonder ?

[ahinton]

Quite so. Also French horns would under a Kippocracy be banned from orchestras and replaced by quintessentially British instruments like... er... VCS3s.

Really? To the extent that Kippocracy is thought to be representative of an agenda to return to isolationism and mythical "British values" of a bygone age, VCS3s, whilst admittedly not "French", would surely be deemed no more appropriate a means of accompaniment to Morris dancing than would certain English Country-Tunes?...