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    #1576
    Originally posted by Anna View Post
    Would I care to elaborate? Well, not really, it was a pure guess!! There is Handel's Harpsichord Suite, Brahms 4th, Mendelshom's C Minor for Organ and Lully's Armide which have passacaglias but I don't know if those are the ones you are looking for? I think probably not, so maybe you can elaborate?
    Yes they are, Anna! You have elaborated most elegantly.

    The only one to add would be the amazing passacaglia "Amor" in the middle of Monteverdi's "Lamento della Ninfa" from Book 8 of the Madrigals - starts around 2:00 in this version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxcMZl6YwNs

    You are right there's one in one of the harpsichord suites, but I think possibly my favourite passacaglia of all is a different one by Handel. I don't know what it is, it gets me every time, and I can listen to it time after time and it puts me in a wonderful frame of mind. He reused it a number of times (I've heard it in four different contexts in various of his works - he obviously knew it was a winner), notably in the Sinfonia-Passacaglia in "Radamisto" and wonderfully in a choral version in "Parnasso in Festa": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f3CW2L5zrQ

    Rubbers - I have reason to know you know that! Track 20, Disc 1
    "...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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      #1577
      Originally posted by OFCACHAP View Post
      it's not every day that one gets to find Eisenach and Lowestoft in the same sentence!
      I KNOW! My thought exactly... I was longing to deploy it for that very reason
      "...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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        #1578
        Originally posted by Tapiola View Post
        Apologies for the language - it was a charming exhortation I witnessed between the local "intelligentsia" last night, on the way back from buying "a pint of milk".

        No need for apology as far as I am concerned. Hilarious.
        "...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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          #1579
          I'll have a go with a Q then, but it's a bit pub quizzy.

          "I'm thrilled and dizzy, that's a nice colour but what are you doing with those doors?"

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            #1580
            Originally posted by Anna View Post
            I'll have a go with a Q then, but it's a bit pub quizzy.

            "I'm thrilled and dizzy, that's a nice colour but what are you doing with those doors?"
            My only way in (excuse the pun) is via the third element - does one assume Mr Morrison is involved?
            "...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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              #1581
              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              My only way in (excuse the pun) is via the third element - does one assume Mr Morrison is involved?
              Sorry, not The Doors. There are four elements. Two of which refer to films.
              Last edited by Guest; 13-02-11, 14:57. Reason: additional information

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                #1582
                Originally posted by hercule
                Purple is a nice color and Michael Jackson thrilled us
                It is, isn't it? And he did, didn't he? Care to dig a little deeper hercule?
                Last edited by Guest; 13-02-11, 15:25.

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                  #1583
                  Originally posted by hercule
                  well I think we're with that well-known Welshman Mr Jones but I can't get the doors reference, doubtless someone else will
                  Oh, so near and yet so far away! Someone must get it now?

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                    #1584
                    Originally posted by hercule
                    as far as Italy?
                    Yes, you could say that!

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                      #1585
                      Quincy Jones

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                        #1586
                        Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                        Quincy Jones
                        YES!! Quincy Jones. Care to fill in the gaps, hercule was there but suddenly it seems he was overcome with shyness.

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                          #1587
                          Hercule had it all along - he was just toying with you, Anna

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                            #1588
                            Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                            Hercule had it all along - he was just toying with you, Anna
                            Well, it seems as hercule has retired from the fray the R belongs to you

                            Qunicy Jones produced Thriller, was musical director for Dizzy Gillespie, scored The Colour Purple and of course the doors was a reference to The Italian Job. Could also have put in a clue for We are the World or that he studied under Nadia Boulanger and Messiaen (not a lot of people know that!)

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                              #1589
                              Originally posted by Anna View Post
                              Care to fill in the gaps
                              Oh, if you insist... Quincy Jones played trumpet with the Dizzy Gillespie Band and went on to lead it, produced Michael Jackson's Off the Wall and Thriller, and wrote the soundtrack for the Color Purple and the Italian Job, as in "you're only supposed to blow the..." A propos of which the wording of the clue was a bit misleading, as it was not the fate of the doors which was in issue

                              Anyway, since Hercule doesn't want R I'll try and come up with something.

                              Weirdly, my next door neighbour has just been on Private Passions, I kid you not...

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                                #1590
                                Originally posted by rubbernecker View Post
                                the Italian Job, as in "you're only supposed to blow the..." A propos of which the wording of the clue was a bit misleading, as it was not the fate of the doors which were in issue

                                Anyway, since Hercule doesn't want R I'll try and come up with something
                                Yes, I agree with you, the doors clue wasn't very good, I should have put 'what in the world are you doing with the doors' or something. But I did warn it was very pub quizzy! And finally solved by the champion pub quizzer of Crick! Now, I must get back to the Rugby.

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