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"...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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... and for Brassens' les neiges d'antanngg -
Georges Brassens, 1953.
BALLADE DES DAMES DU TEMPS JADIS
François Villon
Dictes moy ou, n'en quel pays
Est Flora la belle Rommaine,
Archipaida, né Thaïs
Qui fut sa cousine germaine,
Écho parlant quand bruyt on maine
Dessus rivière ou sus estan,
Qui beaulté ot trop plus qu'humaine.
Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?
Qui beaulté ot trop plus qu'humaine.
Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?
Ou est la très sage Hélloïs,
Pour qui fut chastré et puis moyne
Pierre Esbaillart a Saint Denis?
Pour son amour ot ceste essoyne.
Semblablement, ou est royne
Qui commanda que Buridan
Fut geté en ung sac en Saine?
Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?
Fust geté en ung sac en Saine?
Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?
La royne Blanche comme lis
Qui chantoit a voix de seraine,
Berte au grand pié, Bietris, Alis
Haremburgis qui tient le Maine,
Et Jehanne la bonne Lorraine
Qu'Englois brûlèrent a Rouan;
Ou sont ilz, Vierge souveraine?
Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?
Ou sont ils, ou Vierge souveraine?
Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?
Prince, n'enquérez de sepmaine
Ou elles sont, ne de cest an,
Qu'a ce reffrain ne vous remaine:
Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?
Qu'a ce reffrain ne vous remaine;
Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?Last edited by vinteuil; 15-11-11, 17:53.Comment
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Angle has an E. Let us concentrate on that, but could not resist
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Not very inspired, too rushed, but here goes:
E
A painting from Motherwell
One from Bottesini for double bass
Jules with singer, piano and cello wrote one
One clue is obviously not musical but the other are but the solution might be more poetic.Comment
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Elegy
Motherwell...something to do with the Spanish Republic
Bottesini and (Jules) Massenet both wrote elegiesComment
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Don't know about the Motherwell reference, but Elegy fits the others!Comment
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Robert Motherwell Elegy to the Spanish Republic (supplementing #9546)Last edited by Guest; 15-11-11, 18:11.Comment
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Faster than I thought.
Over to Norfolk Born for a flamin' FComment
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Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 15-11-11, 18:41. Reason: Woeful misattribution of triple bullseye! Apologies!"...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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What 'F' links: (a) a popular orchestral interlude; (b) the theme tune to a late 1960s female trio; and (c) a precursor to a seasonal oratorio? The trio is not musical.Comment
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Are we airborne, Norf, honey?[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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We are indeed.....Comment
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So: Rimsky's Blight of the Fumble Bee?
I take it the "seasonal oratorio" isn't Haydn's? The Festive season? Bach?[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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... or possibly Berlioz
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A-ha! I see that Tom Moss wrote a piece for Brass Band called Flight of the Liver Birds: the name of a 1960s - 70s sitcom involving three females (Beryl and Sandra, then when Beryl got married, Carole moved in)!
I can't get the Flight precursor to the oratorio. If it is Bach, then "Fugue" means "flight", but why "precursor" to the Oratorio?[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
Norfy
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