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    #28201
    Originally posted by Flay View Post

    Something for your nightmares, Calibs xx
    "...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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      #28202
      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      How about clavicembalo for harpsichord, and clavicembalista for harpsichordist?
      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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        #28203
        Originally posted by Flay View Post
        How about clavicembalo for harpsichord, and clavicembalista for harpsichordist?




        Buonanotte a tutti!
        "...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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          #28204
          Is there any more to get, Flay?

          "Clavicembalisticum" covers all the clues?
          "...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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            #28205
            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            Is there any more to get, Flay?

            "Clavicembalisticum" covers all the clues?
            It wasn't the best of questions (how often have I said that?)

            I'll spill he coleslaw and let someone else clear up the mess. Skeletons = harpsichord hence Clavicembalo.

            The diabolical work was Il Minuetto diabolico. Suite orchestrale su musica Clavicembalistica - Pier Giuseppe Sandoni. That was stretching things a bit.

            Opus Clavicembalisticum, all four or so hours of it.

            Sorabji apparently wrote to a friend: "With a wracking head and literally my whole body shaking as with ague I write this and tell you I have just this afternoon finished Clavicembalisticum... The closing 4 pages are so cataclysmic and catastrophic as anything I've ever done. The harmony bites like nitric acid, the counterpoint grinds like the mills of God..."

            Can you Do better, Calibs?
            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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              #28206
              I think Flay probably qualifies for AA Link of the Year - I haven't had any idea what it was about - really looking forward to the enlightenment of the Coleslaw!

              EDIT _ must have been good I even crashed the Coleslaw!

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                #28207
                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                The diabolical work was Il Minuetto diabolico. Suite orchestrale su musica Clavicembalistica - Pier Giuseppe Sandoni. That was stretching things a bit.

                Tricky !! I was nowhere near that bit !

                Will cogitate upon a D but might not be straight away, complicated day today...
                "...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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                  #28208
                  Roses, Jasmine, a Mountain King and Dolly - what D links them?
                  "...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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                    #28209
                    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                    Roses, Jasmine, a Mountain King and Dolly - what D links them?
                    Is Dolly - Faure or Parton?
                    Is the Mountain King Ibsen or even Grieg?
                    I haven't a smell of the others yet.

                    Or can I say it Disney matter?

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                      #28210
                      Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                      Is Dolly - Faure or Parton?
                      Is the Mountain King Ibsen or even Grieg?
                      I haven't a smell of the others yet.

                      Or can I say it Disney matter?
                      Sorry, been in a meeting.

                      None of the above, I'm afraid. The 'mountain king' was a deliberate piece of Clougie-style misdirection on my part
                      "...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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                        #28211
                        Anything to do with Delibes Flower Duet

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                          #28212
                          Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                          Anything to do with Delibes Flower Duet
                          A third to do with the Flower Duet, and everything to Do with Delibes!!
                          "...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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                            #28213
                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            A third to do with the Flower Duet, and everything to Do with Delibes!!
                            Presumably the duet of flowers is Rose and Jasmine.

                            So is it Roi a dit or Roi s'amuse?

                            And is the Dolly Coppelia?

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                              #28214
                              Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                              Presumably the duet of flowers is Rose and Jasmine.

                              So is it Roi a dit or Roi s'amuse?

                              And is the Dolly Coppelia?
                              Lakmé 'Flower Duet' is about Rose and Jasmine - yup
                              The Doll is Coppélia - yup
                              Last element: no. Don't forget the mountain!
                              "...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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                                #28215
                                Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                                Last element: no. Don't forget the mountain!
                                Le Roi des Montagnes, a comic opera in 3 acts

                                Edit: pehaps I should say two and a half acts - it was unfinished!
                                Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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