Musical puns, jokes, and teasers

[Timtin]

This makes perfect sense. Personally, I have an aversion to Stockhausen.

Small country, ergo a short list of composers to spot from there:-
1. Silver on nukes (6,7)
2. Smell jam maniac (5,9)
3. Vaguest harem (4,8)
4. Ron or nib (5,3)
5. Wail a claim well (7,7).
Enjoy!

[Nogbert]

Small country, ergo a short list of composers to spot from there:-
1. Silver on nukes (6,7)
2. Smell jam maniac (5,9)
3. Vaguest harem (4,8)
4. Ron or nib (5,3)
5. Wail a claim well (7,7).
Enjoy!

Oh, goody - I've managed to slip in early, for a change.

1. Silver on nukes = Oliver Knussen
2. Smell jam maniac = James MacMillan
3. Vaguest harem = Thea Musgrave
4. Ron or nib = Robin Orr (a crapagram, TIm!)
5. Wail a claim well = William Wallace (this is the one that put me on track)

Jo

[Timtin]

Well done Jo!
Oops, sorry. No.4 should have read 'Ron or rib', of course (typo).

[Timtin]

Similar format as before:-
1. Cracker fans (5,6)
2. Strange red-eyed tormenters (5,6,7,6)
3. Softer leper (4,7)
4. Hit expensive rum (5,10)
5. Ensue gay eye (6,5).
Enjoy!

[Nogbert]

And now let me add a corollary to Tim's penultimate (Scottish) quiz. See if you can unscramble the following and work out the connection to Tim's set. No other clues this time!

1. Giggly pope (light type)
2. Leave uneven minim
3. Query comes on fast
4. Horse mint
5. Brings peace to his fate

Jo

PS - I see that Tim's just added a new quiz, which has overlapped with this post. Something more for me to work on BEFORE bedtime tonight.

[Timtin]

Jo's quiz took a bit of cracking!
1. Higglety Pigglety Pop
2. Veni, veni, Emmanuel
3. Mary, Queen of Scots
4. Hermiston
5. The Passing of Beatrice.

[rob]

Jo's quiz is very tricky!
1. Higglety Pigglety Pop (opera by Knussen)
2. Veni, veni, Emmanuel (opera by MacMillan)
3. Mary, Queen of Scots (opera by Musgrave)
4. Hermiston (opera by Orr)
5. (Anagram of an opera by Wallace).

The Jimmy MacMillan is NOT an opera but a Percussion Concerto written for (Dame) Evelyn Glennie.

I saw the Musgrave opera in its premiere run.

Don't think Olly Knussen makes anything of being Scottish despite being born in Glasgow, and I can't say I think of him as Scottish, only as British. Along with Tom Ades, the finest of our current crop of Brit composers.

[Timtin]

You're right, of course, Rob. Ines de Castro is his only opera so far, isn't it?
I was blindly following Jo's train of thought, without spotting the genre shift.
Nevertheless, in my defence, my message was updated beforehand.
Does it perhaps constitute a mild crapagram on Jo's part?

[Nogbert]

You're right, of course, Rob. Ines de Castro is his only opera so far, isn't it?
I was blindly following Jo's train of thought, without spotting the genre shift.
Nevertheless, in my defence, my message was updated beforehand.
Does it perhaps constitute a mild crapagram on Jo's part?

No, I wan't specifically thinking of operas - only of works that were amenable to anagrammatising. The Wallace, for instance, is a symphonic poem. And I must admit to having originally chosen a work by the Other Wallace (Vincent) before realising that they were different fellows.

Jo

[Nogbert]

Similar format as before:-
1. Cracker fans (5,6)
2. Strange red-eyed tormenters (5,6,7,6)
3. Softer leper (4,7)
4. Hit expensive rum (5,10)
5. Ensue gay eye (6,5).

OK, I think I've given Brian et al. enough time to work on this set, which deals with chaps from a notoriously dull country. (Too much bother to put in the proper accents.)
1. Cesar Franck
2. Andre Ernest Modeste Gretry (loved the anagram!)
3. Flor Peeters
4. Henri Vieuxtemps
5. Eugene Ysaye

Jo