Musical puns, jokes, and teasers

[Timtin]

Here we go again. I wonder who'll be first past the finnishing line?
1. Blunderer in harsh clerk (8,6,7)
2. Rant jars female (5,9)
3. Sing, vaulted (7,4)
4. Ample gremlins (5,8)
5. Issue jab line (4,8).

[HullandHellandHalifax]

Here we go again. I wonder who'll be first past the finnishing line?
1. Blunderer in harsh clerk (8,6,7)
2. Rant jars female (5,9)
3. Sing, vaulted (7,4)
4. Ample gremlins (5,8)
5. Issue jab line (4,8).

Hi Tim,here are the answers.
1. Bernhard Henrik Crusell
2. Armas Jarnefelt
3. Gustave Lind (was he Finnish, I used to think he was Swedish or an Englishman in disguise called Mullen? One of my books is adamant he was English!)
4. Selim Palmgren
5. Jean Sibelius
Brian

[Timtin]

Well done Brian - easy wasn't it?
I too was very doubtful about Lind, but slavishly followed the
listings given on the Finnish page of IMSLP (rightly or wrongly).

[Timtin]

This a set of descriptions of different instruments.
Can you identify which the instrument is being referred to in each case?

1. Tis wonderful how soon a - gets into a long-hut on the frontier. (RW Emerson)

2. The leader draws across
The intestines of the agile cat
The tail of the noble hoss. (GT Lanigan)

3. The - is not merely a big violin, it is a - . (C Forsyth)

4. I am not fond of the - : ordinarily I had just as soon hear
a bee buzzing in a stone jug. (GB Shaw)

5. A dangerous rogue-elephant. (CV Stanford)

6. The music of the - is enervating to the mind. (Ovid)

7. A boxen - , loud and sweet of sound,
All varnished and with brazen ringlets round,
I to the victor give. (A Philips)

8. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. (A Bierce)

9. A clarinet with a cold in its chest. (S Butler)

10. The noisy - hath nothing in it but mere air. (T Fuller)

[HullandHellandHalifax]

What an interesting quiz Tim,
I haven't looked up any of the quotes but just used my imagination, they're probably all wrong but "could be" right.
1. harmonium
2. Violin
3. Double Bass
4. Oboe though a Crumhorn fits the description much better
5. Tuba
6. Flute
7. Trumpet though again a Strumpet appears to fit the description better though how you play on one I don't know as I have no practical knowledge of one
8. Bagpipes (must be!!!!)
9. Saxophone
10. Drum

I am certainly not convinced about any of them, I wonder what our resident sleuths (cribbers) will come up with?
regards
Brian

[Timtin]

Brian - your answers are undoubtedly appropriate!
However, the instruments actually turn out to be:-
I. Piano
2. Violin
3. Viola
4. Cello
5. Double Bass
6. Flute
7. Oboe
8. Clarinet
9. Bassoon
10. Drum.

[Timtin]

After a long break, here are 10 more composer anagrams.
Those of a masochistic disposition may like to unscramble
them to reveal the names.
They are all nationals of the same European country.

1. London jar (3,6)
2. Alfor's on Jan task (7,8)
3. Humorous as tank (6,8)
4. Violent shriek (6,7)
5. Losers crash (7,4)
6. Joins elf (3,5)
7. The old is modern (4,10)
8. Makes all sons (6,6)
9. Sane for Satan (6,6)
10. So like dark irritation (8,12).

[Nogbert]

After a long break, here are 10 more composer anagrams.
Those of a masochistic disposition may like to unscramble
them to reveal the names.
They are all nationals of the same European country.

Hi Tim

Good to see that you're resurrecting this thread.

It's the start of our (southern hemisphere) academic year, so I've been rushing around trying to knock my Department into shape - hence the delay in picking up your latest contribution. I haven't had more than a few minutes to look through your list,- but I trust I'm on the right track in thinking that 5 (Losers crash) = Charles Ross. If so, I think one would need to be truly masochistic to unscramble some of the others!

Jo

[rob]

1. London jar (3,6)
2. Alfor's on Jan task (7,8)
3. Humorous as tank (6,8)
4. Violent shriek (6,7)
5. Losers crash (7,4)
6. Joins elf (3,5)
7. The old is modern (4,10)
8. Makes all sons (6,6)
9. Sane for Satan (6,6)
10. So like dark irritation (8,12).

Thank you for the nationality Jo. So, here are the rest, from the land of Eyjafjallajökull
1. Jon Nordal
2. Kjartan Olafsson
3. Haukur Tomasson
4. Oliver Kentish
5. see Jo's answer above
6. Jon Leifs
7. Emil Thoroddson
8. Askell Manson
9. Stefan Arason
10 Karolina Eiriksdottir
Without Jo's clue and Wikipedia this would have been impossible for me - I hate anagrams.

[Timtin]

Very well done Jo and Rob! Of course, not all 10 were born in Iceland,
so the question had to be phrased accordingly. On reflection, perhaps
their most famous composer (Haflidi Hallgrimsson) should have been
included, but I was put off by the Futhark(?) d in his first name.
This is what the clue would have been:-
11. Fairish smallholding (7,12).

I'll do another soon, if you like - they're more fun to compile than to solve!
Bw, Tim.