Musical puns, jokes, and teasers

[Timtin]

Hi Tim,
I suppose that must have been some party when the Mighty Handful had a (Les) Six-pack in it's Russian hands.
1. Auric
2. Balakirev
3. Durey
4. Borodin
5. Honegger
6. Cui
7. Milhaud
8. Mussorgsky
9. Poulenc
10. Ripshis-Corsetsoff
11. Tailleferre

cheers
Brian

Yet again Brian, I fear this was too easy. Thanks for playing the game - not many do.
(I'm a long way from being Pianophilia's biggest Russophile, but in this case 5 > 6 imo.)

[Timtin]

For your weekend edutainment (entercation?), here are 10 anagrams
of compositions by one amazing composer, plus one anagram which is
entirely unrelated, but which sounds like it should be related.
Can you identify the compositions, the composer, and the (Pianophilian)
odd one out? Enjoy!

1. Tangle (1'5)
2. Saluting (8)
3. Silly arch (9)
4. A vast lilac (5,5)
5. Temerous cups (4,8)
6. Dreamier libel (1'12)
7. Delicious and not (2,4,2,7)
8. It is obscurantic lumps (4,16)
9. VIP hocus-pocus - I'm manly (4,16)
10.Stoic clues - bulimiac vamp (4,18)
11.No slushily comic vacuum pump (9,16).

[HullandHellandHalifax]

For your weekend edutainment (entercation?), here are 10 anagrams
of compositions by one amazing composer, plus one anagram which is
entirely unrelated, but which sounds like it should be related.
Can you identify the compositions, the composer, and the (Pianophilian)
odd one out? Enjoy!

1. Tangle (1'5)
2. Saluting (8)
3. Silly arch (9)
4. A vast lilac (5,5)
5. Temerous cups (4,8)
6. Dreamier libel (1'12)
7. Delicious and not (2,4,2,7)
8. It is obscurantic lumps (4,16)
9. VIP hocus-pocus - I'm manly (4,16)
10.Stoic clues - bulimiac vamp (4,18)
11.No slushily comic vacuum pump (9,16).

Timtim, Timtim, you've done it again, clue 8 should be "It is obscurantic rumps" not lumps
then the answers will be as follows
1. L'Etang (starring Robert Redford)
2. Gulistan (soon to be part of Greater Moscow)
3. Chrysilla (Priscilla's significant other)
4. Villa Tasca (served rare please)
5. Opus secretum ( sounds very dodgy to me, is it patented)
6. L'irremediable (obviously not, it didn't work)
7. Un nido di scatole ( now you know why it didn't work)
8. Opus Transcribisticum ( Ah! the only thing that does work)
9. Opus Clavisymphonicum (you makes your mind up and you takes your choice)
10. Opus Clavicembalisticum (surely Opus Verybombasticum)
11. Opusculum Clavisymphonicum ( aargghhh! lance the boil and get a load of mucky stuff for your trouble)

thus the answers are that they are all by Sorabji with the exception of No.8 which is by Ludwig the Listmaker
..and the latest discovery the OpusTimtinicum meccanosymphonicocalculatoricum which has just found a new prime number
best wishes
Brian

[Timtin]

Brian - there's no point in me getting the clues correct - you'll solve them anyway!
Best wishes, Timtinicumanagramicumcockupicumagainicum.

[FW190]

I've just read the very important fact that the German name of the little monkey Cotton-top tamarin (or Saguinus oedipus) is Lisztaffe. Wiki mentions "It takes its name probably because of the similarity of his hairstyle to that of the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Liszt".
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisztaffe

[HullandHellandHalifax]

hehe, it could be indeed, though from the wikiphotos a cross between Paderewski and Nigel Kennedy would be more likely, goodness knows what latinised name it would then receive!
regards
Brian

[Timtin]

Here's another little quiz following the usual format.
All you need to do is name the famous double act and
say why that isn't case here.
1. Aga goes (4,3)
2. Bo! Cad no.XX (3,3,3)
3. Aha! Pad piracy (5,7)
4. Oz Theo (3,3)
5. Corniest spot (8,4)
6. Oh! Naive (7)
7. Best token human (3,11)
8. Ah! Hand doll (6,4)
9. Lech sex nicely (3,10)
10. Fetishes are poor (3,4,2,6).

[HullandHellandHalifax]

Hi Tim,
1. Ages ago
2. Cox and Box
3. Happy arcadia
4. The Zoo
5. Princess toto
6. Ivanhoe
7. The Mountebanks
8. Haddon hall
9. His Excellency
10. The Rose of Persia

They are all from the pen of course of W. S. Gilbert but not Sullivan, Gilbert collaborated with Clay and others, I wonder why they are now never heard, perhaps they miss that little spark of genius that bound those two less than bosom buddies together.

cheers
Brian

[Timtin]

Very good Brian!

Just to clarify things, the odd nos. have lyrics by Gilbert and the even
nos. have music by Sullivan. These are the actual composers/lyricists:-

1. Clay/Gilbert
2. Sullivan/Burnand
3. Clay/Gilbert
4. Sullivan/Stephenson (aka Rowe)
5. Clay/Gilbert
6. Sullivan/Sturgis
7. Cellier/Gilbert
8. Sullivan/Grundy
9. Carr/Gilbert
10. Sullivan/Hood.

Using the (usual?) convention of composer then lyricist, logically the phrase
should be 'Sullivan and Gilbert', rather than the reverse.

All these works are SO out of fashion, including with almost everyone here,
I dare say, that I just had to give them a mention.

I had to censor one of the anagrams, and another one just got through.

[Timtin]

Following my painful shaving accident last week in which both arms
were severed above the elbow, I've now become an internationally
renowned foot pianist. My numerous publications of piano music
for 2F have been an instant and amazing success across the globe.
Here's an example of an arrangement for 2F I've made of a piece
by Diller and Quaile, complete with toeings. The lack of rests is
deliberate - the unused foot on each stave is for controlling the
pedals, needless to say.

Diller-Quaile Buy a Broom (2F Timtin).pdf