HullandHellandHalifax wrote:Sorry Jo, you will have to rise at 2 am to beat me
Not sure that nocturnal lucubration would have helped me with Tim's latest set. You and he are now plumbing the depths of musical obscurity (Oakeley, Obizzi and Overend??? Come off it!). I must reluctantly confess to having reached the limit of my knowledge of recondite repertoire.
Well done Brian and bad luck Jo. Please note that with this sort of quiz
(i.e. with a common first letter), all the answers appear on the appropriate
page of the IMSLP site. In fact this source is what I'll use in future in all types
of quiz. So where spellings are not definitive, their's will be the ones used.
Sorry about no.1, which should have read:-
1. Streaky boreal ethylene (7,7,7).
Timtin wrote:Well done Brian and bad luck Jo. Please note that with this sort of quiz
(i.e. with a common first letter), all the answers appear on the appropriate
page of the IMSLP site. In fact this source is what I'll use in future in all types
of quiz. So where spellings are not definitive, their's will be the ones used.
Sorry about no.1, which should have read:-
1. Streaky boreal ethylene (7,7,7).
I must admit to having done just that when I realised they all began with an O to read about Obizzi and two others, they were a difficult set no doubt.
regards
Brian
Timtin wrote:all the answers appear on the appropriate
page of the IMSLP site.
I must admit to having done just that when I realised they all began with an O to read about Obizzi and two others, they were a difficult set no doubt.
Idiot that I am - why didn't I cotton on to this obvious strategy (or genteel form of cheating, as some - not I! - might deem it)?
Another tiny clue to the link was the very first 'word' in the quiz message.
It began "O well.....". Preambles usually try to include some sneaky clue like that.
(Disappointment at yet another crapagram inclusion was today matched only by my
main computer crashing fatally this morning, just after the last message was posted.)
Timtin wrote:all the answers appear on the appropriate
page of the IMSLP site.
I must admit to having done just that when I realised they all began with an O to read about Obizzi and two others, they were a difficult set no doubt.
Idiot that I am - why didn't I cotton on to this obvious strategy (or genteel form of cheating, as some - not I! - might deem it)?
Jo
Alls fair in love, war and Timtins crapagrams Jo!!, though actually I agree but when someone himself cheats by consulting IMSLP for potential anagrams so that specialised knowledge is necessary then I think its fair if we work out the link and then find the unknown composers.
Perhaps poetic justice was done when his computer crashed fatally, probably from too much searching for nasties to send to us!
regards
Brian
This next one is a little different. Firstly, no reference was made to IMSLP.
Secondly, the 10 composers here have 3 very specific things in common.
As with Brian's last puzzle, one letter is omitted from each anagram - in
this case it's the first letter of each composer's first name. Enjoy!
1. On bent hen (4,6)
2. Hull nob (4,4)
3. And now hold (4,7)
4. Frame horn (4,6)
5. Undo hymn (4,5)
6. Fond or herd (4,7)
7. Shh! Hope nerd (4,8)
8. Ran hot never (4,8)
9. Now hard (4,4)
10. Hey! Blow in (4,6).
Hi Tim,
This must be a record for me, I did them all within 5 minutes but to be fair to the others I will send you the answers via pm and let the others and poor Jo have a go. Didn't even need pen and paper, must remember to reapply for mensa.
regards
Brian
HullandHellandHalifax wrote:Hi Tim,
This must be a record for me, I did them all within 5 minutes but to be fair to the others I will send you the answers via pm and let the others and poor Jo have a go. Didn't even need pen and paper, must remember to reapply for mensa.
regards
Brian
I was a member of Mensa as a 15 year old - a couple of years ago or so. And yet I am completely incapable of doing anagrams. It's something to do with the way one's brain is wired or else it's a skill I simply never learned - I am not sure which.
HullandHellandHalifax wrote:Hi Tim,
This must be a record for me, I did them all within 5 minutes but to be fair to the others I will send you the answers via pm and let the others and poor Jo have a go. Didn't even need pen and paper, must remember to reapply for mensa.
regards
Brian
I was a member of Mensa as a 15 year old - a couple of years ago or so. And yet I am completely incapable of doing anagrams. It's something to do with the way one's brain is wired or else it's a skill I simply never learned - I am not sure which.
Actually Rob, I think it can be learned, it is all to do with the visual aspect, it is just the same as sight-reading, you see a score but you do not see individual notes and chords, you see a movement and a shape with certain features that identify it in your brain as a certain chord. Your own musical intelligence then takes over often assuming or anticipating what the next chord will be.
Speed reading is essentially the same you read words without considering each word for what it is and your brain works out what the whole sentence is all about and so you go on doing a sort of precis of what your eye sees.
With anagrams I usually separate vowels from consonants and certain common letter patterns suggest themselves to me and by elimination of one or more of these you can work the whole anagram out pretty quickly. The skill in making an anagram is to place strong letter combinations in the anagram that imprint themselves on your brain stopping you from dissecting the anagram properly.
regards
Brian
