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Sydney Grew
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« Reply #75 on: 23:29:41, 25-01-2008 »
Quote from: oliver sudden on 16:42:30, 25-01-2008
How this does very much remind us of our youth in the outer suburbs of Melbourne when we would oft repair to open spaces in the country-side for innocent physical recreations...

The flies are all too obvious; the hiccup is Mr. Sudden's unexpected leap from puzzle 5 to puzzle 7!
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« Reply #76 on: 23:32:42, 25-01-2008 »
Mr Sudden had inadvertently posted as Puzzle 6 a file on which the mp3 IDs were still present. Mr Grew may notice Member Dough's posting shortly afterward alerting him to the fact with a relish one might almost mistake for glee.  Roll Eyes

We were not so troubled by flies in the Melbourne of our youth. (Perth was another matter - our Perth Uncle Roy used to mutter something about a relative lack of dung beetles when questioned on the subject.)
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« Reply #77 on: 02:33:40, 26-01-2008 »
Do all Australian boys have a Perth Uncle or were you particularly privileged in that respect, Mr Sudden?
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« Reply #78 on: 09:45:32, 27-01-2008 »
Hmmm. It turns out there are three, and only three, categories of snatch in this quiz:


(a) I've absolutely no idea what that is. Never heard it before.

(b) I know that so well. It's ridiculously familiar but I just can't place it.

(c) Oooh. That's the last bit of the Mozart Oboe Quartet! ... Oh bum, someone else has got there first.   
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« Reply #79 on: 10:50:13, 27-01-2008 »
Mr. Iron's snatch 9 - or rather our own response to it - annoyed us so much! Finding it familiar we listened to the beginning of Cantatas 1 to 66 inclusive as well as to parts of two Passions but then not having the backbone to go on as far as number 198 fell off in vigour!

Snatch 10 sounds vaguely like Procofieff - with whose works we are insufficiently familiar. Is it at least something Russian? Snatches 2 7 and 11 fall for us too under Mr. Garnett's category A.

It amazes us that still no one can recognize snatch 1 even in its new 59-second version. It is a Great Work for Goodness's sake!

We are finding the calculation of the Great Member Rating Table a frightful fag especially since we suspect no one else has a pressing interest in it. The provisional logs on the other hand are easy, so we are writing a little program to generate the Table from them.
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« Reply #80 on: 11:10:28, 27-01-2008 »
Quote from: Sydney Grew on 10:50:13, 27-01-2008

 Great Member Rating Table

Another phrase to be Googled at one's peril, I fear....
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« Reply #81 on: 11:25:55, 27-01-2008 »
Quote from: Sydney Grew on 10:50:13, 27-01-2008
It amazes us that still no one can recognize snatch 1 even in its new 59-second version. It is a Great Work for Goodness's sake!

The 59 seconds is indeed very attractive - I get hints of Bax, Debussy, and something more eastern - but I haven't a clue.  Looking forward to the unveiling.

Tommo
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« Reply #82 on: 11:28:15, 27-01-2008 »
Quote from: thompson1780 on 11:25:55, 27-01-2008
The 59 seconds is indeed very attractive - I get hints of Bax, Debussy, and something more eastern - but I haven't a clue.  Looking forward to the unveiling.

As do I. No.10 is also beautiful...I listened earlier and was unable to place it, but the link no longer appears to work.  Sad
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« Reply #83 on: 11:30:53, 27-01-2008 »
Quote from: Ron Dough on 11:10:28, 27-01-2008
Quote from: Sydney Grew on 10:50:13, 27-01-2008

 Great Member Rating Table

Another phrase to be Googled at one's peril, I fear....

... although if you put 'Safe Search' on you can get a picture of one not actually in use:


                                

 
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« Reply #84 on: 13:21:46, 27-01-2008 »
A proposal for an alternative game - 'Name that piece' from different scorings of a single chord.

To give more change to participants, 'chord' can be taken to mean static harmony, so long as any moving parts are not thematic.

Taking the chord of C major as an example, clips could be:

- ASZ organ entry
- The end of Jupiter - bam!
- The end of The Jupiter
- The Creation ("Light!" is a bit of a giveaway though.  Would we need rules for lyrics?)
- The start of the recapitulation in Brahms 4.  The moving parts are not thematic (but the Ab could disqualify it though)
- The horn call in Brahms 1, so long as only one horn note was heard.

The game could proceed merrily arround the 24 keys (ignoring enharmonic differences Smiley), and then possibly diverge into more adventurous harmony.

I'm sure a scoring system could be introduced if members thought this important.  An adjudicator may be neccesary to indicate when to change chord.

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« Reply #85 on: 14:50:17, 27-01-2008 »
Quote from: Il Grande Inquisitor on 11:28:15, 27-01-2008
As do I. No.10 is also beautiful...I listened earlier and was unable to place it, but the link no longer appears to work.  Sad
Let me know if you're still having problems.., that's a site I pay for, so they'd better deliver!

PS It's not Procoffiefffff, though the mystery composer overlaps his or her lifespan very closely with another famous Russian composer, though without him- or herself being Russian.
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« Reply #86 on: 16:06:53, 27-01-2008 »
Well I'm very grumpy now.  Syd's RapidShare is the only thing that works for me.  Every time I try to use something else, my internet explorer crashes.

That of course means I can only participate in the joys of one out of ten snatches.  I can't see how that means this is a very fair competition.  Sad

Is there someone like AndyD who knows how to fix my PC?

Tommo
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« Reply #87 on: 16:36:22, 27-01-2008 »
Quote from: thompson1780 on 16:06:53, 27-01-2008
Is there someone like AndyD who knows how to fix my PC?

There's no-one like AndyD
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« Reply #88 on: 16:44:17, 27-01-2008 »
Tommo.

When your IE crashes, does it give you an error code?
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« Reply #89 on: 16:45:27, 27-01-2008 »
Quote from: thompson1780 on 16:06:53, 27-01-2008
Syd's RapidShare is the only thing that works for me.
Do you have "QuickTime" installed?
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