Gauk
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« on: August 16, 2016, 06:39:25 pm » |
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Which is the odd one out?
Oxford Cambridge London Norwich Nottingham
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Christo
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« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2016, 06:50:37 pm » |
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Which is the odd one out?
Oxford Cambridge London Norwich Nottingham Cambridge. It has no 'o' in its name.
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BrianA
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« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2016, 08:46:49 pm » |
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Norwich (I think!).
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BrianA
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« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2016, 08:53:09 pm » |
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Actually I take it back... :-\
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Grandenorm
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« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2016, 10:28:46 pm » |
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Cambridge. The others are symphonies by Haydn, Vaughan Williams, Edward German and Alan Bush respectively.
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BrianA
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« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2016, 10:39:15 pm » |
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I'm pretty sure there's a Cambridge symphony by Parry (or perhaps Stanford). Initially I thought there was no "Norwich" symphony but a quick google reminded me of German's piece. So I'm perplexed.
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« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2016, 10:41:16 pm » |
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That's my response too: Hubert Parry's Symphony No. 2 in F from 1882-3 is his 'Cambridge Symphony'.
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… music is not only an `entertainment’, nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found. RVW, 1948
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Grandenorm
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« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2016, 10:33:57 am » |
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Ah. I thought it was too easy. Back to the drawing board (or on with the thinking cap again).
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Gauk
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« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2016, 10:49:28 am » |
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You are getting there ...
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Grandenorm
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« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2016, 11:18:14 am » |
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It is Oxford. All the others are their respective composer's 2nd symphonies. The Oxford was Haydn's no. 92.
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« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2016, 02:25:19 pm » |
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Oxford.
The others have great universities.
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Gauk
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« Reply #12 on: August 17, 2016, 10:29:24 pm » |
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It is Oxford. All the others are their respective composer's 2nd symphonies. The Oxford was Haydn's no. 92.
Well done! It should have been obvious that anything posted on this site would have a musical answer, so minus points to anyone suggesting a non-musical answer. I do think it is remarkable that all the symphonies named after English towns should be their composers' second, with the single exception of Haydn, and even then it's his 92nd. As far as I'm aware, that's all the symphonies named after English towns, though there is a violin concerto "The Leeds" by Howard Blake, and an Edinburgh symphony by Julius Röntgen. Any I've missed?
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« Reply #13 on: August 17, 2016, 10:41:54 pm » |
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There's a 'The Relief of Derry Symphony' by composer Shaun Davey (brought the CD with me from Ireland). But Derry won't count as an 'English town', not even as Londonderry. Neither BTW will Edinburgh (yes, the score of Julius Röntgen's Edinburgh Symphony (no. 14, from 1930) was rediscovered in Edinburgh, just a few years ago.), see: http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/all-news/symphony-160310
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Gauk
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« Reply #14 on: August 18, 2016, 12:02:10 am » |
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There's a 'The Relief of Derry Symphony' by composer Shaun Davey (brought it with me from Ireland). But Derry won't count as an 'English town', not even as Londonderry. Neither BTW will Edinburgh (yes, the manuscript of Julius Röntgen's Edinburgh Symphony was rediscovered in Edinburgh, just a few years ago.)
No, Edinburgh is a miss, as is Derry. Besides, "The Relief of Derry" commemorates an event rather than a town. However, there is a Limerick Symphony by Seoirse Bodley, if one is looking at Ireland.
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