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« Reply #15 on: August 18, 2016, 09:42:55 am » |
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Any I've missed?
Yes! Bax's Symphony No 6, 'Tintagel'. I'm sure this was merely an oversight on your part... unless there are nomenclature issues over whether Tintagel is really a 'town'? ;D an Edinburgh symphony by Julius Röntgen Now there are nomenclature issues there, y'saucy Sassenach! :) If we're going to broaden the catchment to Scotland (not, ehem, a part of England), the haul increases somewhat :) |
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« Reply #16 on: August 18, 2016, 11:12:20 am » |
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I've never heard of Bax's Symphony No. 6 having the title "Tintagel", more especially since Bax wrote a tone poem of the same name. In any case Tintagel is a tiny Cornish village, entirely dominated by the castle which gives it its name. All the other places are not only towns, but cities.
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« Reply #17 on: August 18, 2016, 12:08:39 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? Implying that Edinburgh is an English town?! :-\ |
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« Reply #18 on: August 19, 2016, 09:28:33 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.
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? Implying that Edinburgh is an English town?! :-\ Hardly - I do live there, you know! Neither am I implying that a violin concerto is a symphony. |
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« Reply #19 on: August 19, 2016, 11:27:00 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.
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? Implying that Edinburgh is an English town?! :-\ Hardly - I do live there, you know! Neither am I implying that a violin concerto is a symphony. Phew!! ;D |
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Gauk
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« Reply #20 on: August 19, 2016, 10:51:49 pm » |
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an Edinburgh symphony by Julius Röntgen Now there are nomenclature issues there, y'saucy Sassenach! :) If we're going to broaden the catchment to Scotland (not, ehem, a part of England), the haul increases somewhat :) We aren't, and I'm nae Sassenach. But if we did, does the haul increase that much? |
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