Continuous Music Quiz

[robenestobenz]

Clue: It's not Gottfried Leibniz.

Argh, a SINGLE chord? This makes Lux Interior look obvious.....

One chord. Hmm. It's not Wagner with the Tristan chord or whatever, is it?

Bingo! (Did you watch Stephen Fry's Wagner documentary on BBC4 the other night too?)

I didn't actually. It's on my iplayer catch-up list, was it any good?

But I did think the chord had an F#... a fact by which Fex will no doubt want to disqualify me from concocting another question as he hated my last one so much. OK, let me think...

[hakey]

roben already got it Fex. It's the Tristan chord from Wagner's Tristan ond Isolde: F, B, D♯ and G♯.

It is, apparently, a very famous chord, though I only heard about it t'other night whilst half watching a doc. on BBC4.

[The Fex]

roben already got it Fex.

I was a bit slow to submit. I have edited accordingly.

[hakey]

(Did you watch Stephen Fry's Wagner documentary on BBC4 the other night too?)

I didn't actually. It's on my iplayer catch-up list, was it any good?

As someone who doesn't know all that much about Wagner I found it fairly interesting, though I suspect a Wagner fanatic wouldn't learn much new. Stephen Fry is usually worth watching anyway.

[robenestobenz]

Yeah, true enough about Mr. Fry. The thing on manic depression he did recently was quite interesting too..... I know nothing about Wagner except for a few bits and bobs so on the catchup list it stays.

Anyway. Lets counter the lofty and rrr-respectable pegging of Hakey's last. Which fun-loving lady was it who, whilst offering her gaping gob in concert, suffered the decision of an overpassing bird to execute the precision manoeuvre of shitting right into it as she sang?

Clues are available if you don't want to run straight to the long, long arms of Google.

[hakey]

Fun-loving? ... Cyndi Lauper?

[The Fex]

Cyndi Lauper?

Dammit, you got it before I'd even read the question.

[hakey]

Just a guess - was it the correct answer?

[robenestobenz]

Fun-loving? ... Cyndi Lauper?

Indeed. Good on ya, bird.

[hakey]

There's a very well known 'musician' lives just up the road from me. One could say that they put the 'dim' into diminutive; they think they live in the 'Lake District', but actually live about 2km outside another national park, in a hamlet, close to a 'bridge' where some famous siblings went to school.

Who?

[The Fex]

One could say that they put the 'dim' into diminutive

Nik Kershaw?
EDIT: Essex. I fail.

[hakey]

One could say that they put the 'dim' into diminutive

Nik Kershaw?

I can see the logic there, but no, not him.

[hakey]

I think the key to finding this out might be to identify the famous siblings, the 'bridge' and the hamlet.

You could say that in this question high art meets low, for one might reasonably describe the siblings output to have at least some artistic merit, whereas that of said dim musician is probably open to debate.

[whyterabbyt]

Brontes => Cowan Bridge => Kirkby Lonsdale

is what Ive got. muso not identified

[hakey]

There is a connection to our local dialect word for the verb 'to play', and also, as I have just discovered, the longest underfoot something in Britain.