M&D [19) (was Re: M&D spoiler: Ariel's Song, etc.)

[davemarc]

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> From: Pierre-Yves Petillon <petillon at elias.ens.fr>
> Subject: M&D spoiler: Ariel's Song, see Orpheus, where else? re:
Pynchon's Tempest?
> Date: Monday, May 05, 1997 12:38 PM
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Pierre-Yves Petillon writes in part: 
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> Peter Holman at 1995 explains that "Thomas Linley's music for the Tempest
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written for a revival of the play at Drury Lane on 4 January 1777" - which
would be slightly for M&D although not that much. But he also explains that
Thomas Linley Jr "retained most of the established music for the play (a
mixture of the early 18th score, then attributed to Purcell and now thought
to be by his pupil John Welden, and that written by Thomas Arne in 1746).
"Linley retained Arne's famous setting of "where the bee sucks" but added a
chorus, cunningly adapting and orchestrating material from a glee version
of the song". see: www.hyperion-records.
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Yes.  Note the exact wording on Page 19:

	There are the usual Requests.  Does the Dog know "Where the Bee Sucks"? 
What is the Integral....

So it looks like a "request," like "Melancholy Baby."  Good one, Tom.

Maybe "Is he married?" relates to Tom & Melanie themselves....Gosh, maybe
all three questions have to do with them (Invisibility/Birds & Bees,
(matrimonial) log book, Is he married?).

Looks like we may be barking up the right tree here,

davemarc