q15

[dubdobdee]

q15.

i: What Viennese dance celebrated 26 July?
ii: Who responded to news of the lugger in Kitt’s Hole?
iii: What reckless delight is enhanced by an abundance of Xeres?
iv: In what did the snail decline the whiting’s invitation to take part?
v: In which morbid exercise does a xylophone represent an osseous rattle?
vi: What famous dance sequence precedes Grimaldo’s attempt on the life of Badoero?
vii: Who “waltzed” in happy anticipation of a rendezvous with Marianne?
viii: In what did two geriatrics rekindle their love in West Yorkshire?
ix: In what pas de deux does Pertussis seem to participate?
x: What was sung from the shade of a Coolibah?

INCOMPLETE: we need vii!

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

iv: is the "lobster quadrille" in alice in wonderland
x: is one of the longer edward lear poems, probably "the jumblies" or "the dong with the luminous nose"

[(Anonymous)]

(Ktee here)

I think x is Waltzing Matilda?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh! and viii is Last Tango in Halifax! (they are all dances) (ktee again, hello :))

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Could v) be the Danse Macabre by Saint-Saens? Though the description sounds more like The Gonk from Dawn of the Dead (library music iirc)

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

v: The "Danse macabre" by Camille Saint-Saëns, where xylophones evoke skeletons, I believe.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

ix) Isn't Pertussis whooping cough? #UnhelpfulAnswersDept

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Not unhelpful at all as it turns out. Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker includes a pas de deux involving the Sugar Plum Fairy (her dance is part of it) and Prince Coqueluche:
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nutcracker_pas_de_deux

and Coqueluche is French for 'whooping cough'!

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

iii: "xeres" is prob alternative spelling of "sherry", if that helps anyone.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

vi. is easy to find with google - it's the Dance of the Hours from Ponchielli's opera La Gioconda

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

ii. is from Treasure Island, Chapter 5, the scene where Blind Pew dies:

Just then the noise of horses topped the rise, and four or five riders came in sight in the moonlight, and swept at full gallop down the slope.

At this Pew saw his error, turned with a scream, and ran straight for the ditch, into which he rolled. But he was on his feet again in a second, and made another dash, now utterly bewildered, right under the nearest of the coming horses. The rider tried to save him, but in vain. Down went Pew with a cry that rang high into the night; and the four hoofs trampled and spurned him and passed by. He fell on his side, then gently collapsed upon his face, and moved no more.

I leaped to my feet and hailed the riders. They were pulling up, at any rate, horrified at the accident; and I soon saw what they were. One, tailing out behind the rest, was a lad that had gone from the hamlet to Dr. Livesey's; the rest were revenue officers, whom he had met by the way, and with whom he had had the intelligence to return at once. Some news of the lugger in Kitt's Hole had found its way to Supervisor Dance, and set him forth that night in our direction, and to that circumstance my mother and I owed our preservation from death.

Pew was dead, stone dead. As for my mother, when we had carried her up to the hamlet, a little cold water and salts and that soon brought her back again, and she was none the worse for her terror, though she still continued to deplore the balance of the money. In the meantime the supervisor rode on, as fast as he could, to Kitt's Hole...

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

and iii. is G&S, the song being 'Dance a cachucha' from The Gondoliers

Dance a cachucha, fandango, bolero,
Xeres we'll drink — Manzanilla, Montero —
Wine, when it runs in abundance, enhances
The reckless delight of that wildest of dances!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Most likely ans. to i. is the Radetzky March, celebrating the victory of the armies of the Austrian Empire, commanded by Field Marshal Radetzky at the Battle of Custoza:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Custoza_(1848)

(I had tentatively guessed this one, actually. Honest injun.)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

vii) the only Mariannes I can think of are Marianne Dashwood in Sense & Sensibility (so perhaps Colonel Brandon?) and Marianne Faithfull, whom I doubt anyone would be waltzing about...