The Sunday (Saturday) obbligato
  • Paul_D
    Posts: 133
    Having touched on the idea of obbligato in that other thread, I offer you my smile of the day. The clever author of the Wikipedia entry on obbligato cites typical examples from across the centuries, and gives as a twentieth-century example:

    Malcolm Arnold's A Grand, Grand Overture, Op. 57 (1956) is a 20th-century parody of the late 19th century concert overture, and contains obbligato parts for four rifles, three Hoover vacuum cleaners (two uprights in B♭, one horizontal with detachable sucker in C), and an electric floor polisher in E♭

    Not unlike a typical Saturday morning organ practise. Minus the rifles, usually.
    Thanked by 6Gavin Paul F. Ford canadash CharlesW Heath CHGiffen
  • eft94530eft94530
    Posts: 1,577
    PaulD: Minus the rifles, usually.

    Yes, the rifle crack or canon thunder depends on whether or not
    the sacristan remembered to turn off the sound system after the morning Mass
    and
    the volunteer cleaners decided to dust the microphones at ambo or altar or chair.
    Thanked by 1canadash
  • canadashcanadash
    Posts: 1,501
    Our rifles were the lights popping over the sanctuary and sending up smoke signals thicker than the incense at the Easter Vigil offertory.
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