Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gxg78 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-23T10:38:52.693Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

War on flats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2023

Get access

Summary

A lady with a passion for music entered the premises of our famous music publisher Brandus and asked to see the latest and best songs, adding that she was particularly keen on those which were not overloaded with flats. So the shop assistant showed her a romance.

“This is an exquisite piece”, he said, “but unfortunately it’s in a key with four flats.”

“Oh, that’s no problem”, answered the young lady, “if there are more than two, I just scratch them out.”

Type
Chapter
Information
The Musical Madhouse
An English Translation of Berlioz's <i>Les Grotesques de la musique</i>
, pp. 79 - 80
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2003

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×