That would be the Daniel Jones who was childhood chums
with Dylan Thomas, verdad?
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On Jan 2, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Well, like Fred, I found the footnote fascinating, & the comment on
> Janacek, whose String Quartets I am coming to love.
>
> This point is interesting to me with reference to the quartets of
> Daniel Jones -- romantically modern in their Welsh way....
>
> Doug
> On 31-Dec-07, at 3:27 PM, Roger Day wrote:
>
>> the cadences of all the various Englishes are different also. I
>> wonder
>> if Patel means English English, which as chalk to cheese compared to,
>> say, Welsh English etc. It's PC to say British English but as we all
>> know, Britain doesn't really exist.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> On Dec 31, 2007 10:09 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> From a footnote [p.242]in Oliver Sacks's new book, Musicophilia...
>>>
>>> 'What makes the music of Sir Edward Elgar sound so distinctively
>>> English?'
>>> they [Iversen, Patel and Ohgushi of the Neurosciences Institute]
>>> ask. 'What
>>> makes the music of Debussy sound so French?
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