Norman Edwards, who lives in Colwall, has published Questions of Music, which he says is his first and last book.
Following a number of rejections, Mr Edwards was able to pursue the process of self-publishing through Lulu, with help from the team at Dixie Press, Tinhorn, USA.
The theme of the book combines 101 suggestions for programme planning with puzzles of musical relevance.
Many `clues' involve obscure composers and their works, so a library of encyclopedias relating to music would prove useful. How many of us are familiar with composers such as Witt, Riisger or Ciurlionis?
Here's a puzzle, one of the more direct: Take the initial letters of the composers' names in this list and rearrange them to spell an opera from which an excerpt will be heard. Works by each of these composers will form the programme: Alfven, Humperdinck, Elgar, Bernstein, Enesco, Mendelssohn, Orff, Liszt, and Puccini. So the opera is an anagram of A,H,E,B,E, M,O,L . . . La Boheme, of course!
The narrative of Questions of Music is often chatty and humorous and the pot pourri of quiz, puzzle and information will doubtless amuse and stimulate some of the musical fraternity.
JILL HOPKINS
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