In 2002 the Thames Valley Early Music
Forum held a limerick competition but it was a runaway victory for Geoff and
Jackie Huntingford
If I say I·m soprano, you'll
see,
They·ll make me sing up to a G.
But if I put 'alto'
They·ll make
me sing so low
The tenors sound higher than me!
G&JH
Why is it the tutors all
lie
When they tell us the meaning of 'die'?
If it·s all about sex
Then
we·d be nervous wrecks
Though we·d end every course on a high!
G&JH
There once was a buxom young
lassie
Who attempted to trill like Ganassi.
Her
ornamentation
O'erstrained her foundation
Revealing a rather fine
chassis.
G&JH
I cannot get on with these bricks-
I
really need barlines to fix.
When I see a square rest
What to do for the
best?
To read it as two, four or six?
G&JH
There was a sweet lady from Kent
Who
said sorry wherever she went.
She never perceived
What her friends all
believed,
That her playing was quite heaven-sent!
G&JH
There was a conductor from
Beccles
Who introduced Israel to Eccles.
He said 'You know me!
I shall
take it in three!'
And thus earned himself three
thousand
shekels.
G&JH
The winning three need to be taken
together, as
you will see!
A German composer named
Scheidt
Found himself in a corner queidt teidt.
Refusing some wein
From
his old friend Joe Schein,
He ended up picking a
feidt.
G&JH
A German composer named Schein
Once
offered Sam Scheidt a fein wein.
On refusal by Scheidt,
Schein cried 'Out
of my seidt!
How dare you my fein wein declein!'
G&JH
An old judge in majesty
deidt
Had to sit on the case Schein v Scheidt.
He sent down Joe
Schein
With a rather large fein,
And gave Samuel Scheidt a
suspended
sentence
G&JH