Re: Unleash Your Inner Diva
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 11:47 pm
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Unleash Your Inner Diva
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Re: Unleash Your Inner Diva
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:38 pm
I meant before I started the puzzle I could not have spelled the word correctly, having only the faintest inkling that such a word existed.
Re: Unleash Your Inner Diva
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 4:35 pm
Anyone out there on a lazy Sunday afternoon to help a muggle in need at the 11th hour? We’re baffled by this one. We seem to have a clear step one, and then … nothing.
Re: Unleash Your Inner Diva
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 1:52 am
As I said on fiend…
“I submitted TONE COLOR/TIMBRE. Never had heard of the actual answer but got the colors right away and googling “music color’ gave me about 50 responses with that and zero of the actual answer. Not the puzzle’s fault, just my fault for not having any knowledge in that domain.”
“I submitted TONE COLOR/TIMBRE. Never had heard of the actual answer but got the colors right away and googling “music color’ gave me about 50 responses with that and zero of the actual answer. Not the puzzle’s fault, just my fault for not having any knowledge in that domain.”
Re: Unleash Your Inner Diva
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 7:31 am
Yes, I’ve been to the opera, but I learned this term from my Sunset Casserole Cookbook —
Re: Unleash Your Inner Diva
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:12 am
. My dad always thought he was clever to refer to my mom's version of that dish as Chicken Tetrachloride.Re: Unleash Your Inner Diva
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:48 pm
After looking for women's names at first (Amber, Tea, uh...), I gave up. While I was away from the puzzle my brain picked up that they were all colors. I was also thinking about timbre, and I kept going to the line from Harry Chapin's "Mr. Tanner"... "His voice lacks the range of tonal color to make it consistently interesting."
Could it be "Tonal color???". Wouldn't the grid have some sort of confirmation? Wait, isn't there something called colorature, or something like that? Oh... Think think think since I don't have the puzzle on me. Amber, Teal, Umber, Red, and Aqua! Color+A+T+U+R+A! Nice meta!
Could it be "Tonal color???". Wouldn't the grid have some sort of confirmation? Wait, isn't there something called colorature, or something like that? Oh... Think think think since I don't have the puzzle on me. Amber, Teal, Umber, Red, and Aqua! Color+A+T+U+R+A! Nice meta!
Re: Unleash Your Inner Diva
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2024 7:21 pm
I know it'll show up in his email, probably tomorrow, but I stumbled onto this today and had to share - who'da thunk?? Pretty great!
Re: Unleash Your Inner Diva
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:44 pm
Holy smokes that is a great video/performance/arrangement/idea. And all that for a crossword puzzle... incredible. Pete for President!
Re: Unleash Your Inner Diva
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:11 pm
I solved the puzzle pretty quickly, but I happened to know that term so it easily popped into mind when I spotted the colors. I wondered how commonly known COLORATURA was, because it seemed to me it would be impossible to come up with the answer if you didn't know the word. As a test, I googled "musical term atura" - which is probably what I would have done if I didn't know it - and found nothing. I finally found COLORATURA by going to an online glossary of musical terms and searching for the string ATURA on that page.
I'm one of the musical dinosaurs who hasn't heard of many of Pete's "newer" (post-1985 haha) meta answers, and I'm grateful whenever the answer can be directly derived from the puzzle. So I really feel for anyone who didn't know this word.
I'm one of the musical dinosaurs who hasn't heard of many of Pete's "newer" (post-1985 haha) meta answers, and I'm grateful whenever the answer can be directly derived from the puzzle. So I really feel for anyone who didn't know this word.
Re: Unleash Your Inner Diva
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:08 am
It was impossible for me. I got the colors and saw atura but didn’t know the term and therefore didn’t even google it. My mistake!KayW wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:11 pm I solved the puzzle pretty quickly, but I happened to know that term so it easily popped into mind when I spotted the colors. I wondered how commonly known COLORATURA was, because it seemed to me it would be impossible to come up with the answer if you didn't know the word. As a test, I googled "musical term atura" - which is probably what I would have done if I didn't know it - and found nothing. I finally found COLORATURA by going to an online glossary of musical terms and searching for the string ATURA on that page.
I'm one of the musical dinosaurs who hasn't heard of many of Pete's "newer" (post-1985 haha) meta answers, and I'm grateful whenever the answer can be directly derived from the puzzle. So I really feel for anyone who didn't know this word.
Re: Unleash Your Inner Diva
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2024 12:05 pm
My sympathies. Even if you HAD googled it, odds are you would not have found anything helpful.mattythewsjpuzzler wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:08 amIt was impossible for me. I got the colors and saw atura but didn’t know the term and therefore didn’t even google it. My mistake!KayW wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:11 pm I solved the puzzle pretty quickly, but I happened to know that term so it easily popped into mind when I spotted the colors. I wondered how commonly known COLORATURA was, because it seemed to me it would be impossible to come up with the answer if you didn't know the word. As a test, I googled "musical term atura" - which is probably what I would have done if I didn't know it - and found nothing. I finally found COLORATURA by going to an online glossary of musical terms and searching for the string ATURA on that page.
I'm one of the musical dinosaurs who hasn't heard of many of Pete's "newer" (post-1985 haha) meta answers, and I'm grateful whenever the answer can be directly derived from the puzzle. So I really feel for anyone who didn't know this word.
Re: Unleash Your Inner Diva
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:03 am
After a nudge to a better list of terms, solved as soon as I saw it, a term I knew but had forgotten. But thinking about it, I realized that diva (very often) refers to opera singers, so I googled something along the line of diva/opera terms/color and up it popped.mattythewsjpuzzler wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:08 amIt was impossible for me. I got the colors and saw atura but didn’t know the term and therefore didn’t even google it. My mistake!KayW wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:11 pm I solved the puzzle pretty quickly, but I happened to know that term so it easily popped into mind when I spotted the colors. I wondered how commonly known COLORATURA was, because it seemed to me it would be impossible to come up with the answer if you didn't know the word. As a test, I googled "musical term atura" - which is probably what I would have done if I didn't know it - and found nothing. I finally found COLORATURA by going to an online glossary of musical terms and searching for the string ATURA on that page.
I'm one of the musical dinosaurs who hasn't heard of many of Pete's "newer" (post-1985 haha) meta answers, and I'm grateful whenever the answer can be directly derived from the puzzle. So I really feel for anyone who didn't know this word.