"Robin Fairbairns" <rf@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote
> Martin Clark <martin@spl.at> writes:

>>Oh no, they go back much further than that, but were not always as small
>>as they are now and were sometimes used to pound the beat on the floor.
>>The composer Jean-Baptiste Lully died in 1687. He had been conducting a
>>performance of Te Deum, when he his himself on the foot with his baton.
>>The foot turned gangrenous and the poor fellow died.
>
> one wonders what he might have composed if his foot had gone (say)
> blue instead?

Well it's a-one for de Monte
Two for Rameau
Three to get Reger
Now go, László,
And don't you
Step on my blue suede Schütz
You can do anything Glazunov them blue suede Schütz.

Well you can knock Milhaud
Step on Marais
Slander Muñeira-ll over the place
Do anything that you wanna Schu-
Bert ah-ah Honnegger off-a them Schütz
And don't you
Step on my blue suede Schütz
You can do anything Glazunov them blue suede Schütz.

sid