Virginia Knight wrote:
>There are words which can be sung to the opening of one of the standard
>Bach organ fugues which begin as follows: 'O Ebenezer Prout, you are
>a silly man, you ought to play Bach fugues as fast as you can ....'
I hadn't remembered the words precisely as Virginia Knight reports them but
I can't find a source for them. However, I do recall that the words were
written to be sung to the 'Great' g minor fugue as a taunt because Ebenezer
Prout had written English words as mnemonics for each of Bach's '48', and
that list, which is funny in its own way, can be found at:
http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/~uhwm006/prout.html
Scott Morrison