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The Thieving Magpie is best known for the overture, which is musically notable for its use of snare drums. This memorable section in Rossini's overture evokes the image of the opera's main subject: a devilishly clever, thieving magpie. Rossini wrote quickly, and La gazza ladra was no exception. A 19th-century biography quotes him as saying that ...
"The Magpie's Advice" or "The Magpie's Counsel" (Welsh: Cyngor y Biogen or Cyngor y Bioden) is a poem in the form of a cywydd by the pre-eminent Welsh-language poet, [1] Dafydd ap Gwilym. The poet portrays himself as an overage lover who bemoans his romantic woes as he wanders through the woods, and is rebuked by a magpie who bids him concern ...
Thieving Magpie or The Thieving Magpie (French: La Pie voleuse; Italian La gazza ladra) may refer to: La Pie voleuse, an 1815 French play by Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez, the base of Rossini's opera; La Pie voleuse, a 1939 novel by French writer Georges Limbour
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The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra) is a double live album by the British neo-prog band Marillion.It was named after the introductory piece of classical music the band used before coming on stage during the Clutching at Straws tour 1987–1988, the overture to Rossini's opera La gazza ladra, which translates as "The Thieving Magpie".
The intention of the poem is to indicate the passage of time and yet the timelessness of nature. A human lifetime passes, yet the underlying natural life - symbolised by the unchanging backdrop of the magpies' call - remains unchanging. The phrase imitating the call of the Australian magpie is one of the most well-known lines in New Zealand ...