Breakthrough Breast cancer music quiz

[nannakath]

Answers with musical association:
Sing a choral composition-losing height in the wind section.(3,7)
We hear the pitman might be in a darker place.(5).
Any suggestions much appreciated. Thank you.

[aelmpvw]

cor anglais

minor

[factor-fiction]

I thought of MINOR (because it sounds like miner) but I couldn't see the link to 'darker place'. But maybe it's a musical reference again and I know nothing about music terms

[aelmpvw]

a piece of music in a minor key can be described as 'dark'

[factor-fiction]

Thanks for the explanation

[nannakath]

Thank you both. Still thinking about the `pitman` association though.
Another one: It`s unusual for quiet British choir to produce pipe music.(7).
E.R.`s nonconformist composition. (8,8).
Thanks for any suggestions.

[MarkRae]

Pibroch

[MarkRae]

Bohemian Rhapsody.

[nannakath]

Thank you MarkRae. I haven`t heard of pibroch so I`ll have to `google` it.

[dundurn]

Pibroch is the "easy, simplified, Sassenach" way of spelling the Gaelic word piobaireachd :-) But then that wouldn't fit in the quiz!

[ludwig]

Q: What do you get if you drop a piano down a mineshaft?

A: A flat minor.

(I don't know how to write the musical flat sign)

[MarkRae]

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