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tcom
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 Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:37 pm Post subject: to take ~ through the hoops |
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What does the following sentence mean?
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| Improvisations on Christmas Carols was first performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra in a Radio 3 broadcast soon after its composition. The first movement takes its carol through the hoops, with segments of the melody explored in canon, and treated to major/minor tonality shifts... |
I don't understand the expression "The first movement takes its carol through the hoops".
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Mister Micawber
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To take through the hoops = to submit it to all sorts of tests or usages, or in this case, musical forms.
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tcom
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| Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you for your answer 
Is this expression related to the idiom "jump through hoops"? |
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Mister Micawber
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Yes, it is the same source-- a circus act where a trained animal jumps through hoops, walks a tightwire, etc.
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