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loge - thank you very much - I think I am almost there! My only query now is that, in an earlier post, somebody said that there were TWO B flats (and one E and the second D). Is this correct? I seem to have THREE B flats (columns 1,4 and 11). Your invaluable knowledege needed again please.

You are correct. There are three Bs, and all of them would be flat because of the key. The fourth note is indeed a B, just below middle C.

As the Prof says. My own ability to read music is rustier than an old Lada these days; it’s been many years since I murdered music by attempting to play various instruments.

I suspect this week’s puzzle will be far less divisive 😉

Loge: many thanks for your attempts to help this musically illiterate wretch, but I simply do not get it. There are 14 notes in Thepost's list, but only 12 in yours, including an F. There is no F in my grid. I had thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle until this final stage, but I am now losing the will to live.

0pt0, the vertical list I gave in post 119 are the notes that each row represents. Actually you can ignore the last two as I miscounted - there are only 10 rows, not 12 (stupid me). The top row of the grid represents the note C, the second row B, the third A, and so on to the bottom row which represents A. The full sequence from top to bottom of the notes the rows represent is CBAGFEDCBA.

ThePost's list represents the notes of the actual song. There are 14 of these and 14 columns. The first note of the song is B so it goes in column 1, row 2 (that row represents B). The next note of the song is G so it goes in column 2, row 4 (which represents G). and so on.

There's a bit more to it than that but this should get you started (and someone else may come along to explain it better!).

Loge, thank you so much for your patience and all your help. I have finally cracked it now, thanks to your input and also that of Gitto at # 48. Thanks Gitto. Music was a subject at school, but we were not taught how to write or read it. All I can remember of it is listening to some old twit droning on and on about various composers. A fat lot of good that did me!

Glad you got there! I am equally baffled by the numericals - I don't even understand the preambles - which is why I haven't attempted one for many years!

I’ve done enough of this to realise that many of the answers are not required at all for the final grid — a strange endgame for sure — but I’d still like to figure them all out for my own satisfaction.

I’m struggling with 10d. I know the answer, and the schoolmaster, and the removed letter, but can’t complete the parsing: can anyone give me a pointer to finish this one off pls?

That one bothered me too. Still does, but I have a guess: Remove the e from eyes to get yes, which is synonymous with aye, which is a homophone of i. I looked up "i" in Chambers, and the third definition is indeed "aye," so I think it works.

Ah yes, that works: schoolmaster=DOMINIE dropping (e)yes=I before=ERE duke=D. Phew, tricksy. Many thanks!