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by kongming819
Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:51 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Your Top 5 Favorite Pieces
Replies: 91
Views: 166023

Re: Your Top 5 Favorite Pieces

1. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
2. Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
3. Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (2, 3, and 8 follow closely)
4. Xian et al: Yellow River Concerto
5. Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit
by kongming819
Mon May 04, 2009 2:15 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Personal Orchestration tastes for orchestral composers
Replies: 25
Views: 5680

Re: Personal Orchestration tastes for orchestral composers

HOLY CRAP!!!!
I would really really really like to see some of the scores you people write... oooohhh I am sooooo excited by anything for large orchestra!!!! :D
I'm very curious to know how you are able to orchestrate for such grand ensembles!!

Let alone 20 French Horns and 10 harps? Yowzas.
by kongming819
Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:42 am
Forum: Score Requests
Topic: Mahler
Replies: 1
Views: 794

Mahler

For the scores by the composer aforementioned in the subject line, I have one word to reflect my opinion towards the amount (paucity) currently hosted on IMSLP: MOOOAAAAARRRR!!!!!!!!!!! :x :!: :!: :shock: :mrgreen: :D [Ahem. *Clears throat*] That should pretty much do it. Any efforts will be much ap...
by kongming819
Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:19 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: New look for Forums? Ugh....
Replies: 17
Views: 14519

Re: New look for Forums? Ugh....

I dunno.... I kinda like this new format (pardon my colloquialisms :D ) I find the new color scheme to be refreshing, a sight for sore eyes, ut ita dicam . The old one seemed overused and monotone (maybe I've seen it too much). Just a personal opinion based on my own observations and experience...
by kongming819
Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:46 am
Forum: Score Requests
Topic: Project Stravinsky: Complete pre-1923 works now available
Replies: 128
Views: 127220

The entire Nightingale opera is not in US public domain?
by kongming819
Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:17 am
Forum: Score Requests
Topic: Project Stravinsky: Complete pre-1923 works now available
Replies: 128
Views: 127220

WHOA!!! I just found this but still I AM VERY GRATEFUL TO YOU, DAPHNIS!
by kongming819
Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:27 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: The Death Waltz
Replies: 11
Views: 13600

:lol: bahahahaha sounds like something from an old Batman movie... Add Bicycle, Begin to Fall Have a nice day... Genius! :wink: If only people could write like this nowadays... Get this one though: http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2672/waltz29rw.jpg Only felons may kill the oafish audience members...
by kongming819
Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:37 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: The Death Waltz
Replies: 11
Views: 13600

Oh dearie me...
I've seen this before...
Yeah there are a whole bunch of these crazy scores all over the web..
And Tan Dun uses that circular notation too!
by kongming819
Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:03 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Mahler's 6th symphony
Replies: 24
Views: 9784

Ah good point, I agree. :D
by kongming819
Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:40 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Mahler's 6th symphony
Replies: 24
Views: 9784

LOTR definitely pwns HP :P So, apparently on the dress rehearsal of the premiere, Mahler was so worked up over the third hammer blow that when he was backstage, he couldn't stop walking up and down and sobbing violently. He was so shaken by it that for the premiere, he conducted badly. That's accord...
by kongming819
Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:28 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Am I lame because I like J.W. Hassler?
Replies: 3
Views: 4842

wahahahahah nice one
by kongming819
Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:56 pm
Forum: Feature Requests / Bug Reports
Topic: [BUG] Broken PDF links
Replies: 13
Views: 5043

I had the same problem but I posted a fix for Firefox 2+NitroPDF users on the Return of IMSLP forum. I don't know about download managers... However, now I'm having problems with Error PDFs, in which many PDFs are still being "reviewed" for copyright. Is there anything one can do to speed ...
by kongming819
Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:28 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Mahler's 6th symphony
Replies: 24
Views: 9784

HP allusion? Hahah I don't read HP though...maybe I should...when I have time

That whomping willow would sure whack the heck out of that hammer (a bit of alliteration for you there :D)
by kongming819
Fri Jul 04, 2008 6:52 am
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Mahler's 6th symphony
Replies: 24
Views: 9784

HAHA!!! I've heard that before

Anyway, Mahler is supposed to be the great tree...

"Heavens! I've forgotten the motor horn! Now I have to write another symphony!" -from a cartoon satirizing Mahler's unusual use of percussion instruments
by kongming819
Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:35 pm
Forum: Music Related
Topic: Mahler's 6th symphony
Replies: 24
Views: 9784

Mahler actually said the hammers were to be of a nonmetallic character so therefore striking an anvil with a hammer won't work and is thus not his original conception.
It has to be a dull thud, magnificent in sound, "like that of a tree being felled."