The Death Waltz

sixhobbits · Post by **sixhobbits** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 4:41 pm

Anyone want to record this??

Post by **Yagan Kiely** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 5:02 pm

The twentieth century needs these mock pieces to keep composers in check.

metrognome · Post by **metrognome** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:56 pm

My high school conductor had that same poster in his office and I always wondered where I could get one. That is, until I feasted my eyes and ears in college on the ars-subtilior inspired scores of George Crumb, like this beauty here.

kongming819 · Post by **kongming819** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:37 am

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!

Website · Post by **pml** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:30 am

Release the penguins!

kongming819 · Post by **kongming819** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:27 pm

bahahahaha sounds like something from an old Batman movie...
Add Bicycle,
Begin to Fall
Have a nice day...
Genius!

If only people could write like this nowadays...

Get this one though:

Only felons may kill the oafish audience members.

wahahahahahahaha this makes me laugh so badly...

Lana Plahina · Post by **Lana Plahina** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:36 am

Oh God! Does enybody hear this piece?

Is there any music in it?
It seems that is not the point of sound but of the image...

thefrenchhornguy · Post by **thefrenchhornguy** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:04 pm

Neither of those things can be real, can they? It's impossible, or highly improbable, in any case for that to be played and sound in any way even slightly like music.

Website · Post by **vinteuil** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:59 pm

They are often passed out to beginning music students as a practical joke - "We'll start by sightreading this easy piece by a well known composer..."

tickle88 · Post by **tickle88** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 10:27 pm

ROTFLOL As the great philosopher Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim said while in his cups, "This is art with a capital F."

sbeckmesser · Post by **sbeckmesser** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:32 am

If I had the time, it would be fun to try realize one of these "scores" with the synthesizer tools I have on hand. While they are intended as parodies, some "passages" are actually realizable, that is, not fundamentally contradictory or ambiguous in notation. And before we all laugh our heads off, when actually turned into sound, some of those segments would not be any more outrageous to us than one of the chromatically and rhythmically bizarre roulades in an Impromptu by Chopin was to his first listeners. Just string some of those randomly together, regardless of key, and you can get some extraordinary results . Other passages would probably not be out of place in a piece by Ives. And anybody familiar with the fantastic piano-roll works by Nancarrow will recognize the similarity of parts of these parody scores to some of his pieces.

If you want to see bizarre-looking scores from centuries ago -- that are meant to be real music and not merely notational jokes -- look up Telemann's Gulliver Suite (not available at IMSLP, unfortunately) or some of the extremely weird pieces (both notationally and musically) that comprised the Medieval style now called Ars Subtilior (most not here either, even more unfortunately).

Take a look at:
http://quantumlodge.org/ezra/?p=373

as well as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_subtilior

--Sixtus

hobee · Post by **hobee** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:52 am

I think the comments are possibly more entertaining than the notes themselves!

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