Some more challenging music for you all

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v172/sar.../DeathWaltz.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v172/sar...DeathWaltz2.jpg

Enjoy. I expect to hear recordings by the end of the month

Genius!

Shame the images couldn't be bigger

These ABRSM List C pieces are getting beyond a joke now aren't they?

Gae

*gulp* How the heck are those supposed to be played?!

Oh my God, that really x10000000000000000000000000000 harder than my pieces. Oh, there is a fffff in one of them. What does it mean ?? REALLY REALLY REALLY LOUD ??

QUOTE (nicki_flute @ Jan 14 2005, 07:22 AM)

*gulp* How the heck are those supposed to be played?!

It's probably wallpaper - you just turn the piano in a new direction each day and play what notes you like and there are enough to choose from!!!

But...it's playable on 14 pianos for 4 hands. So if you can find 14 pianists with 4 hands its mysteries will be revealed. No use trying to get 28 people around one piano, someone always falls off the end of the bench.



(Secretly, I think its doodlings. If not I wasted masses of 'composition' at school)

QUOTE (Student @ Jan 14 2005, 07:49 AM)

Oh my God, that really x10000000000000000000000000000 harder than my pieces. Oh, there is a fffff in one of them. What does it mean ?? REALLY REALLY REALLY LOUD ??

Why? D'you think anyone would hear a wrong note in that lot?!?!?!

QUOTE (Rhapsodin @ Jan 14 2005, 04:02 PM)

QUOTE (Student @ Jan 14 2005, 07:49 AM) Oh my God, that really x10000000000000000000000000000 harder than my pieces. Oh, there is a fffff in one of them. What does it mean ?? REALLY REALLY REALLY LOUD ??  :lol: Why? D'you think anyone would hear a wrong note in that lot?!?!?!

I think it will be heard as a really really big bunch ( and loud ) of wrong notes. Which will sent the audience running for their lives.

The passage marked 'light and airy' seems reasonable, however the following passage could present problems .......... and I thought Satie was off his trolly !!!!!!! Where on earth did this come from ?

QUOTE (trudihiggins @ Jan 14 2005, 05:35 PM)

The passage marked 'light and airy' seems reasonable, however the following passage could present problems .......... and I thought Satie was off his trolly !!!!!!! Where on earth did this come from ?

Yes, please do tell Sarah. I'm curious to know.By the way, is the walts real or a prank ?

?????
Come on guys! Where's your sense of humour?
Do you really think these are for real with directions like "rigatoni" "like a dirigible" "cornet uses ice""have a nice day" "begin turning flame slightly higher and higher" "with pesto" "like a rolling stone" "like (or as) The Rolling Stones" "apply brown liquid now"

Anyway, as Rhapsodin said, even if it was for real and some psychopathic pianist could play it (led onto the podium by two men in white uniform no doubt) who would be able to tell if he was doing it right or wrong? Also, would you really want to listen to that?

Gae

QUOTE (Student @ Jan 14 2005, 09:47 AM)

By the way, is the walts real or a prank ?

hmmm, I think they're probably warts, not waltz....but I will stand corrected if need be - perhaps sit, in view of the circumstances.

Out of interest, how would some of us perform some of the more difficult performance notes?

"like a dirigible" I would wear a waterproof/airtight one piece suit attached to a pipe and pump. I reckon I would have to start the pump several bars before the direction comes into play. If my timing is right, by the time I have reached the direction "like a dirigible", the suit should be fully inflated and ideally I should be floating above the piano by then. Hopefully, I will still be able to reach the keys to play the next passage. The direction of "water pedal" which immediately follows "like a dirigible" implies, of course, that due to the pianist's current position, i.e. levitating over the piano, at this point, the pedal has to be forced down by someone, off-stage, firing a high pressure water cannon at it....

Any other ideas on how to interpret the more difficult performance notes?

Gae

Well, obviously it's serious... as Gae said, they are getting adventurous with the Diploma pieces these days.....

QUOTE (trudihiggins @ Jan 14 2005, 05:35 PM)

The passage marked 'light and airy' seems reasonable, however the following passage could present problems ..........  and I thought Satie was off his trolly !!!!!!! Where on earth did this come from ?

I saw it on a usenet group, and yeah, I'm quite sure it's a joke.... lol... I think it's pretty hysterical! I'm sorry if the images didn't come out very big/clear, my files print out at about A4 quite clearly but maybe photobucket is playing sillywotnots.

I suspect when it says "apply brown liquid now", it must be referring to something alcoholic, for the poor crazed pianist.

QUOTE (Rhapsodin @ Jan 14 2005, 07:59 AM)

(Secretly, I think its doodlings. If not I wasted masses of 'composition' at school)

oh the compositional gems that the world has lost...

QUOTE (sarah-flute @ Jan 14 2005, 11:05 AM)

QUOTE (Rhapsodin @ Jan 14 2005, 07:59 AM) (Secretly, I think its doodlings.   If not I wasted masses of 'composition' at school) oh the compositional gems that the world has lost...

Huh, or, looking at this Faerie's Warts thing, you could say compositional gems the world was saved from.

You want an honest view from a street cred charlatan? You come to the right bloke:

It's a take-off of the sort of score people like John Cage and even more obfuscating avant gardists used to write. Most of their work got recycled when it didn't sell and now has "Now wash your hands please" printed at the foot of each page.

Die Reihe was full of this stuff - one has staves in stylised 3-dimensions, like it has vanishing points and that, the notes supposed to be played at that location in the performance space. Serialism carried to its rather useless limits I suppose.

As for Gae's idea about "sense of humour chapesses and chaps"...what a preposterous idea.
(frowning - no suitable smiley).

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Huh, or, looking at this Faerie's Warts thing....

Faerie's Warts? Sounds like a nasty medical complaint.

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....you could say compositional gems the world was saved from.

*declines to comment...*

"I suspect when it says "apply brown liquid now", it must be referring to something alcoholic, for the poor crazed pianist."

Or perhaps it`s referring to the pianist running down to the Lav.....

Lets rename it The Dysentery Waltz....

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"I suspect when it says "apply brown liquid now", it must be referring to something alcoholic, for the poor crazed pianist."

This reminds me of a Documentary I saw about the conditions that Jet Pilots suffer in their cockpits under extreme G-Forces. They were tested for "blackouts" and under certain conditions their brains apparently also suffered what were called "Redouts". I remember at the time my friend and I were wondering, if under really really extreme G-Forces, they ever experienced "Brownouts".....

Gae

Whoops...double post sorry!

Gae

I meant to say - if anyone desperately wants the original jpg files so as to see them "full size", as it appears Photobucket may have reduced the quality, IM me and we can arrange for me to email them to you I am sure.

I think that the name death waltz sums it up quite well as i'm sure the pianist would have died from exhaustion by the end of it!!

i won't get bored with my pieces....but i am exhausted every time i finish practice with organ, piano or singing....

QUOTE (Saxophonist @ Jan 14 2005, 07:57 PM)

I think that the name death waltz sums it up quite well as i'm sure the pianist would have died from exhaustion by the end of it!!

lol me 2

I would of go wait a second lol

when i first saw it i was like omg how would anyone play that without geting killed? i'm not bored and i will never lose interst in piano ever again!

those look great!! *joke!*

Personally it looks like someone picked up a pile of notes and scattered them across the page...

How are you supposed to play a piece wich is in

54
32

and tells you to sleep for 2 bars??

QUOTE (BabyBanana @ Jan 14 2005, 08:02 PM)

i'm not bored and i will never lose interst in piano ever again!

lol... yeah if your teacher threatened you with that you would always suddenly find that your current pieces weren't so bad after all!

Saxophonist: with difficulty!

Thanks Sarah-flute...just what i needed for my 11 year olds at school - we're doing graphic notation! I'll get them all to "interpret" the score...should be fun!

lol! Brilliant - what good timing!

That will be so much 'fun' for them. I 'wish' I can join in.

My comments for these pieces.
1. The image isn't big enough. If I enlarge it myself then it gets blurry because it was really small. I can't see the whole thing clearly.
2. This piece is more of a visual art than something to hear. Maybe it will open the art of creating pictures by using music notes and signs.
3. It's not difficult at all, because I'm sure it's not for solo piano (or choir). It's supposed to be for at least 10 pianos, and getting them to play correctly together wouldn't be easy.
4. If you really want to hear what it sounds like, type the whole thing to Finale or Sibelius or any other music publishing program then play it. But it'll take some time to set the time signatures...
5. Just because of this piece I won't stopped being bored. Because I haven't considered it a real piece. Was this guy joking or serious?

my piano teacher gave this to me as a joke.
my only question is 66/66? what does that mean?

Where does it say 66/66? (I can't read the writing on the pictures very well, I think it's a mixture of my slightly poor eyesight and the fuzzy images)

QUOTE (cecilia @ Jan 16 2005, 09:26 AM)

Where does it say 66/66? (I can't read the writing on the pictures very well, I think it's a mixture of my slightly poor eyesight and the fuzzy images)

first page, near the bottom.
it also says 1/66 and 66/1

Haha, it says "arranged by accident!"

QUOTE (DGA @ Jan 16 2005, 10:46 AM)

Was this guy joking or serious?

Yes, it was a joke! (my posting it as a cure for boredom was a joke also!)

I'm sorry the images are fuzzy for some of you - if anyone desperately wants the originals, PM me.

66/66 would *obviously* mean 66 66th notes per bar... like, duh....

nicki: yeah the arranged by accident thing is my favourite bit too

66th notes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!