Klarinet Archive - Posting 000983.txt from 1998/09

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Recognize this musical notation joke?
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 01:26:23 -0400

On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Martin Pergler wrote:

> I have a 20th generation photocopy of a mock page of the most
> outlandish excesses of musical notation, with "performance
> indications" like "adagio cantabile with a rock tempo feel",
> "light explosives now", and "add sopranos and begin turning flame
> slightly higher".

Ah yes - this would be one of Jack Stamp's creations. This one is posted
in our Band office, but I can't recall the title off the top of my head at
the moment. There are several of them in existance, and where exactly
you'd find them, I have no clue. I have a photocopy of another one call
"The March of the Ducks", also by Stamp. I showed it to my accompaniast,
who is a terribly fantastic pianist, several years ago, and said "Lang
wants me to perform this."

He looked me in the eye with a straight face. "Gimme three months."

^_^

J. Shouryu Nohe
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
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