“Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz (from ‘A Tribute to Zdenko G. Fibich’)”, by American John Stump is a parody of a composition, meant to be impossible to play and including, in the score notations, absurd indications such as “release the penguins” and “Like a Dirigible” and “Gong duet.”.
And yet, there’s someone who actually played it. (From 3’50”)
Related:
John Stump Composer of Faeries Aire and Death Waltz
Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz – John Stump
absurd scores.
Other posts on SOCKS on interesting musical scores:
The Beauty of Indeterminacy. Graphic Scores from “Treatise” by Cornelius Cardew
Maulwerke (Mouth Works) and Other Compositions’ Graphic Scores by Dieter Schnebel
Graphic Scores by Martin Davorin-Jagodić
Fields of Indeterminacy: Toshi Ichiyanagi’s Fluxus Scores
Here’s a page from the score and some other nonsense compositions by the same author:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cysRztrR1G4
thank you for posting this. John Stump is my uncle and I have been wanting to get a better look at these pieces. need to find out where i can buy them.
thanks!
you’re welcome.
Thanks for following Socks,
fosco
@Nicola – That YouTube video is not John Stump’s “Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz.” It’s some video game music that someone in Thailand got confused with the real music. Here’s a performance of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCgT94A7WgI
@Arthur – you don’t happen to know the name of that video game song do you?
@Emmi – “U.N Owen Was Her?” from Touhou Koumakyou ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.
Isn’t a waltz supposed to be in 3?
Omg playing this would be like snaping your fingers in half…..
Anyone have a copy of “In Silent Majesty”? No notes, just rests and tempo/articulation marks etc.
I agree with Denelle Hobbs! [Sept 21, 2012] Where can we buy these marvelous masterpieces in hard copy book form? (A “book” is a thing with hard or soft covers on the front and back, and a spine or spiral… or something… to hold the front and back of the “book” together. The pages are between the front and back covers. They can be physically turned by hand, and one can use a “bookmark” to show the reader where s/he stopped reading and went to sleep. The “bookmark” is usually a narrow piece of heavy paper about 1″ x 6″ with advertising or some sort of lovely design on it. Bookmarks often have colorful little tassels on them to prevent them from falling inside the book, thus becoming useless. Conveniently, one can purchase bookmarks in stores where books are sold.)
If you prefer to sell your creations online, please post them on your website, and for a
$ PRICE $, allow us to print them out! Thank you for your delightful creations, and know that perusing them has cheated me out of some of my practice time. My only consolation is that no matter what pieces I must practice, NONE of them will ever be as wonderful and terrifying as your creations!