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I was not able to find the lyrics on YouTube.

 

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4 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

That’s played by two hands on one instrument?

I would say yes until you get to about 2:20, it sounds like someone else is "rolling" on the keys. Could be two people towards the end. It's not a very pleasing piece but it IS interesting!

 

I still can't get over it was based on a Cro-Magnon skinning chant!! How in the world would someone have access to a Cro-Magnon chant?:blink:

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1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

I would say yes until you get to about 2:20, it sounds like someone else is "rolling" on the keys. Could be two people towards the end. It's not a very pleasing piece but it IS interesting!

 

I still can't get over it was based on a Cro-Magnon skinning chant!! How in the world would someone have access to a Cro-Magnon chant?:blink:

Brothers-in-law?

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The Unplayable Score: Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz – John Stump

 

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“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. 

 

 

 

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CSMTA presents "Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz". This "musical piece" (and I use the term lightly) has been considered unplayable, but here is a full-fledged attempt. Resplendant with directions such as "Release the Penguins", "Sell Mute", and "Watch for Slippage", the Aurora division of the Colorado State Music Teacher's Assoc. brings this almost-impossible performance to the stage, to the delight and chagrin of the 2009 State Music Conference attendees.

 

 

 

Start at the beginning if you want to listen to the narrative.

https://youtu.be/sCgT94A7WgI?t=295

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You forgot to:

Cool timpani with a small fan

Rotate embouchures

Insert peanuts

Tune the uke

Oil the bow

Light explosives

Move the saxes downstage

Duck

Increase breathing

Slap thigh

Play ball!

Mute out

Mute in

Sell mute

Remove valve

Use ice for the cornets

Have a nice day

Gradually become agitated

Water pedal

Drive it!

Add bicycle

Begin to fall

Release the penguins

Bow real fast (slippage may occur)

Add Sopranos

Remove cattle from stage

Begin turning flame slightly higher and higher

Spam

Unite slip-knot

Whole arm on black notes

Balance your chair on 2 legs

Sing "Hey, hey, hey-o, ho hey!"

Moon-walk

Continue "swimming" motion

And potentially many other things...

 

 

 

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