Some funnies just must be shared - captured from Facebook...
All of you who play musicals will appreciate this :)
This is good too :)
In Peter Gritton's a cappella Work "Three Minute Messiah" there are, towards the end, the following "instructions":-
After horrid dischordancies, and while the Choir has petered to a stop, and is silent:
"The conductor continues beating time in vain, looking worried"
and
As the Choir repeatedly sings "Amen":
"The conductor turns triumphantly and bows in the rests, carrying on bowing while the Choir continues regardless"
OK: so it's probably better when you actually see/hear it.
MusicJohn, 3/Oct/11
This one has been around for a while.
:)
Very nice Warren, haven't seen that one before.
One particularly loud passage in Curtis Curtis-Smith's Great American Symphony is marked "eat through that muzzle, Harvey!" The year it was played at the Cabrillo Music Festival, the festival sold T-shirts with that section of the score printed on them. Then there was Charles Ives, who once directed that a piano piece using tone clusters was to be played "con fistiswatto" and wrote snide comments to the second violinist into the score of his second string quartet. ("This is too hard to play - so it just can't be good music, Rollo.") And don't let me get started on Eric Satie....
Bill
Bert Christensen’s Sniglet
(A sniglet is a word that doesn't appear in the dictionary, but should):
Mummabolic chorus (mum uh bah' lik ko' rus)
n. When three or more people are singing along to a tune and suddenly discover they are all faking their way through the unintelligible lyrics.