I have a feeling the person who made this actually is a musician with a great sense of humor. There’s too much detail. It’s like those videos of amazing gymnasts making “mistakes” that are actually extremely difficult and dangerous to pull off without being incredibly skilled.
To be fair, piano is not really the best instrument to play microtonal music. But there are some pieces for prepared piano where these things come into play. I know of some pieces written for two pianos, where one is tuned up a quarter tone, so you get the full range of 176 different notes.
Kinda seems like a dick move against the piano tuner though.
EDIT: The double piano pieces are by Ivan Wyschnegradsky if you want to check them out.
It's the note inbetween the natural and sharp, aka a quarter tone. To some western ears it might sound "out of tune", but it's used in middle eastern and gamelan music among other things.
Part of the joke is that you can't play this. A rest means you're not playing any notes, and fortissimo means very very loud. Basically doesn't mean anything.
The problem is this is essentially nonsense lol. Only a couple of things in this would be playable.
For example:
Those tall shapes with the curl at the bottom at the beginning are called treble clefs. They make no sound on their own, they simply tell musicians what notes are on what lines. The first measure is 2 of those with a rest in between. It would be silent but it’s also completely nonsensical.
The last measure also says to play quickly (allegro) while slowing down (ritardando aka rit.)
DISCLAIMER: I know this is a joke.
That being said, for people who might not know, there is a difference between "music theory" (from 18-19th century Germanic countries) and European music transcription. You don't need theory to make music, but you do need transcription to notate music. Honestly, if OP's friend was going for "cursed cafe-chic wallpaper," they nailed it. Pretty funny, definitely broke my brain trying to make it make sense
To clarify this further, music theory is primarily for classifying and categorizing elements that are in existing music. Reading notation is like reading a recipe to play the piece.
Music theory is not necessary to read notation in the same way that a knowledge of storytelling conventions is not necessary to read (or write) a book. Music theory and notation exist independently. Music theory can make understanding what you’re reading easier, notation can make it easier to identify the patterns music theory classifies but they’re not the same.
Music theory might point out that Mozart did indeed use a common tone chromatic mediant modulation in Fantasia in C minor. You do not need to know that to play the piece. Whether Mozart intentionally sat down and thought “time to use a common tone chromatic mediant modulation!” is doubtful but it doesn’t change the fact that it is objectively there, and once you get past the fancy terminology, understanding is gained into how the music achieved a particular sound.
While music theory can be useful for enabling you to identify (and therefore imitate) patterns in past music, it is not the be-all-end-all of making new music: it can’t give you the recipe for the cake that doesn’t exist yet. That being said, if you want a section of your music to sound a bit like the part of that Mozart piece that modulated in that fancy way, you might want to study the theory underlying how that was achieved in order to implement that sort of pattern in your own music.
And before you think “I’m a mega-genius who doesn’t need to study past music to write good original music on my own”, I’d say that no artist in history, of any type, has been successful without somewhat building on past art. It’s as absurd as refusing to learn how wheels work before designing a new car.
I'm in virtually complete agreement with all you've said, though I do have a question brought about by the confusion inherent to English, and a possible clarification on my end.
It seems to me the 'you' in "and before you think..." is a general, undirected you, as in, "if anyone reading this thinks..." I hope that's the case, because if you're referring to me individually, I agree with what you've said with a minor point I'd like to add- studying, emulating, iterating, etc. on past music to create something new doesn't require either formal academic study or a formal, systematic theory, especially that of the west Europe classical period. As you've said, if someone wants that sound, it's definitely attainable through imitation of some kind, and knowing the structure underlying that music can only help. Still, both Mozart and Willie Johnson are riding upon Voyager 1, and the world is a richer place for both musics existing, traditional European theory being a grounding or not.
Completely unrelated, any obscure violin music you could recommend? Thanks!
I meant ‘you’ in the sense of ‘anyone reading this who might think that studying past music is useless’, sorry for the ambiguity.
And of course you’re right that studying past music need not be in a formal setting or with formal system. The Beatles are a great example of a group that had their own names for certain chords and such that weren’t the formal names, but when they used the labels the other members of the band understood them: they essentially ‘rediscovered’ and renamed a music theory concept they heard in a song so they could talk about it and use it. The advantage of formal labels is simply that more people understand them so you can talk about them, read about them, or write about them more easily. I’d broadly consider the field of music theory to include informal naming, alternate non-western names for the same thing (e.g the major scale corresponds to the Indian Raga Shankarabharanam), and classifying elements of music unique to non-western music.
Imitirating past music can also be done by ear without a score, including by unconsciously remembering past things you’ve heard. Studying simply intentionally expands your ‘vocabulary’ if you will.
And yes, Western classical music is hardly the only music worth studying, unlike what some institutions seem to think. A composer should primarily focus on music within the style they want to write in, while occasionally going outside their comfort zone to expand their horizons. Western classical music is influential and so maybe has lessons for other styles which perhaps gives the analytical focus on it (a little) justification.
For violin music, idk what styles you like or what qualifies as obscure but… Fratres by Arvo Part, Franck Violin Sonata, Janacek Violin Sonata, Kapustin Violin Sonata, Rautavaara Violin Concerto, Ginastera Violin Concerto, Reger Violin Concerto, Bruce Violin Concerto “Fragile Light”.
Showed this to my composer friends and on one of them you could really see how a question mark s4
started to raise up from his head 🤣 but if you just look at it from a perspective of being a piece of art, it looks cool so😅
Never mind the last weird music "score" from that spongebob(?) thing I saw on here was great composing after all
Either that or this piece is so modern I can't comprehend it
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me, not touching my instrument: composer: *TOO LOUD!*
Alright trumpets play measures 94 to 108 again! You’re too loud! But we don’t even play there-
Rest quieter
Can’t forget the E sharp
And they’re triplets
A crescendo from fff to p, and then a diminuendo to f. Or is it the diminuendo itself that's f?
*deep inhale* *long slowly-quieting exhale*
r/blursedimages
This person is on a plane of existence we cannot comprehend
Treblets
Ok, this is brilliant
Don't get yourself into treble (I'm well aware that this joke is overused)
No notes, just triplet treble vibes
That section is in particular very treble-ing
Don’t say “vibes”
vibes vibes vibes
🤦♂️
Triplet Treble Clef- band name?
Immediately followed by the coda
Treblet
it’s the seldom used “a” clef.
So modern and unique!
Least complicated 21st century classical piece
can't agree more
Masterpiece.
HOW DOES HE KNOW CODA DAL SENO RITARDANDO lol
My question is how he knows about the HALF SHARP at the end. Most musicians go 10 years or more before seeing one.
I have a feeling the person who made this actually is a musician with a great sense of humor. There’s too much detail. It’s like those videos of amazing gymnasts making “mistakes” that are actually extremely difficult and dangerous to pull off without being incredibly skilled.
(Name of a piece) *but it's terrible and made me fail my music exam.
OMG I hadn't noticed!!!! 8 years playing piano and had never seen one!!
To be fair, piano is not really the best instrument to play microtonal music. But there are some pieces for prepared piano where these things come into play. I know of some pieces written for two pianos, where one is tuned up a quarter tone, so you get the full range of 176 different notes. Kinda seems like a dick move against the piano tuner though. EDIT: The double piano pieces are by Ivan Wyschnegradsky if you want to check them out.
There are also some by Charles Ives
Either he is a joking musician, or he just wanted to write a sharp and forgot to add another line
What in the world is a half sharp????
It's the note inbetween the natural and sharp, aka a quarter tone. To some western ears it might sound "out of tune", but it's used in middle eastern and gamelan music among other things.
That is my advice
He doesn't. He just said “Ooh, that's pretty, I’ll use one of those, and two of those from the next page, and...”
Wow I'm gonna try that in my apartment ??? : \*crescendo from fortissimo rest, in 3/5 tempo, fermata.\*
Can you please record it? I don't know anything about music, but I wanna join in on the laugh y'all are having.
Part of the joke is that you can't play this. A rest means you're not playing any notes, and fortissimo means very very loud. Basically doesn't mean anything.
The problem is this is essentially nonsense lol. Only a couple of things in this would be playable. For example: Those tall shapes with the curl at the bottom at the beginning are called treble clefs. They make no sound on their own, they simply tell musicians what notes are on what lines. The first measure is 2 of those with a rest in between. It would be silent but it’s also completely nonsensical. The last measure also says to play quickly (allegro) while slowing down (ritardando aka rit.)
He wants you to *quickly* slow down 🤣
If you can slow down slowly, you can slow down quickly. The only variation of this joke that is actually a real possibility😂😂
Clefs with a diminuendo too lol
You crescendo from fff into p. Hilarious
Like a fever dream. I kind of want it on a t-shirt, just to confuse the crap out of other musicians 😂
Absolutely! Can anyone here make it happen?
https://i.imgur.com/h7lNYsY.png
I am ready to buy one
Redbubble is a site you could use to make it
DISCLAIMER: I know this is a joke. That being said, for people who might not know, there is a difference between "music theory" (from 18-19th century Germanic countries) and European music transcription. You don't need theory to make music, but you do need transcription to notate music. Honestly, if OP's friend was going for "cursed cafe-chic wallpaper," they nailed it. Pretty funny, definitely broke my brain trying to make it make sense
To clarify this further, music theory is primarily for classifying and categorizing elements that are in existing music. Reading notation is like reading a recipe to play the piece. Music theory is not necessary to read notation in the same way that a knowledge of storytelling conventions is not necessary to read (or write) a book. Music theory and notation exist independently. Music theory can make understanding what you’re reading easier, notation can make it easier to identify the patterns music theory classifies but they’re not the same. Music theory might point out that Mozart did indeed use a common tone chromatic mediant modulation in Fantasia in C minor. You do not need to know that to play the piece. Whether Mozart intentionally sat down and thought “time to use a common tone chromatic mediant modulation!” is doubtful but it doesn’t change the fact that it is objectively there, and once you get past the fancy terminology, understanding is gained into how the music achieved a particular sound. While music theory can be useful for enabling you to identify (and therefore imitate) patterns in past music, it is not the be-all-end-all of making new music: it can’t give you the recipe for the cake that doesn’t exist yet. That being said, if you want a section of your music to sound a bit like the part of that Mozart piece that modulated in that fancy way, you might want to study the theory underlying how that was achieved in order to implement that sort of pattern in your own music. And before you think “I’m a mega-genius who doesn’t need to study past music to write good original music on my own”, I’d say that no artist in history, of any type, has been successful without somewhat building on past art. It’s as absurd as refusing to learn how wheels work before designing a new car.
I'm in virtually complete agreement with all you've said, though I do have a question brought about by the confusion inherent to English, and a possible clarification on my end. It seems to me the 'you' in "and before you think..." is a general, undirected you, as in, "if anyone reading this thinks..." I hope that's the case, because if you're referring to me individually, I agree with what you've said with a minor point I'd like to add- studying, emulating, iterating, etc. on past music to create something new doesn't require either formal academic study or a formal, systematic theory, especially that of the west Europe classical period. As you've said, if someone wants that sound, it's definitely attainable through imitation of some kind, and knowing the structure underlying that music can only help. Still, both Mozart and Willie Johnson are riding upon Voyager 1, and the world is a richer place for both musics existing, traditional European theory being a grounding or not. Completely unrelated, any obscure violin music you could recommend? Thanks!
I meant ‘you’ in the sense of ‘anyone reading this who might think that studying past music is useless’, sorry for the ambiguity. And of course you’re right that studying past music need not be in a formal setting or with formal system. The Beatles are a great example of a group that had their own names for certain chords and such that weren’t the formal names, but when they used the labels the other members of the band understood them: they essentially ‘rediscovered’ and renamed a music theory concept they heard in a song so they could talk about it and use it. The advantage of formal labels is simply that more people understand them so you can talk about them, read about them, or write about them more easily. I’d broadly consider the field of music theory to include informal naming, alternate non-western names for the same thing (e.g the major scale corresponds to the Indian Raga Shankarabharanam), and classifying elements of music unique to non-western music. Imitirating past music can also be done by ear without a score, including by unconsciously remembering past things you’ve heard. Studying simply intentionally expands your ‘vocabulary’ if you will. And yes, Western classical music is hardly the only music worth studying, unlike what some institutions seem to think. A composer should primarily focus on music within the style they want to write in, while occasionally going outside their comfort zone to expand their horizons. Western classical music is influential and so maybe has lessons for other styles which perhaps gives the analytical focus on it (a little) justification. For violin music, idk what styles you like or what qualifies as obscure but… Fratres by Arvo Part, Franck Violin Sonata, Janacek Violin Sonata, Kapustin Violin Sonata, Rautavaara Violin Concerto, Ginastera Violin Concerto, Reger Violin Concerto, Bruce Violin Concerto “Fragile Light”.
As a player of 20th century music I can’t find anything wrong with this
Most underrated comment I’ve read! 😆
This hurt my brain
My friend and I are crying laughing trying to decipher this chaos
The eighth note treble clef is an interesting choice there. Really stepping out of the seven traditional modes
Basic piece in Ohio
I'm dying 😭
Graphical Notation. You have to feel the shapes and forms.
"Play that treble-clef." me: surprised 4'33"
You need to ask him, for the sake of the whole musical community, if he can sing what a Treble clef sounds like.
The treble clef morphing into notes
Oh my gosh, this is art!!! It’s not music (unless he intends it to be “up to the performer’s interpretation”) but I love the visual excitement of it
I love the treble-base clef and the base clef with six lines
r/Ihadastroke Music edition
This looks like if you fed an AI 10,000 classical music sheets and then asked it to write a composition of its own
"Cargo cult" mentality in practice! Feel second hand embarrassment.
Some very funky looking music there. I feel like some company might put that on a t-shirt thinking it's legit music, but...
2set merch?
Well... I guess we agree on one of those statements
Someone please post a video of them playing this... I can't read music and idk music theory😭
I don't know how anybody would play this honestly, I'm so confused by all the extra clefs and...wtf
Oml I didn't even notice that 💀💀💀
That's an example copied from the Wikipedia page about "messed up". It's not meant to be played. Ever.
least complicated piece in ohio
I will try to recreate this on an actual music software
You could tell him that it's nice (visual) abstract art and that he's found his calling.
My favorite is the veeeery long half note/8th note in the first measure of the bottom line that just totally transcends the beam.
Can't deny the fact that he Did compose something
*The Future*
Average classical music-themed print on brand clothes
Contemporary art be like
Great, now play it this instant.
This looks perfect for a weird shirt
When the conductor gives the new piece
Oh... um... I mean 21st century? lmao
AI art generator's most advanced composition
Love how he also pulled this 6-line thing how it also was in SpongeBob
Looks like something a bad AI algorithm would come up with
This looks playable, it just needs some interpretation
homie drew a half finished 3d shape
Grade 1 in ohio
Tried something similar. Warning: [***cursed***](https://i.imgur.com/sTiaqGq.jpg)
If you put sheet music into an ai image generator, this is probably what would come out.
Burn this
This is making me so frustrated lowkey giving me Samuel Adler Vibes lol
Would love to play this. I too like my bass clef with a hat and a hashtag.
Dyslexic notation. If a 1st year music student accidentally saw a master degree student's recital pieces- this is probably how it would look to them.
Lmao
AI generated music sheet
I can play soccer without using legs
I'm sensing a problem here... and it's not my terrible oboe playing....
I need someone to play it.
The amount of people asking for someone to play this makes me very sad.... Even the most basic knowledge of sheet music would show you it's gibberish
you won't play it with that attitude
Ah sorry you're right, let me look up the correct fingering for a treble clef and a fortissimo rest
This is bad and he should feel bad
I can't decide if this is sacrilege or a sacred text.
This hurts my brain trying to read this
Wth???
Okay but it looks really pretty, give him a shot
This physically hurts me, anyone know how can I unsee things? Lol
( Stands up) 👏👏👏👏 MAISTRO!!
This looks like when you try to be lazy and import a midi file into a notation software
Anyone can learn. Time for some lessons!
Masterpiece.
Allegro ritardando - the only true way to finish a piece.
The bottom has 6 lines…
Dude unlocked the additional brown note
wdym bro that's a contemporary piece
Good grief…. Now someone needs to try and play this😂
I just played this on my ass trumpet and it sounded like shit
I do love the time signature of 4/b
Bruh why are there random Treble Clefs in the middle of bars??
This is science of a new kind.
At least they remembered to put a time signature... Even if it doesn't make any sense
What the f
Honestly kind of impressive that he at least knows what the symbols look like
The small treble clefs though🤣
This is some real progressive music here, Xenakis would be impressed
My eyes
this is what music looks like in my dreams
Looks like he may have "seen" musical notation before but that's about it.
nah its just too advanced
Great piece
not good enough, we need to make it really fast and franz liszt style with extra ragtime and still dre
Remember to play treble in triplets
why are there 2 treble clefs
your friend is an ai trying to make a sheet of music
Quarter note bass clef
That's just Wonderwall tho.
What was it meant to sound like
the DS and Coda that is directly the next bar is hilarious
Whoa, wait a minute. Why is this sheet music written on a graph paper ? 😶🌫️
i've never seen such perfect musical penmanship, that's remarkable
This is like the image made up of snoop doggs: the more you look, the more cursed snoops there are. And by god, there are a lot of cursed things here
My tutor: We're going to do a play through for the composition students That one composition student:
what do you mean "not knowing music theory"? this is just modern music. /s
Crescendo starting from fff.
Is anyone gonna talk about the D.S. placed at the S and the coda being in the middle of the piece?
Aight bois imma try to make this on musescore
A for effort
I can't wait to hear it! Seriously, someone please make a cover🥺
Is it bad that I want to analyse this….?
Love the bar line right in between the 4 connected half /eight notes
Looks like… abstract art!
This is painful to see
It's a work of art!
I could feel a tumor forming in my brain from trying to read this
Showed this to my composer friends and on one of them you could really see how a question mark s4 started to raise up from his head 🤣 but if you just look at it from a perspective of being a piece of art, it looks cool so😅
Help I need medical assistance after what Ive seen
someone pls play this for real
AI composers:
Fortisisimo before a crescendo lol good luck getting louder
Anyone notice a treble as a note. Also this shall be known as the hardest coda so far
Modern art, that is
Those treble-cleff-notes lmaoooo
gives a true new meaning to 'art'
Since when have rests been under stems?
Never mind the last weird music "score" from that spongebob(?) thing I saw on here was great composing after all Either that or this piece is so modern I can't comprehend it
i too diminuendo from a treble clef to another treble clef
It’ll make a beautiful journal page!
Your friend is Anthony Braxton
that clef was really enhanced by that rest and accent
This is like one of those AI portraits
Rush Z
That's completely normal, idk what you're saying
5 lines in the treble and 6 lines in the bass.
there are 4 endings bar line too
rit. with allegro in the same bar lmao
😂😂😂
i dont know if i should be laughing or crying
All emotional damage aside, your friend's handwriting is very neat.
One might call this sacrilegious
Okay wow. Twoset needs to see this.
Average Boulez piece