Little known music facts, part 1
-Beethoven once ate an entire piano
-All violinists hate atonal music
-The Romantic Period is the lamest
-You don't know Claude Debussy but you do trust him
-Twelve-tone serial music was invented because Schoenberg was unhappy with the cereal selection at his local grocery store
-Schoenberg once filed a lawsuit against Burger King when they tried to capitalize on his music with a "Schoen Burger" menu addition
Part 2 (http://forum.ninsheetmusic.org/index.php?topic=9888.msg395187#msg395187)
Part 3 (http://forum.ninsheetmusic.org/index.php?topic=9888.msg395215#msg395215)
Part 4 (http://forum.ninsheetmusic.org/index.php?topic=9888.msg395274#msg395274)
Special Part 5 Edition (http://forum.ninsheetmusic.org/index.php?topic=9888.msg395351#msg395351)
Part 6 — Coming Tuesday, March 6, 2018!
I do one of these every week on Facebook and someone said I should post them on Reddit and I'm like why not let NSM in on it. Woooo.
i cant breathe
I do one every Tuesday so I'll post the previous ones throughout this week and then just start doing them on Tuesdays here too.
listen I try to take equal shots at everything in these but sometimes my inherent biases do shine through
mozart is better than bach
nah I'm with mael on this baroque kinda sucks
dont make me get firearrow
baroque is cool
Quote from: Olimar12345 on February 27, 2018, 02:12:24 PMdont make me get firearrow
Holy shit those long posts about Bach gave me life I forgot about that
I do admit Bach was a genius, but romantic touches my heart way more than baroque.
Sebastian—have you heard the andante movement of Mahler symphony 6? That's probably my current favorite romantic piece lol. I kinda keep coming back to it
120 bpm is one beat every half of a second
Quote from: Dude on February 27, 2018, 08:43:17 PM120 bpm is one beat every half of a second
That's actually how I keep track of time without a clock if I need to count seconds - I can never internalize exactly how long or short a second is, but I do remember how fast Route 201 from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl is.
I always think of the postman minigame thing in Majora's mask.
@Slow
Oh, yeah. Mahler has got some great stuff.
Little known music facts, part 2
-It is a common false stereotype that all trumpet players are arrogant. In fact, all musicians are arrogant and trumpet players are simply the loudest.
-All pianists are gay. Chopin and Liszt were lovers, and Fanny Hensel enjoyed a brief tryst with Clara Schumann during the latter's youth.
-Euphonium was voted "Most 'This Can't Be a Real Instrument'" among non-musicians.
-Schubert died at the young age of 31, which is especially astonishing when you consider that if you played all of his lieder from start to finish, the duration would be roughly 37 years.
-Every so-called atonal piece is actually in F-sharp minor. Look it up.
-Chopin's famous funeral march in B-flat minor is one of the lengthiest piano pieces in the repertoire, a single performance lasting anywhere from eight minutes to what feels like several hours.
Quote from: Latios212 on February 27, 2018, 08:47:42 PMThat's actually how I keep track of time without a clock if I need to count seconds - I can never internalize exactly how long or short a second is, but I do remember how fast Route 201 from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl is.
I think I've had to use Megalovania as a 120-bpm benchmark timer song before.
^the easier one is the Mii channel theme honestly
i cant breathe again
my mission with these is to kill dudeman from a lack of air
Quote from: SlowPokemon on February 28, 2018, 07:26:18 AM-Euphonium was voted "Most 'This Can't Be a Real Instrument'" among non-musicians.
Aha! I always had my suspicions...
These are amazing, thank you for them <3
Little known music facts, part 3
-Robert Schumann was known for writing in the personas of fictional characters he invented, including Florestan, Eusebius, and Mama Sass
-"Mazurka" is both a type of dance and what people in old times used to call their mother's hurka
-If you don't immediately like a piece of music the first time you hear it, you will hate it forever and should not under any circumstances try to understand why others find it interesting
-No one has ever heard of Scriabin
-Beethoven was known during his life as the "piano bang bang guy"
-Some contemporary composers are known for using extended techniques, such as using a non-percussive instrument percussively, playing directly on strings of a piano, or screaming in frustration because you just wanted to play romantic music dammit
Quote from: SlowPokemon on March 01, 2018, 05:06:55 AM-If you don't immediately like a piece of music the first time you hear it, you will hate it forever and should not under any circumstances try to understand why others find it interesting
Everything in this sentence is completely opposite for me and Mega Man II.
Oh lol when I posted my music fact, I didn't read any other posts and just assumed this topic was serious.
How wrong I was.
asphyxiation.txt
Pretty soon, Dudeman will only be able to post in Base64
Yug Guy's Little Known Music Fact of the Day:
It's time to stop playing with the snare drum now.
...what do you mean, "Why?" Because it's a musical instrument, not a toy- oh for God's sake Jesse, please just stop banging on it
Little known music facts, part 4
-The Schumanns had a pet alligator named "Chompy."
-The reason Debussy's "Clair de lune" is so popular is because so many people are named Clair, De, and Lune.
-Extended harmonies, such as 9th chords, 13th chords, or 7th chords on stilts, were popular during the Impressionist period.
-Schubert is now widely believed to have been gay, with scholars pointing to his unpublished "No Homo" song cycle and the famous "How Many Times Do I Have To Tell You I'm Waiting To Meet The Right Girl, Mom" symphony as possible evidence.
-J.S. Bach was a robot and all of his children were robot children, the most famous being C.P.E. (Charging Precious Electricity) Bach, who also made a name for himself as a composer.
-Starting next academic year, all music schools will require undergraduates to go to an etiquette class detailing how they should deal with situations in which others say awkward or insensitive things such as "Would you be interested in accompanying for free?", "I don't really like post-Romantic music," "I can play John Cage's '4'33!' (laughs)," or "This music reminds me of Philip Glass."
this thread reminds me of philip glass soundcloud commentary
Little known music facts, special part 5 edition
Quick note! As you may recall, these originate from a series of Facebook posts that I do every week. Well, this was this week's, meaning that you guys will now be getting them one week at a time like the rest of the peasants. (And I can stop spamming this board every day.) Thanks for your kind words and please enjoy this special five-themed part 5 edition! From now on, installments will be posted every Tuesday.
-Schumann has a hidden fifth symphony known colloquially as the "Chompy Symphony," believed to have been written about Schumann's accidental killing and subsequent eating of the family alligator.
-Chopin actually has only five letters. Can you spot the fake?
-Franz Liszt, having five letters in both his first and last name, actually fulfilled an ancient prophecy by composing some of the world's first atonal pieces.
-Schoenberg settled on using all twelve pitches in an octave after a failed experiment in "five-tone serialism" and briefly believing he invented the pentatonic scale.
-Mozart's operas...actually, none of them are in five acts, but boy, it can sure seem that way, right?
Little known music facts, part 6
-Opera is not for the faint of heart, nor for the faint of attention span.
-Many argue about whether Beethoven was a Classic or Romantic composer, when in fact he was simply a weird composer.
-Paganini is not a name you expected to show up in one of these.
-Jazz music is just as intense, difficult, and important as classical music, and involves as much or more skill, according to some jazz player you know.
-Chopin is to piano music what Thomas Kinkade is to art.
Quote from: SlowPokemon on March 06, 2018, 11:35:07 AM-Jazz music is just as intense, difficult, and important as classical music, and involves as much or more skill, according to some jazz player you know.
:thonk:
Still in love with these
What's not to love about little known music facts
Little known music facts, part 7
-Standing ovations, once considered a high honor and a sign of an audience greatly enjoying a performance, are now commonplace as audiences increasingly feel that they need to somehow participate in the event.
-Beethoven's metronome was altered to occasionally speak to the composer and even answer his questions, as an early prototype of Amazon's Alexa.
-Mozart is only enjoyable if it's played wrong.
-Brahms once hired a tax collector named Melvin to conduct the premiere of his third symphony, but plans fell through when Melvin turned out to be a Russian spy sent to steal the music and take credit for its composition.
-Your instrument once killed a man.
-Chompy, the pet alligator which Robert Schumann accidentally ran over and then ate in attempt to hide his guilt, is thought to have alligator descendants that to this day vow to utterly annihilate the remainder of the Schumann bloodline.
can you do this every day instead of every week
also you haven't changed your avatar in a while
Quote from: SlowPokemon on April 08, 2018, 02:33:25 PM-Standing ovations, once considered a high honor and a sign of an audience greatly enjoying a performance, are now commonplace as audiences increasingly feel that they need to somehow participate in the event.
This is your most important fact so far.
yeah that one really pisses me off. everyone always standing up for everything why no plz stop innit
Quote from: SlowPokemon on April 08, 2018, 02:33:25 PM-Your instrument once killed a man.
Which one?
Also,
Spoiler
Quote from: SlowPokemon on April 08, 2018, 02:33:25 PM-Chompy, the pet alligator which Robert Schumann accidentally ran over and then ate in attempt to hide his guilt, is thought to have alligator descendants that to this day vow to utterly annihilate the remainder of the Schumann bloodline.
I knew Chompers was acting a little strange lately...