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[wispfox]

Via leiacat, the most evil sheet music ever. With page two in the comments. My initial reaction - and I used to read music reasonably well - was shock. Then I started reading the text, causing me to giggle lots. Oh, the glee. (well, after the shock)

In paidmembers, we are informed that the LJ portal is back, although now it's called My LJ, has a bunch of features, and is not available to free users yet.

Comments

[uberjay.livejournal.com]

Sweet. I actually like the portal thingy quite a bit. Especially the birthday widget!

That sheet music is awesome. :)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

The birthday widget was there in the previous incarnation of the portal. Is it that you did not know it existed before?

[uberjay.livejournal.com]

Yes, I wasn't aware of this until now.

[sunspiral.livejournal.com]

Actually, there's a Frank Zappa composition known as The Black Page for the sheer note density, and it may be worse.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

That's terrifying. :)

[ratatosk.livejournal.com]

Weirdly, actual musicians will recognize most of the directions as exactly the sorts of things real composers write. Just, never all at once. My personal favorite on this is the "remove mute" with no previous "mute" anywhere in piece. I hate it when I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to play the whole thing muted, but there is no indication of where to stop!

Overall, disturbingly realistic.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Believe me, as a clarinet player (or worse yet, flute!) it is *far* more disconcerting to receive a "remove mute" command halfway through the piece.

"Is this the right part? Am I in the right key? Where'd I put my trumpet?" :-P

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Overall, disturbingly realistic.

Including the peanuts and the explosions? :)

I knew that some of the instruction were reasonable ones. Others, though, not so much.

[ratatosk.livejournal.com]

The explosions aren't weird at all -- the 1812 overture has cannons. As to the peanuts, I'm still working on that. The trouble is that, just like real directions in music, it does not tell you how or where to insert the peanuts!

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

the 1812 overture has cannons

Huh.

Ok, now I'm even more entertained. :)

[trista.livejournal.com]

If arm falls off, reattach and play much slower.

Oh, wow. I actually hurt myself laughing at that! I am profoundly thankful that I never had to play anythign quite like it.