What is this "sheet" music?

[Brian]

Spotted here in Dallas. Anyone know what it is?

[listener]

Scott JOPLIN:  Maple Leaf Rag,  2nd page

[EigenUser]

Spotted here in Dallas. Anyone know what it is?

I was going to guess Joplin, but I wouldn't have known the piece.

How about this one? Makes me realize I need to hear it again sometime soon.

[Luke]

...logging in after many, many months years away, hope all you lovely people are well....

Ravel, Gaspard de la nuit

[Karl Henning]

Hoy, lad!  Great to see you;  I've not had much luck with the phone the last several times trying you.

[Luke]

Karl! No, you probably wouldn't have - my mobile was stolen from a petrol station a couple of months ago, and I moved house a few days later, so the landline is different too. I can PM them to you, though...

You know why I haven't been here, simply busy-ness and a general lack of the time needed to allow myself to get as engrossed here as I would like to be.  But I check in, very regularly, and I certainly miss the old days, badly. I still hope and believe that the time will come when I feel able to loiter around these parts again!

But really - a Ravel score? I couldn't leave that one hanging!

[Karl Henning]

Karl! No, you probably wouldn't have - my mobile was stolen from a petrol station a couple of months ago, and I moved house a few days later, so the landline is different too. I can PM them to you, though...

Do, with all convenient speed

[Karl Henning]

But really - a Ravel score? I couldn't leave that one hanging!

Ah-hah!  Enticement!

[EigenUser]

...logging in after many, many months years away, hope all you lovely people are well....

Ravel, Gaspard de la nuit

Woah, you're that mystery score legend! That game was the reason I joined GMG, but no one really wanted to play anymore .

Of course, you are correct .

[Luke]

I've never been a legend before!   I could get used to that.

That thread was epic, as my son would say. Ah, memories! Those were the days when I could give these things the time they deserve, and that thread was pretty addictive, to me.

Spotted here in Dallas. Anyone know what it is?

It's strange how often The Maple Leaf seems to be chosen when a graphic designer requires a slab of 'sheet music' to fill a space on wallpaper or wrapping paper and thereby to stand in for the concept of 'music' (though I've never seen it on a wall, as Brian did  ). A staggering example I saw earlier this year - I even took a photo on my phone, which I would post here, but it was the phone which got stolen - was an Easter card, all the cliches in place, daffodils, frothy lacy trimmings, a delicate line drawing of an old English church, and then, just to emphasize that one should also be imagining the gentle wafts of organ music drifting across the churchyard, a faint underlay of Joplin. How appropriate...

[Karl Henning]

A passing maple leaf was wafted along . . . .

[Luke]

...not this, but this kind of thing (closest I could find):



(That's Mendelssohn, I believe, a Lied ohne Worte)

Makes me feel queasy, this sort of thing!

[Karl Henning]

And quite right!

[EigenUser]

I've never been a legend before!   I could get used to that.

That thread was epic, as my son would say. Ah, memories! Those were the days when I could give these things the time they deserve, and that thread was pretty addictive, to me.

It's strange how often The Maple Leaf seems to be chosen when a graphic designer requires a slab of 'sheet music' to fill a space on wallpaper or wrapping paper and thereby to stand in for the concept of 'music' (though I've never seen it on a wall, as Brian did  ). A staggering example I saw earlier this year - I even took a photo on my phone, which I would post here, but it was the phone which got stolen - was an Easter card, all the cliches in place, daffodils, frothy lacy trimmings, a delicate line drawing of an old English church, and then, just to emphasize that one should also be imagining the gentle wafts of organ music drifting across the churchyard, a faint underlay of Joplin. How appropriate...

That was fun reading through last summer (2013). That was when I started really taking an effort to listen to new things instead of just replaying favorites. That would be mostly thanks to the mystery score thread and your interesting choices. That was the first time I ever saw the name 'Feldman', too. So, thanks!

That's pretty funny -- Joplin on an Easter card! When I graduated from high school five years ago my friend gave me a 1000-piece puzzle of a string quartet. It took me four years to realize that it was a Beethoven SQ! I think it is 14 or 15. I have it hanging on my wall in my music room.

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[Luke]

Sympathy cards....here's what I just found. Facepalm time:



(Vivaldi, Spring...)



(Bach, Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, I think, but upside down)

There are others....

[Luke]

That was fun reading through last summer (2013). That was when I started really taking an effort to listen to new things instead of just replaying favorites. That would be mostly thanks to the mystery score thread and your interesting choices. That was the first time I ever saw the name 'Feldman', too. So, thanks!

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks are due, it's easy to forget, to Sean. He started the ball rolling, IIRC.

That's pretty funny -- Joplin on an Easter card! When I graduated from high school five years ago my friend gave me a 1000-piece puzzle of a string quartet. It took me four years to realize that it was a Beethoven SQ! I think it is 14 or 15. I have it hanging on my wall in my music room.

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Yes, that's the 'Feeling New Strength' section of the Heiliger Dankgesang from the A minor. Magical.

[Luke]

Last one - worst of all, perhaps, is when notation is used nonsensically, because, well, it's only music, isn't it, it can't really matter how you write it down.



Amongst all the howlers here (howlers isn't even the word, they aren't even mistakes, they are abominations for which there is no category) I particularly love the little floating sharp sign...

[Karl Henning]

You're on a roll!

[Luke]

Not yet, neither you nor I. It takes a Beethoven to be on a roll:



I'm not so sure Elise would have been so keen if it had arrived in that form....

[Karl Henning]

In that wise, may neither of us ever be on a spool!