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	A Musical Joke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Divertimento for two horns and strings, A Musical Joke, (Ein Musikalischer Spaß,) K. was published on June 14, 1787 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
		The use of asymmetrical phrasing, whole-tone scales, and multitonality is quite foreign to music of the Classical era.
		Perpetuum Mobile: musikalischer Scherz by Johann Strauss II is also translated to A Musical Joke.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Musical_Joke (420 words)

	Jokes Information Portal @ UJest.net (U Jest) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A joke is a short story or series of words spoken or communicated, ideally with the intent of being laughed at or found humorous by the listener or reader.
		Jokes are performed either in a staged situation, such as a comedy in front of an audience, or informally for the entertainment of participants and onlookers.
		A joke is a short story or short series of words communicated with the intent of being found humorous by the listener or reader.
	www.ujest.net (1584 words)

	Notes on Ein Musikalischer Spass (A Musical Joke) K. 522 (1787)
		The music is not a caricature or mockery of the musicians of the time; it frequently requires sophisticated technique of the players.
		Some consider A Musical Joke to be a parody of a fictitious composer, a combination of the then popular Gyrowetz and Duschek and Mozart’s insipid pupils Sussmayr and Hummel.
		It seems that A Musical Joke is, for Mozart, an exercise in coping with musical impossibilities.
	jsundram.freeshell.org /ProgramNotes/Mozart_Joke.html (423 words)

	Thoughts On a Train: The Musical Joke Blues
		To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
		Novelists tell their students to “write what you know.” Composers, who as a rule were rarely given that same advice, have had access to a lot of different kinds of music, often “knowing” music that would not be considered classical.
		When I was at Eastman, I don’t remember hearing too many composers influenced by rock music: that was not serious enough.
	thoughtsonatrain.blogspot.com /2006/10/musical-joke-blues.html (1167 words)

	defective yeti: Cacophony
		Three musical instruments are sitting in a bar and, after a few drinks, they begin boasting.
		And drums, as I'm sure you know, were the first instruments in the history of the world, used not only for music but also for long range communication and even to motivate soldiers in a time of war.
		Most of the great classical music was written with me in mind, and even today my cousin, the keyboard, is central to the creation of modern music."
	www.defectiveyeti.com /archives/001717.html (235 words)

	Going Through the Motions... the OMwF fansite and fanlisting
		Musicals don't get the respect they deserve, not from music collectors.
		A song-and-dance demon is summoned to Sunnydale, and suddenly all the town folk are compelled to sing and dance whenever they experience a feeling or emotion that they can't express.
		The joke of it all is that everyone is aware that music is playing and that they're singing, but they can't stop -- it cleverly turns the pretext of a musical on its ear.
	musical.chosentwo.com /press/presstarheel100302.php (505 words)

	Review: The Guardian
		The idea is simple: Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart's show takes one basic plot, about a young woman, her boyfriend and her nasty landlord, and re-tells it five times in the style of different musical theatre composers.
		An extended showbiz in-joke, The Musical of Musicals might benefit from a sharper wit and a looser, less repetitive structure.
		In a sketch in which the landlord is a frustrated artist plotting to assassinate his tenant, Stephen Sondheim is mocked for his erudition, his tunelessness and his psychological complexity - "Sometimes I think I'm having a thought/But then I realise I'm not".
	www.musicalofmusicals.com /reviewtheguardia.html (328 words)

	Miscellaneous works
		The music composed during his last five years has entered the standard repertoire, and is frequently performed and recorded.
		When Griffes died unexpectedly three years later, the music became scattered and fragmented, and was not completely pulled together and described until the 1960s.
		Though a few subsequent performances were mounted using a circulating manuscript copy from the Fleisher Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia, publishers remained daunted by the piece's length (the Kallisti edition runs to 418 pages) and unorthodox instrumentation until the desktop revolution made its publication practical at last.
	home.netcom.com /~kallisti/misc.html (555 words)

	Mozart's muse
		Baptista spoke at a seminar on the science of music and natural sound at the 2000 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
		The event was sponsored by National Musical Arts, the resident ensemble of the National Academy of Sciences.
		In fact, said Baptista, the music "mimics the starling's natural propensity to intertwine whistled tunes," and that the awkwardness may be due "to their tendency to whistle 'off-key,' which Mozart reproduced in the horn passages...
	whyfiles.org /114music/2.html (743 words)

	Musical jokes
		Musical jokes, clean, updated often, and filtered for the best quality.
		Glissando: The musical equivalent of slipping on a banana peel.
		Trill: The musical equivalent of an epileptic seizure.
	www.ahajokes.com /msic2.html (1719 words)

	multi-channel Mozart / von Bingen
		The Mozart collection, called "Night Music," is a charmer throughout, with delectable performances of several of Mozart's finest, best-known scores.
		Eine kleine Nachtmusik sparkles with light-hearted elegance, and the "jokes" in A Musical Joke are humorous indeed.
		As CD notes say, chants heard on this recording were inspired by the legend of St. Ursua and the Eleven Thousand Virgins, intended to be sung by the nuns of her convent....her chants weave a hypnotic web of sound.
	www.classicalcdreview.com /MC81.html (259 words)

	Instrument Jokes
		A conductor and music educator, he is also the American educational director for the Yamaha Foundation of Tokyo.
		music: a complex organizations of sounds that is set down by the composer, incorrectly interpreted by the conductor, who is ignored by the musicians, the result of which is ignored by the audience.
		She was also a 1983 silver medalist at the Klutz Musical Page Pickup Competition: contestants retrieve and rearrange a musical score dropped from a Yamaha.
	www.mit.edu /~jcb/jokes (9107 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: A Musical Joke
		PETER SCHICKELE has been inflicting the music of P.D.Q. Bach on a beleaguered public for ten long years now, even since his first, fateful discovery of the manuscript version of the Sanka Cantata in a Leipzig brothel.
		D.Q. BACH'S MUSICAL ineptness was not the sort of thing we can attribute to such simple cause as his dissolute life or his inability to carry a tune.
		Bach seems to have had little rhythmic sense; indeed, his dance music, as Schickele has aid, suggests that one of his legs was shorter than the other.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=495991 (513 words)

	BSO Kids - Sound Off - Music Dictionary
		— In a piece of music, one musical section is played (A), followed by a new section (B), followed by a repetition of the first section (A).
		— A hold or a pause in music; indicates that a note or a rest is to be held longer than its normal duration.
		— A musical play, in which all the dialogue is sung rather than spoken.
	www.bsokids.com /kids/sound_off/music_dictionary.asp (658 words)

	The Musical Bee - MozartForum
		The music was taken from operas of various composers.
		In this musical joke the creative power and personality of the singer was free to triumph, and an appropriate star studded cast was gathered.
		Da Ponte's deep insight into the psyche of the stage artist and the world of the musical theater can be grasped, as he shows how strongly the individual of each character is differentiated.
	www.mozartforum.com /VB_forum/showthread.php?t=1190 (632 words)

	Mozart's Musical Joke K522 - MozartForum
		On June 14, 1787 Mozart entered into his work catalogue "Eine musikalischer Spaß [A Musical Joke], consisting of an Allegro, Menuett and Trio, Adagio and Finale.--2 Violins, Viola, 2 Horns and Basso".
		Thus it appears Mozart started the composition of this Musical Joke long before the death of his father.
		In another, well thought out view, Konrad Küster (Mozart: A Musical Biography 1996] believes Mozart was not attempting to deride other composers, but to poke fun at their interpreters, and to the virtuoso players at that.
	www.mozartforum.com /VB_forum/showthread.php?p=8358 (570 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		The title of this exceptional disc, "Night Music", should not be taken to mean that the performances are in any way dark, mysterious, droopy, sluggish, or otherwise conventionally "nocturnal".
		Rather, the term evokes its 18th century musical meaning: a time for fun, relaxation, parties, entertainment both indoors and out, and of course, romance.
		In the second half of the minuet's "A" section, for example, he has the horns play correct harmony, only switching to Mozart's foul original at the repeat, where everyone slows down in disbelief at the atrocious results and the ensemble begins to fall apart in shock.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=6830 (602 words)

	Musical Instrument Jokes Musical Humor Recreation
		- Jokes in the form of an addmission test for the BBC Orchestra
		- 102 pages of music jokes in HTML or PDF format with table of contents.
		- Jokes and other humor relating to pianists and their instruments.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Recreation/Humor/Musical/Musical_Instrument_Jokes (101 words)

	MOZART: Serenata Notturna in D, KV 239; Serenade in G "Eine kleine nachtmusik;" Notturno in D for Four Orchestras; A ...
		Eine kleine nachtmusik, The Musical Joke, and the Serenade in D are on both discs, with the new Savall having the Notturno KV 286 instead of the Adagio and Fugue in c KV 546 and Menuet and Trio in C KV 485a which are on the Manze disc.
		I felt Savall missed an opportunity to have Mozart's four little orchestras at the four points of the compass for KV 286, as the experimental CEO/engineer of the Tacet label would be wont to do.
		Each of the four movements lays on the musical jokes a bit heavier.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=1816 (669 words)

	WNYC - Evening Music with David Garland: Musical Joke (April 01, 2005)
		April Fool’s is the perfect day to hear Mozart’s “Musical Joke,” which spoofs all the musical rules of his time.
		David Garland, host of WNYC's Evening Music and Spinning on Air, is also a composer and a performer.
		He has performed his music extensively in the U.S. and Europe and several of his recordings and downloads are available on his Web site, DavidGarland.com.
	www.wnyc.org /shows/eveningmusic_w/episodes/2005/04/01 (244 words)

	Unheard Beethoven Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This barely decipherable musical joke can be found amongst the sketches for the String Quartet in Eb major, opus 127, and probably dates from 1824.
		The highly melismatic character of Hess 285 (every syllable of 'Tobias' is sung to 27 notes) is reminiscent of the first and last movements of the string quartet.
		It is next to impossible to determine the exact placement of the heads (at least without electron microscope), so in many cases the intended pitch may be anything within the range of a third.
	www.unheardbeethoven.org /search/search.pl?piece=hess285.mid (421 words)

	List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Perhaps his best-admired work is in opera, the piano concerto, the symphony, and in the string quartet and string quintet.
		The Horn Concertos are characterized by an elegant and humorous dialogue between the soloist and the orchestra.
		Mozart's earliest composition attempts begin with piano sonatas and other piano pieces, as this is the instrument on which his musical education took place.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Musical_works_of_Mozart (3358 words)

	Amazon.com: A Musical Joke: Music: Mozart,Dorati,Philharmonia Hungarica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mozart on Inspired Journey CD — Solo piano music by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Brahms, Schumann, and more.
		Find out in Music You Should Hear, where these and other artists tell you about the music they love.
		With all the votes in, Amazon.com's music editors have selected the best CDs of the year in all your favorite categories.
	www.amazon.com /Musical-Joke-Mozart/dp/B00000E4W9 (343 words)

	Mozart: Night Music, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic
		If you think Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" is sedate music meant solely to soothe and relax (as certain classical music marketers would have you believe), this disc will turn your every assumption on its head.
		With dazzling snap and verve, violin virtuoso/conductor Manze shakes off every bit of sleepy familiarity from this piece; his forces' attacks are crisp, clean and entirely fresh.
		Don't stop there, though: tucked in among the shorter works on this all-Mozart recording is a version of "A Musical Joke" that is truly laugh-out-loud funny.
	www.emusic.com /album/10901/10901151.html (410 words)

	Musical Joke Voice Messages
		Samples recordings of the Joke Voice Messages are at 6k.
		When you get the joke message downloaded to your phone the quality is much higher.
		Please check the Ringtone Compatibility FAQ for supported mobile cell phones including Alcatel, Sony Ericsson, LG, Mitsubishi, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Panasonic, Philips, Sagem, Samsung, Seimens, Sendo, Sharp, Vodafone and Xelibri mobile phones.
	www.toneaholic.com /musical-joke-voice-messages.html (99 words)

	Musical Keyboard for fan and joke.
		You'll hear music when you press the keys or click the mouse.
		A great program for playing practical jokes: start the program and hide its window.
		Then ask a friend to help you fix a problem with your computer: watch their surprised face when they start tapping away on the keys!
	www.bvrsoft.com /muskey.htm (174 words)

	Adult Golf Joke
		Adult Joke Archives A letter to my wife (12-08-00) TO MY toes 29 times you had to get up early to play golf 2 times you were in a fight and someone kicked
		Death by Golf Gun Adult Joke Alert Adult Joke Alert Number 2 the devil a riddle that is sort of adult Nuclear power The train
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	www.thinkandreachpar.com /golf-instruction/adult_golf_joke.html (631 words)

	A Musical Joke (Top Line)
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		You will need to install the Scorch2 sheet music viewer.
		If you still have problems, take a look at our electronic music help page.
	www.harmonyonline.com /musical-joke-line-p-111897.html (169 words)

	Musical Joke - Discussion Forums US
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		I know this might be an old joke, but people might not have heard it.
		You have to play music to get the joke.
	www.discussionforums.us /forum/showthread.php?t=9925 (353 words)

	Listen to MP3 of Ein musikalishcer Spass (A Musical Joke), K522 from Mozart: Night Music by The English Concert / ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Listen to MP3 of Ein musikalishcer Spass (A Musical Joke), K522 from Mozart: Night Music by The English Concert / Andrew Manze @ OpusCDs.com music CD DVD store
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		Listen to Ein musikalishcer Spass (A Musical Joke), K522
	www.opuscds.com /track/120652 (137 words)

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