Psychedelic Strauss
"If we were to search for a name to convey the breakaway mood of the 1890s (a mood symbolized musically by the opening bars of Strauss's Don Juan) but without imposing a fictitious unity of style on the age, we could do worse than revert to Hermann Bahr's term 'modernism' and speak of a stylistically open-ended 'modernist music' extending (with some latitude) from 1890 to the beginnings of our own twentieth-century modern music in 1910." Carl Dahlhaus, Nineteenth-Century Music (trans. J. Bradford Robinson), 334.
(Printer-jammed Don Juan rescued from a music library photocopier)
That's just wonderful.
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Posted by: Wes F in Hapeville | November 19, 2008 at 06:16 PM
Sweet Jones what a beautiful image. Who needs Photoshop?
Posted by: ECG | November 19, 2008 at 07:27 PM
How gorgeous! It looks like somebody was copying a score and knocked it sideways as the scanner was moving across it. I'm fascinated trying to visualize the motion of the score. (Remember that the X axis of this image is not just left-to-right, it's also time!) You can see one staff go from "2 Clarinetten in A" all the way to... well, "A ni netteniralC 2". And those wild twisting bar lines and staff lines... Thanks for rescuing this.
Posted by: Christian Conkle | November 20, 2008 at 10:14 PM
I wonder if it would change too much if it was straight... I guess not!
Posted by: Ren B | November 21, 2008 at 11:20 PM