On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:55 PM, David Nalesnik <dnale...@umail.iu.edu> wrote: > The Wikipedia article on Alkan mentions an F triple-sharp in one of his > pieces, and you can see it in the musical extract given (along with a lot of > other crazy spellings). > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Valentin_Alkan
<class="off-topic" mode="troll"> On the other hand, does this really qualify as music? :-) I remember a remark that the director of my conservatory once made. A professor whom nobody really liked had just organized an "Alkan Festival" (the only one in the world, I think), and people had been playing Alkan's "works" for hours all week long. Shortly after that, one morning I was having a chat with the director in the lobby, and for some reason I began talking about Edvard Grieg, and how interesting, talented and yet little-known a composer he was. The director agreed: -- Indeed. There are many little wonders amongst his works, but somehow he isn't remembered as one of the "Great" composers. He thought about that for a few seconds, then he elaborated on that: -- It may be because you'll hardly find huge, towering scores in Grieg's repertoire: he was a great composer, but who mostly wrote small pieces. Then he stood still for a while, and he quietly added: -- Well, it's the opposite of Alkan, really. Cheers, Valentin PS (Yes, I do hold a grudge against Alkan, partly because he was named like me, partly because his music sucks, partly because he was just an ass.) _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
