Pretentions of Mechanical Music No.1 - Casella

Ah je suis pretentieuse! This week I have mainly got the simpering expression on my face of someone who drinks something made from those coffee beans that have been through a cats rear orifice then tells you "it's a delicacy you know" which gives them a sensation of being somehow better than you. We've been simpering away listening to Casella and telling everyone how good it is and intimating that we are intellectual and they cannot understand this music. We even tried putting on ridiculous "posh" pseudo-upperclass English accents to assist our self-delusion. Do you like Casella? You too can be pretentious and say yes, we don't mind so long as you find your own piece of Casella and not ours!

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[KawhackitaRag]

A precursor to Nancarrow?

[chem100]

In harmony with the times? Ever heard of Dada? There are Dada player piano rolls. I have three of them--similar to this one--and they are from the 1920s.

Then..."Masculine Women, Feminine Men," "Do Something," and "How Could Red Riding Hood." Not to mention "Roll 'Em Girls, Roll Your Own," and "When Mrs. McNott Learned to Do the Turkey Trot."

Player pianos (as we think of them) weren't developed until 1908 and that was in the Edwardian era. Not even ten years later Jazz was becoming the rage.

[mickeymunter]

LOL! Since when were musical instruments (these ones or others) EVER manufactured as a means of "presenting Victorian values in harmony with the times?" ROFL! Perhaps take at look at an original roll catalogue and see if its musical contents conform to your (modern) view of the Victorian era!

Funnier still is the age of this piece of music. Firmly in the "Victorian era" are also the (atonal) experimental late works of Liszt and early Schoenberg. In harmony with the times?