bassflutes:

stillreadingthescore:

soprano-and-the-alto-clef:

itsaviolathing:

thesolopianist:

you-had-me-at-e-flat-major:

amorydreams:

Today I learned that a composer named Erwin Schulhoff wrote a completely tacet piece as the third movement of his “Fünf Pittoresken” for piano. His piece pre-dates John Cage’s 4’33" by 30 years, and is actually much more suggestive as to how the silence should be shaped, containing really complex rhythmic rests and lines to the rests. His successful career was cut short due to the Rise of the Nazi Regime in Germany and their strict rules on music, and because of this, his pieces are very rarely played or referenced to.

waaaAAAAIIIIIT WHAT IS THAT MARKING AT THE END

Tag yourself I’m the question mark at the end of measure 7

I’m the four exclamation marks in bar 9

I am the entirety of measure 8

my life right now is bar 11

I’m the happy face fermatas