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From: mcmillan@eosp1.UUCP (John McMillan)
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Subject: Re: A Gangston-Langley Wrench type joke.
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Date: Wed, 28-Mar-84 16:51:24 EST
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<Anyone who has been active in the field of classical music analysis
in the last 20 years will find this one quite amusing.>

A number of people in Columbia music department were playing a game (in 1961,
by the way) where they clustered around a piano and took turns playing
fragments of pieces of music.  Everyone tried to recognise the pieces
form the fragments.  Gradually the fragments became shorter and shorter.
Finally, someone reached over and played a single note -- a short "a" below
middle C.  Naturally, everyone burst out laughing.



























(Everyone recognised the note as the beginning of Wagner's Prelude to
Tristan und Isolde, the most analysed piece of music in the last 100 years.)
					- Toby Robison
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