so you want to write a fugue?

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kmhrm

Discussion Starter · Jan 25, 2012

This is my first post, so let me greet you guys

Humor in music? The majority of pieces in the repertoire look serious. I don't know! But I guess so. They all revolve around a musical idea that it's meaning becomes inclusive to the listener or an inspiration that is "serious"(pictures in an exhibition?) or a theme from "Dis Irae" becoming "Totentanz".

But lets laugh!

What pieces, lieds, ....etc that you find humorous? revolving around a funny joke or unexpected situations.

There is of course Comedy in Opera, but I am looking for humor.

Here is a piece that I find humorous:

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ComposerOfAvantGarde

· #2 · Jan 25, 2012

Erik Satie/René Clair

Entr'acte first shown during the intermission of Satie's ballet "Relâche" (which caused yet another riot at the Champs Élysées Theatre)

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Rasa

· #3 · Jan 25, 2012 (Edited)

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kmhrm

Discussion Starter · #4 · Jan 27, 2012

ComposerOfAvantGarde said:
Erik Satie/René Clair

Entr'acte first shown during the intermission of Satie's ballet "Relâche" (which caused yet another riot at the Champs Élysées Theatre)

hahaha...This is annoying and lovely at the same time. It's interesting, satire of many things (can be summarized in one thing)