The effect you describe in these classical mash-ups is
not unlike the "plagarized" music from Peter
Shickele's P.D.Q. Bach. Complete classical works are
drawn out of dozens of snippets of recognizable
popular and classical pieces, heavily intermingled.
Shickele is a master craftsman with these things; if
you weren't so familiar with the snippets that make up
each finished work, you'd swear that they were
original, the individual sections are so seamlessly
integrated into each other.
--- DJ WeirdKnobNow <djbrokenwindowATyahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On the US' National Public Radio (NPR), I noticed
> that
> during their classical hour (9am-10am PST) they have
> a
> game called their "Piano Puzzler". A resident
> piano-composer-talent plays a short peice on piano
> where two songs are merged/layered together.
>
> In the case of today, a famous part of Mussorgsky's
> "Pictures At An Exhibition" was merged into the
> American folk tune "She'll Be Coming Around the
> Mountain"
>
> Victor Borge's big joke in his piano concerts was to
> play 'Claire De Lune' by Debussy and start merging
> in
> 'Happy Birthday'. He mixed Happy Birthday with lots
> of tunes, but Claire De Lune was funniest because it
> was so somber compared to the ditsy melody of Happy
> Birthday.
>
> What is so cool about these examples is that they
> are
> so specifically about identifying two melodies
> playing
> at the same time; the core of interest in mashups.
>
> The NPR show really makes it seem fun to manipulate
> popular/well-known music by means of
> contrasting/comparing the music when it is layered
> together. At the same time, they credit the
> pianist/composer who is doing the merging and
> pointing
> out how their skill is involved merely in the
> selection of which song to make dominate the other
> at
> any given point.
>
> In the show, they break down which parts actually
> hint
> at which of the original melodies and talk about how
> music works. It made me appreciate the elegances of
> music's inner workings in the same way that I do for
> when pop music recordings are layered well.
>
> I would say that this is different than the effect
> of
> a 'medley'-type of music-manipulation.
>
> DJ BrokenWindow
>
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