The world turned upside down

2005-11-02

The world turned upside down

I think the best thing about this story is imagining how it would be filmed.

PROFESSOR MACHAUT'S OFFICE. GENERIC GRAD STUDENT bursts in, wild-eyed.
GENERIC GRAD STUDENT: Professor! They've discovered that Bach didn't write the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor!
PROFESSOR: What?!
(Opening bars of Toccata and Fugue in D Minor ring out to underscore the horror)

While I'm throwing Metafilter links at you, this arcade sounds page is really quite exceptional.

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Mark:

Oh, I don't know...I remember discussing something like this in the mid-80s with my piano prof, and even then it wasn't a new controversy.

Oh snap! Well, maybe we can make it a period piece set in a time when such things were controversial. (How long ago would that have to be, I wonder. "In a world gone mad (over The Rite of Spring)... one butler dared to tell the truth.."

Even I remember hearing vague things about how it was originally a violin piece, now that you mention it.

Kitto:

Well the author seems to be referencing an article from 1981, so it would appear even he would have to admit that this is hardly a new theory. Even HE! Dum, da de de dum, Daaaa...

2005-11-02