Knuth: Fantasia Apocalyptica
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Knuth: Fantasia Apocalyptica
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#2Prof. Knuth's willingness to take on such ambitious projects and his persistence in completing so many of them is an inspiration.
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#3"And of course a musical work on the Apocalypse should also contain calypso."
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#4I would dearly love to see this lost work, if only because it was written by Dr. Knuth:
I spent a lot of time in high school reading books on orchestration, and I wrote a fairly good-sized work for symphonic band entitled Milton and the Rhinocerous. (It was a spoof of Peter and the Wolf, using a story by Roger Price that I didn't know was protected by copyright. I was blithely ignorant about intellectual property.) I proudly presented that piece to the band director, and he proceeded to lose it. As far as I know, no trace of that piece remains; and everybody, including me, is probably better off as a result.
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#5Sir Isaac Newton wasted much of his life trying to inject religion into his science. Ultimately it was for nil, as the concept of God has no place in science.
Cute, but trying to draw meaning in numbers derived from millennia aged books is this same madness.
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#6Sir Isaac Newton wasted much of his life trying to inject religion into his science. Ultimately it was for nil, as the concept of God has no place in science. Cute, but trying to draw meaning in numbers derived from millennia aged books is this same madness.
I think he is just doing it for fun though.
Your criticism is akin to saying people shouldn't waste their time passing around a piece of rubber in a grassy field.
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#7> 2) I also spell some things out by using Morse code. For instance, the rhythm "dash dot dash" in measures 12, 13, 16, 17, etc. of Chapter 1 is Morse code for "invitation to transmit".
As a software engineer who is Catholic and appreciates puns, I find this to be pure gold.
This is a very complex piece and I expect many renditions and adaptations will arise out of it, both in the classical/traditional circles as well as avant-garde jazz ones.
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#8This is cool. The organ is infrequently used because it is so huge but if you want high drama it's the right tool for the job.
Interstellar on church organ is intense. Feel inspired here:
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#9On top of being a genius, reading Knuth is such a pleasant experience. Without having ever interacted with him, he comes across as such a wonderful soul.
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#10This is cool. The organ is infrequently used because it is so huge but if you want high drama it's the right tool for the job. Interstellar on church organ is intense. Feel inspired here: https://youtu.be/zg5QMysuSYg
This is awesome, thank you for sharing.
Is there any kind of genre or name associated with epic organ music?