{"id":1046,"date":"2010-11-23T11:16:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T16:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2011-01-25T16:25:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T21:25:50","slug":"twisted-sheet-music-faeries-aire-and-the-death-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/twisted-sheet-music-faeries-aire-and-the-death-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Twisted Sheet Music: Faerie&#8217;s Aire and The Death March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to my friend &#8220;Maddog&#8221; to come up something like this. Sheet music with absolutely demented chord formations and instructions like &#8220;whole arm on black keys&#8221;, &#8220;release the penguins&#8221;, and &#8220;insert peanuts&#8221; buried within the staff lines. It&#8217;s definitely one of those pieces that reveal more as you look it over again and again. Kind of like a <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/press\/docs\/death_waltz.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Bev Doolittle<\/a> painting, only with a disturbing musical bent.  <\/p>\n<p>Turns out this work has been making the rounds among music folk for awhile. I figured it would be worthwhile to post it here for posterity&#8217;s sake. Plus, I like the out of the notion of &#8220;faerie&#8217;s aire and death march&#8221; being a searchable phrase here on the web site. (Did I mention that there&#8217;s now a search window available on my web site?)<\/p>\n<p>Click on this pic, and it&#8217;ll bring up a nicely formatted printable version:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/press\/docs\/death_waltz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1047\" title=\"death_waltz_thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/death_waltz_thumb-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/death_waltz_thumb-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/death_waltz_thumb.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Click for printable version<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The more I look at this, the more I think it&#8217;s perfectly suited to be a banjo piece. How hard could it be, right?<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s note: Maddog&#8217;s real name is &#8220;Bob&#8221;. (It&#8217;ll be our little secret, okay?)<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Ftwisted-sheet-music-faeries-aire-and-the-death-march%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to my friend &#8220;Maddog&#8221; to come up something like this. Sheet music with absolutely demented chord formations and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}