# Classify this music (too funny!)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classify-this-music-too-funny/325212
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 7, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classify-this-music-too-funny/325212 "2005-10-07T16:44:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classify-this-music-too-funny/325212/1 "2005-10-07T16:44:29Z")
Mundane? Yup.
Pointless? Sure.
I MUST share!
[Faeries Aire and Death Waltz](http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/9608/faeriesaireanddeathwaltzgif16j.gif)
Well, it sure doesn’t seem like a waltz, but the performance would be spectacular!
Heh, some of the phrasing looks like Philip Glass was involved…
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classify-this-music-too-funny/325212/2 "2005-10-07T17:17:00Z")
I didn’t know Rube Goldberg was a composer.
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### Author:  [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2005, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classify-this-music-too-funny/325212/3 "2005-10-07T17:42:19Z")
That’s pretty cool, but check [this](http://shop.store.yahoo.com/wildaboutmusic/plakovic.html) out.
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### Author:  [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2005, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classify-this-music-too-funny/325212/4 "2005-10-07T18:02:24Z")
“Release penguins.” Hee hee.
Very nice, **Cantara**.
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### Author:  [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2005, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classify-this-music-too-funny/325212/5 "2005-10-07T18:03:18Z")
I believe that piece is played by slamming a 2x4 down on the keyboard.
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### Author:  [@KeithT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithT)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classify-this-music-too-funny/325212/6 "2005-10-07T21:14:20Z")
Link in the OP is dead, but [this one works](http://www.well.com/user/bryan/waltz.html).
Heh. Check the second-to-last measure:
_Like a New Orleans concertina choir… continue “swimming” motion_
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### Author:  [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classify-this-music-too-funny/325212/7 "2005-10-07T22:12:09Z")
My GoogleFu skills have revealed the [second page.](http://10e.org/samcimg/DeathWaltz2.gif)
Heh. And I just noticed that the clef changes on every line. 😃
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### Author:  [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classify-this-music-too-funny/325212/8 "2005-10-07T22:30:19Z")
> [@NinjaChick](#):
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> My GoogleFu skills have revealed the [second page.](http://10e.org/samcimg/DeathWaltz2.gif)
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> Heh. And I just noticed that the clef changes on every line. 😃
No it doesn’t! Although your link seems to be to a string quartet, unlike the first page. (Hey, can’t I be irrationally-rational about this?)
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### Author:  [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2005, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classify-this-music-too-funny/325212/9 "2005-10-07T23:35:54Z")
“Remove cattle from stage.” Snicker.
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### Author:  [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2005, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classify-this-music-too-funny/325212/10 "2005-10-08T01:26:02Z")
Return to the Swarzenegger? 😕
Move those chubby little fingers!! LMFAO! 😃
How many frogs does the Death Waltz require for each performance? Inquiring minds want to know! And, what’s a ‘cat handle’?
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classify-this-music-too-funny/325212/11 "2005-10-08T01:50:32Z")
I wish the GarageBand synth had a “balance your chair on two legs” mode so I could know what this sounds like.