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Article: Instruction: To compose without the least knowledge of Music so much German Waltzer of Schleifer as one pleases, by throwing a certain Number with two Dice.
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- American Music Teacher
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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by W. A. Mozart and Edited by Fritz Spiegl. Emerson Edition/Theodore Presser Company (588 N. Gulph Rd., King of Prussia, PA 19406), 2000. 6 pp. piano, $14.95.
This little musical curiosity, supposedly by W. A. Mozart, was thought to be a spurious concoction of a music publisher until recently, when another similar work in Mozart's hand appeared in a European library. In essence, the composer presents 176 measures that are chosen and pieced together by consulting a chart, which gives the order of the measures based on numbers from the throw of two dice. This is an interesting musical joke, for often the combination of measures makes pretty good sense when played ...
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