Matthew Lee Knowles (314,339 words)
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(I've written a novel, it's called 36) Experimentalist, composer, poet, pianist, teacher, joker. Horror/whiskey/cosmology 🏳️🌈 profile photo by @DerAbschied
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I think this might be my most niche joke so to the 3 people who will find this funny, you're welcome 😃
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Today I started writing out the Mozart requiem, note by note, here's the first movement
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When someone gives you the silent treatment
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Wanted to make a graphic score before I went to bed, didn’t know what to do so I just bit the edge of the card for 5 minutes… 🤔
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- Where's my part?
- It's... wait, didn't you ghost me on Tinder?
- Um.. I, err, I can't rem... err, maybe... sorry?
- Just give me a second ... okay, here's your part.
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My students often ask me about pedalling on the piano so I give them this piece of mine from last year, say nothing and walk backwards out of the room
look there that's their ghost boy
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I spent 12 hours editing a score yesterday and I've done another 7 hours so far today yet apparently I still have time for this
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Replacing all the notes in Joplin's Entertainer with rests is actually not quite as entertaining 🤔
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I went through several hours of Cage talking and removed all the words
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Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Krzysztof Penderecki
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Just had a thought… has anyone ever used dynamics like this? To specify a constant, like all Ds are always to be played p and all Fs to always be played fff?
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If there’s a composer/musician/artist you admire, message them + let them know, it could come at just the right moment + potentially lift them out of something, reminding them of why they do what they do + that their creative existence is meaningful to someone.
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@ThreatNotation
Okay, I was about to go to bed then I saw this, so here's my first attempt made whilst falling asleep
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My only regret in life is that I won't live long enough to be the dick that shouts encore at the end
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I dropped 150 Bang Snaps onto manuscript paper
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Still can't get over Philip Glass writing this - what he put that singer through was a new low for him 🤯
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Just a normal day in the office playing a tea towel score by
@andyingamells
with a child’s train whistle stuffed in my gob, as you were.
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Previously unseen photos of Stravinsky working on The Rake's Progress
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@shipdrummer
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I once wrote a piece with the instruction to play infinitely loud...
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Absolutely fucking not!
Who would do this?!
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Top tip for composers to fight loneliness whilst writing: make little characters to keep you company.
Nathaniel III can be quite serious until he's put away a few Crème de Menthes and then he becomes unstoppable. Cor Anglais? More like Cor AngSLAY!
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when you're adding *nothing* to a conversation but you move your head about a lot
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Can I use this time signature yet?
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【D】【E】【B】【U】【S】 【S】【Y】【I】【N】 【B】【I】【O】
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Imagine being a composer and writing shit like this, what a way to make a living!
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@TimIsTooShort
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My music is already pretty small Tim, I'm not sure what you want from me 😂
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@PianoJordy
It's a good chord, sure, sure... but it's not meaty enough for me, let's try this one instead
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I went through several hours of Cage talking and removed all the words
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Never uploading anything ever again because nothing will ever beat this - goodbye everyone! 😂
Cathy Berberian - Ticket to ride
The Beatles/Louis Andriessen
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Appropriate typo in the third movement of Bach's Italian Concerto
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@ThreatNotation
if anyone is interested, this is a 11,972,621,413,014,756,705,924,586,149,611,790,497,021,399,392,059,392nd note 🤓
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f = loud
ff = very loud
sf = suddenly loud
sff = suddenly very loud
ffs = actually have to practice
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The Beatles missed a trick with "When I'm 64" by not using exclusively second inversion chords
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-273°C is absolute zero
273 seconds is 4'33''
So here's John Cage as Mr. Freeze in Batman & Robin
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Apparently some people can see a face in this ordinary photo
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Publishers + editors sometimes make errors in printed music, I've been collecting a few from my Beethoven Sonatas 🧵
1/12 Here's a cheesy one to get us going:
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"This piece was written in four flats, as Rachmaninov had to move four times whilst he wrote it"
- Victor Borge
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Complete score of Cornelius Cardew's Treatise
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I *really* wanted to buy this today but it was a want and not a need and so didn’t but now regret it 🤪
You know what it is, right?
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How David Bedford pissed off Pierre Boulez by misinterpreting the words "audience participation" 😂
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900 days ago I started writing a novel.
120 days ago I decided to rewrite it.
8000 hours of my life.
Today I finished it.
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Composers, did you know if you put these notes in your piece that you can actually charge 420% MORE for commissions?
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@bobmayfield1
You’re going to be so embarrassed when I tell you it’s actually supposed to be an A quadruple sharp 😛
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@Demodestroier
that's enough note reading for today then, here, look, I've taken these away for you, so chill.
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This bar is equivalent to the FIVE GOLD RINGS line in 12 Days of Christmas, in that if you’re playing it, other pianists always run into the room and join in
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Berio arranged 4 Beatles songs for voice and instruments in the sixties
Takemitsu arranged 4 Beatles songs for solo guitar in the seventies
Which other composers have done something similar?
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You've heard of Elf on the Shelf now get ready for...
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I will write your name on this piece of manuscript paper + then reply with a photo of it 😋
Just like this tweet! If your Twitter name isn’t your real name, respond with the name you want to see 😀
I’ll then get this printed onto a t-shirt + wear it to concerts + gigs 🥳
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Something about this bar in Mozart's K41 that really gives me the heebie-jeebies...
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Had an interview today and got hired! They liked the cut of my jig!
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If I don't score wearing this tonight then... 😬
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Composers, if you have an album out, I will buy it and retweet the link - shout the deets at me!
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"If they weren't such a good composer their music would be unbearable."
Which composer said this about which other composer?! If you can get one of them, I'll give you the other!
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@MusicOfLee
Rachmaninov would have played the original with a single thumbnail on one hand 🙃
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Is there a way to turn off Robert Komaniecki's posts? It's getting really annoying.
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There are an infinite number of ways to write the same basic thing and that creative variety is where the beauty lies, so...
Musicians of Twitter: write a C Major scale in a way that pleases, tickles, illustrates, enlightens, profounds or angers you!
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@ThomasHicken
Oh boy, strap yourself in! For I have made more hurty soul dirty eye monstrosities for you Thomas!
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Discovering Morton Feldman’s music 20 years ago completely changed my life and my music so to now own his jacket and be able to wear it is blowing my mind! 🥲
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Guys, I don't want to brag but I managed to perfectly replicate not just Schiff's Mozart but Uchida's too ... at exactly the same time!
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My piano addiction has recently gotten out of hand so I’ve joined a 2-step program. Please, no jokes at this difficult time.
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@stuart_macrae
Minute 1: taste of despair
Minute 2: taste of card
Minute 3: taste of my own teeth
Minute 4: salted anxiety
Minute 5: Loyd Grossman’s keyhole (a euphemism? Only my hairdresser knows for sure!)
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this is from page one of Rachmaninov's book he wrote for children learning the piano
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Scrunched up some manuscript paper and then went over the creases
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@NotationIsGreat
Sketches by Charles Babbage for his calculating engines - he was a graphic score composer and never even knew it (!)
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Which composers do you watermark your manuscript paper with to force focus?
And if you're thinking "that's not a thing" then you're wrong, all the proper composers watermark their manuscript with composer faces.
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