An Effective Meme
February 25th, 2008 Posted in classical music, shostakovich
via Musical Perceptions and Chandler Branch there is a list of alternative Mozart Effects doing the rounds. The original list contains tidbits such as:
LISZT EFFECT: Child speaks rapidly and extravagantly, but never really says anything important.
MAHLER EFFECT: Child continually screams – at great length and volume that he’s dying.
And via comments and editing at musical perceptions we have in addition:
RZEWSKI EFFECT: the child tells the teacher that s/he is a victim of capitalist society in 36 different ways.
BACH EFFECT: Child weaves multiple sentences into an eloquent whole that takes ages to be properly understood.
So I am going to submit:
SHOSTAKOVICH EFFECT: Child appears to work diligently, but on careful examination you find his work mostly consists of disguised remarks about how much he hates you.
Anyone else fancy a go?
February 25th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Nice!
March 17th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
If we expand it to jazz:
John Coltrane: Child yells in a shrill voice, rapidly and for exhaustive amounts of time.