Have you tried playing a piece BACKWARDS?

[jhon]

I'm just curious what a certain piece would SOUND like if I play it (or at least sight-read) "backwards" (descending) - literally, as in you'll begin in the end-most note and you'll end at the very first note! 

(BTW, to the moderators, kindly MOVE this to "Performance" as I had the mistake of placing it under "Repertoire.")

[the_ts]

lol...we're not going to find satanic messages in Prokofiev are we? :p

[galonia]

cancrizans

[ako]

I have seen Jay Greenberg played a Beethoven sonata backwords and upside down on TV. He literally took the book and turned it upside down and started playing.

https://www.imgartists.com/?page=artist&id=597

[Tash]

i tried doing it with a chopin waltz once, didn't get very far cos i was doing it out of boredom. maybe i'll try it again...

[musik_man]

Back when subliminal messages in Rock'n'Roll was still an issue, Frank Zappa recorded the vocals to one track completely backwards.  Ya Hozna

[galonia]

This could quite possibly be in contention for the "worst topic in the history of pianostreet".


Bravo, jhon, you are a tremendous failure.

steinwayguy, this is so mean.  I don't think this is a bad topic - have you ever tried to write a piece where one part is exactly the reverse of the other part?  I have, and I've never got past 16 bars.  It's quite a hard thing to do, and then to make the piece actually sound good.  Try it.

[greyrune]

I have seen Jay Greenberg played a Beethoven sonata backwords and upside down on TV. He literally took the book and turned it upside down and started playing.

https://www.imgartists.com/?page=artist&id=597

Man that kid's amazing.  I think we'll definately be hearing more from him in the future.

As for the original topic i once heard a joke about this.  There's a student entering a composition competition and he's desperately looking for inspiration but nothing comes to him.  Finally it's the day before the presentation and he hasn't written a single note. He runs to his friend in tears,
"What can i do i've got nothing?"
"Well" replies the friend "just take one of your teachers compositions and play it backwards." 
"I already tried that," says the student "I got the moonlight sonata."

[musicsdarkangel]

This could quite possibly be in contention for the "worst topic in the history of pianostreet".


Bravo, jhon, you are a tremendous failure.

Why are you always such a d*ck?

[tenn]

Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, 18th variation.

[Dazzer]

that's just the theme. we're talking about literally backwards. every note.

[tenn]

that's just the theme. we're talking about literally backwards. every note.

I didn't see you talk about anything Dazzer, but please yourself.

[gorbee natcase]

how about playing the right in the left and left in the right

[TheRach]

I've tried, but failed.
I think Lionel Rogg suggests playing a piece backwards when studying it to achieve fluidity in playing.

[mikeyg]

Harry potter's respect for stienwayguy++

[rajordahl1]

I'm just curious what a certain piece would SOUND like if I play it (or at least sight-read) "backwards" (descending) - literally, as in you'll begin in the end-most note and you'll end at the very first note! 

(BTW, to the moderators, kindly MOVE this to "Performance" as I had the mistake of placing it under "Repertoire.")

Perhaps the most famous piece relative to this is the Renaissance chanson ( translated )   "My End is My Beginning " by Machaut, in which the second half is the exact reversal of the first half- and it works!

[bernhard]

aibophobia: the fear of palindromes.

https://www.creativekeyboard.com/jan02/palindrome.html
(An interesting article about musical palindromes with free sheet music)


https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/pages.html?cart=333069531611276930&target=smp_detail.html%26sku%3DMB.20125&s=pages-no-referrer&e=/sheetmusic/detail/MB.20125.html&t=&k=&r=wwws-err5
(Palindromes for piano – composed by Gail Smith amongst other aims to improve sight-reading).

Check out this guy: Sam Andreyev (He can speak backwards):

https://www.torporvigil.com/sambioblurb(addition).htm

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[happyface94]

I guess most strict music would work as they're composed on the same principle of starting with the I and V chords and ending with the V and I chords.

[BoliverAllmon]

I have seen Jay Greenberg played a Beethoven sonata backwords and upside down on TV. He literally took the book and turned it upside down and started playing.

https://www.imgartists.com/?page=artist&id=597

I laughed when I watched this on TV. They made it look like he was the only person in the world capable of doing that. If you can sight-read well, you can do it. Beethoven got pissed as someone once and stormed into his rehearsal stole the cello part to the piece he was performing, turned the music upside down and began improvising off the melody.