Estimates on the number of notes in Sorabji's OC

[pianoplayjl]

  My dumbest thread to date. Ha ha!! Any ideas and estimates?

[perfect_pitch]

I'd say the number > my ability to give a sh*t.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Millions?  You would be surprised how many notes are in pieces that aren't really that noty!

[thorn]

There are 16,206 notes in the first 18/19 bars of Ravel's Lever du jour (Daphnis et Chloe). According to Bernstein.

Random fact of about as much use to this thread as this thread is to anyone here!

[fftransform]

About as dumb as most of them.

[thalbergmad]

About a million too many

[black_keys]

Each page contains about 350 notes and the entire work is 247 pages
the number of notes in total is 350x247=~86500 notes 

[ahinton]

1. Why OC in particular?
2. Who cares?

I don't know the answer to 1. but, since I'm certain that those pianists who've actually played it (five to date, including the composer, of whom three are still with us) couldn't care/have cared less, why would anyone else?

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

five to date, including the composer

Six. I played it this afternoon.

Thal

[thorn]

The smart arse response would be 12...

[jtguru]

The smart arse response would be 12...

But that's the number of pitch classes, not the number of notes 

[thorn]

But that's the number of pitch classes, not the number of notes 

touché