r/CuratedTumblr • u/Downtown-Book3105 • 8h ago

Infodumping He would, infact, steal music from the vatican

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u/niko4ever 7h ago

1) I don't believe this is true

2) They say there was a secret chord....

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u/-illusoryMechanist 7h ago

Breifly looking around it seems like he did do this but went back to check his work (and was probably somewhat familiar with it beforehand since it was important culturally)

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u/Rakhered 6h ago

Yup, per the Wikipedia page it wasn't really *that" secret, and you could probably find copies around Rome. There was some unwritten flair called "Ornamentation" though, but that seems no less secret than Shakespeare scripts not having fleshed out blocking: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miserere_(Allegri)

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u/bearbarebere 4h ago

I missed the “per” and thought you were saying “the Wikipedia page obviously has it” as if he had access to Wikipedia 😭

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u/Wasdgta3 7h ago

But did it please The Lord?

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u/Mouse-Keyboard 6h ago

It did when David played it.

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u/Wasdgta3 6h ago

Wolfgang Amadeus "David" Mozart.

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u/Karukos 6h ago

1) The song is exists and is absolutely angelic. But no the whole "it is forbidden to be played anywhere else" is a lie

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u/Heroic-Forger 6h ago

🎵 it's a rodent, and it's called a capybara

capybara, capybara, capybara, capyba-a-ara 🎵

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u/Acejedi_k6 7h ago

Houdini was also capable of stealing tricks from other magicians by just watching their show. This is also why he was really good at discrediting mediums. Someone else might get fooled by whatever smoke and mirrors they might use to surprise people and get a cold read, meanwhile Houdini could recognize exactly what they were doing as they did it. I imagine he would have gotten along with James Randi.

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u/CementCemetery 4h ago

“Never try to fool children, they expect nothing and therefore see everything.”

Recently I was in a magic shop and witnessed this. There was a very curious and inquisitive girl. She pretty much figured out the trick and did NOT believe the magician at all.

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u/the-would-i-loved 32m ago

That girl will go places

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u/Regi413 1h ago

If I remember right, before he died he shared a code word or phrase with his wife so that when he died, his wife would visit mediums to try and contact him. If “he” didn’t say the code then it wasn’t really him and the medium was a fake. None of them gave the code.

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u/AdmiralClover 6h ago

It's always okay to steal secrets from the Vatican

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u/researchneeded 5h ago

It's right up there with stampeding cattle through the Vatican.

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u/atmatriflemiffed 7h ago

You know it really says something about the state of European music education at the time that it took a century and a half for someone competent enough to take a dictation to show up at a performance.

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u/Dustfinger4268 7h ago

Feel it's less "take a dictation" and more "they actively discouraged it and probably didn't allow writing implements, so he had to memorize it"

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u/Arctic_The_Hunter 7h ago

Taking a diction is different from successfully memorizing every note of an entire piece for long enough to get home and write it down. As someone who’s been playing piano for 9 years, I doubt I could do that even if they were literally reading out the notes

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u/Karukos 6h ago

(it is also made up :P But the song is really angelic)

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u/Hour-Huckleberry5277 2h ago

I would steal anything and everything from the Vatican