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    Amadeus - "There are simply too many notes."

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    4 HN mentions · mentioned in 3 months, 2015–2022

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    1:36 · 2.3M views · Nov 10, 2008

    A 2-minute scene from the film Amadeus in which the emperor says Mozart's opera has simply too many notes and Mozart asks which few to cut.

    HN quotes the scene humorously and analogically, for example about extremely dense Black MIDI music or whether melodies are scarce.

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    4 comments from Hacker News

    1. @baldfatNov 2015· in “The Impossible Music of Black MIDI (2013)”

      I immediately thought of a quote from the movie Amadaus (About Mozart) EMPEROR: Of course I do. It's very good. Of course now and then - just now and then - it gets a touch elaborate. MOZART: What do you mean, Sire? EMPEROR: Well, I mean occasionally it seems to have, how shall one say? [he stops in difficulty; turning to Orsini-Rosenberg] How shall one say, Director? ORSINI-ROSENBERG: Too many notes, Your Majesty? EMPEROR: Exactly. Very well put. Too many notes. MOZART: I don't understand. There are just as many notes, Majesty, as are required. Neither more nor less. EMPEROR: My dear fellow, there are in fact only so many notes the ear can hear in the course of an evening. I think I'm right in saying that, aren't I, Court Composer? SALIERI: Yes! yes! er, on the whole, yes, Majesty. MOZART: But this is absurd! this video This certainly is an interesting area to explorer musically. Want can we do with a piano if we had more than ten notes to play at a time. Right now it is HOW many can we play and still sound musical from the samples I saw.

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    2. @baldfatNov 2015· in “The Impossible Music of Black MIDI”

      I immediately thought of a quote from the movie Amadaus (About Mozart) EMPEROR: Of course I do. It's very good. Of course now and then - just now and then - it gets a touch elaborate. MOZART: What do you mean, Sire? EMPEROR: Well, I mean occasionally it seems to have, how shall one say? [he stops in difficulty; turning to Orsini-Rosenberg] How shall one say, Director? ORSINI-ROSENBERG: Too many notes, Your Majesty? EMPEROR: Exactly. Very well put. Too many notes. MOZART: I don't understand. There are just as many notes, Majesty, as are required. Neither more nor less. EMPEROR: My dear fellow, there are in fact only so many notes the ear can hear in the course of an evening. I think I'm right in saying that, aren't I, Court Composer? SALIERI: Yes! yes! er, on the whole, yes, Majesty. MOZART: But this is absurd! this video This certainly is an interesting area to explorer musically. Want can we do with a piano if we had more than ten notes to play at a time. Right now it is HOW many can we play and still sound musical from the samples I saw.

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    3. @hilbert42May 2022· in “How many melodies are there? (2014)”

      There's never been any shortage of melodies, rather the problem is and has always been whether one has the talent to arrange the notes: this video ?

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    4. @arthurcolleJul 2021· in “How to manually merge two Apple IDs to one (2020)”

      I just noticed what you were saying - yes lol, delete the account that you've migrated stuff off of. Good catch, too many numbers. this video

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