There's Something Wrong Here, Orchestral Version

[+ quoththeraven]

Seen on Twitter:

I hope this is either a fake or a trick question. (Also I saw some responses saying 40 minutes is too fast for the entire Ninth Symphony.)

 

Have at it.

 

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[bostonman]

Even the infamous Benjamin Zander recording (where he plays with tempi to a sometimes ridiculous extent, though he explains all his choices according to how he interprets Beethoven's metronome markings) isn't anywhere near 40 mins, lol.

 

I'd say the average performance is more like an hour and 15 or so. In fact, there's a common story that the length of recording time on a CD (74 minutes) was set because Beethoven's 9th could then fit on one CD.

 

The logic of the orchestra size vs. time question is more ridiculous than a trump tweet. The music takes the same amount of time no matter who's playing it.

[+ quoththeraven]

@bostonman - The logic of the orchestra size vs. time question is more ridiculous than a trump tweet. The music takes the same amount of time no matter who's playing it.

That's what hit me immediately. Either this was a trick question or the person who devised it has no understanding of how an orchestra (or music) works.

[+ honcho]

Either this was a trick question or the person who devised it has no understanding of how an orchestra (or music) works.

 

Or the tweet was deliberately making fun of math words problems.

[+ quoththeraven]

Or the tweet was deliberately making fun of math words problems.

It definitely was. But the exam question looks real. I was talking about the person who devised that, not the tweet itself.