Posted on 10/03/2007 4:39:47 PM PDT by Bob Leibowitz
You won't be hearing these notes played at Henry M. Jackson High School in Everett, Washington.
According to Federal Court Judge Robert Lasnik, Chief Judge of the Western District of Washington, students setting their fingers to keyboard while following these notes are breaking the law, and he has ordered them to stop.
Judge Lasnik, appointed to the bench by President Clinton in 1998, found these particular notes—without any lyrics—are so offensive that he upheld the order by the school district's associate superintendent that the school's wind ensemble not be allowed to perform the music.
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"(A)ll of us just picked the piece because we liked how it sounded," according to ensemble member and graduating senior Kathryn Nurre. "We had pretty much mastered it. It was just a piece of music."
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So, be careful. Merely humming a few notes in the wrong circumstances could land you in Judge Lasnik's pokey.
(Excerpt) Read more at Canticle4Leibowitz.com ...
If we take Ave Maria away from high school students, pretty soon only criminals will be able to play it.
Sorry, I don’t have time to read this tonight, I ‘ll bet they’re minor chords though.
What's the world coming to?
“Use a tritone, go to jail.”
Weren’t there some strange note combos that were illegal starting waaaay back in the medieval days at least? Notice the feelings of dread invoked with the beginning in “Iron Man” or esp. “War Pigs”. It is kinda wacky that playing that badly used to get one hanged or whatever.
I’ve always said that one of the best ways to study human personalities is to study the history of music. Or even graphic arts, too.
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