Modern Music And Retarded Baby Animals

Last Semester, I had to write a piece for unaccompanied clarinet.  I named it Retarded Baby Animals because that's what I thought atonal chamber music sounds like.  It will be premiered April 17th in the School of Music Recital Hall.

Movements:

I: Victor The Mutant Penguin From The Nigerian Tundra

(named after my friend Victor, who actually is from Nigeria)

II: Timothy The Turtle Zombie

(named after my friend Tim, and contains elements from the Turtles' "Happy Together" and the Zombies' "Time Of The Season)

III: Christopher The Almost Flying Squirrel

(named after my friend Miggles)

IV: Jordan The Afro'd Platypus

(named after my friend Jordan, though I don't chill with him as much as I used to.)

It will be premiered by Melissa Morales, and I'm actually meeting up with her today to tell her it's fine no matter what she plays.

That's the thing with modern music- it's all about the titles.

With my new piece, like most pieces of modern music, the title is everything, and the music is nothing.

Here's the titles of different pieces of music, and the points of the title for each.

The Beatles- "She Loves You"- See now you remember the song's hook, which goes "She loves you yeah yeah yeah."

Beethoven- "Symphony #5 In C minor"- It's the fifth symphony he wrote.  And it happens to be in the key of C Minor.  Fancy that.

Dead Kennedys- "We've Got A Bigger Problem Now"- The song was an updated version of "California Uber Alles", but the Dead Kennedys believed that President Ronald Reagan was a bigger problem than Governor Jerry Brown, the subject of the original "California Uber Alles", was.

James Hunter- "Retarded Baby Animals"- to make people laugh and forget how shitty the piece is.