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Who Pays the Piper? (Music)
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Who Pays the Piper? is a 45-minute "poem with music" written in 1983 by the British songwriter and musician Richard Stilgoe (who is most famous for collaborating with Andrew Lloyd Webber), and submitted as the BBC's entry to the 1991 Prix Monte-Carlo. The poem is written throughout in iambic pentameter in rhyming couplets, and is interspersed with classical music excerpts, some of which have humorously re-written lyrics. It details parts of the history of Western music, with an emphasis on the dilemmas arising from the business aspects of maintaining the artist. In its definitive realisation, the poem was narrated by Michael Williams, with music provided by the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Andrew Greenwood, and several singers including Stilgoe himself.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); }) | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Humans burn themselves (and their environment) out while failing to resolve the eternal dilemma of how to maintain the artist with his "mission to explain, that happiness lies in my soul, in me - not cast in chipboard from a chainsawed tree." But on the other hand, music is free and continues forever, even after mankind has gone. | |
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The segment on how composers died - Anton Webern shot by a "nervous GI" while smoking after curfew, Charles Alkan having a bookcase fall on him,note This theory is disputed. Ernest Chausson falling off his bicycle, Alexander Scriabin dying from "a septic pimple". The treatment of Jean-Baptiste Lully's death, however, takes the cake: after describing his death from gangrene after striking his foot with a baton during a performance, a light-hearted bar of Delibes pizzicato plays, ending with rhythmically precise "thump merde!" | |
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Anachronic Order: Played for laughs, and lampshaded. The work presents itself as going through the history of music, but after briefly beginning with an outline of the evolution of Pan's flute music to the music of Olivier Messiaen: And slightly later: | |
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Apocalypse How: Class 3b is part of the poem's Bittersweet Ending. | |
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