A curated collection of handwritten notes left by musicians on their music copies. DM Submissions welcome.
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ALT THIS ALT TEXT CONTAINS A NAUGHTY WORD. (But it's not like you weren't warned this account may include these.) A score of Holst's Hecuba's Lament, on which someone has successfully made an anagram of the title: "Mabel, he's a cunt".
ALT An instrumental score on which during a 10 bar rest someone has added the note: "take staccato sticks + shove 'em up _ _ _ _".
ALT A copy of the hymn "Father, We Thank Thee" on which someone has written "Under thread of excommunication, fire, plague, and death: DO NOT PLAY THIS HARMONY."
ALT A copy of the end of the Jackson in G Mag Gloria, on which for the top A flat unison Amen, someone has added to the sop line, "+ ALTOS".
ALT A violin 1 copy of Der Nussknacker, CASSE-NOISETTE, on which someone has scribbled out the C and E from CASSE and the last TTE from NOISETTE, leaving it reading ASS-NOISE.
ALT In a copy of Finzi's Lo, the Full Final Sacrifice, the second sop part during the Amen, when they go up to the E, but singing piano, someone has written, "if you mess this up you will be SHOT. NO JOKE." The last three words have been underlined for dramatic emphasis.
ALT A music copy on which, in the blank space under the music, someone has drawn a dolphin saying "hi I'm a friendly dolphin" to which a horse holding a surfboard (or possibly a plank of wood) replies "omg a talking dolphin".
ALT A copy of music on which someone has added the following account: "Shortly after rehearsing this, Ten Can II was (apparently) violently sick, passed out, and was carried off in an ambulance. 5.6.91."
ALT A score in C sharp major (or A sharp minor) - with seven sharps in the key signature - has had the words "stupid key signature" written above it.
ALT A music score on which someone has written at the end of the page "divven't turn (nowt to sing)".
ALT A copy of Wesley's Blessed be the God and Father on which someone has unkindly written "our librarian stinks of shit!".
ALT A copy of a Requiem on which someone has written the word HUGE" in appropriately sized letters over a section marked "ff tutta forza".
ALT The post text ends "think of the money", which someone has written in a score of Rossini's Messe Solennelle.
ALT The front page of Howells' Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense, on which many annotations have been added to indicate the singer's dislike of the piece, including "AWFUL!" and the more poorly-spelled, "ORFULL".
ALT The hymn "Love's redeeming work is done" to which someone has changed the last word of the line "ours the cross, the grave, the skies" to "pies".
ALT A copy of John IV Crux on which has been drawn a bed with someone asleep, "the most boringest man eva" and at the end "at last".
ALT The Victoria Passion, where the line "if thou let this man go" has had the word "fruity!" added to it.
