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Frank Zappa Handwritten Sheet Music. Two-pages of sheet music for the keyboard part of "Kung Fu", handwritten in black ink by Zappa circa 1972. The track was unreleased until compiled for the 1996 posthumous LP The Lost Episodes. In Very Fine condition. Accompanied by James Spence Authentication auction LOA.




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Beautiful script. Sort of gives you a sense of how much care he put into all his music.

It would have taken him at least an hour to write this, even if he was just copying it from another manuscript. I don't see any corrections at all on here, so my guess would be that it took more like two hours for him to write this.

How much would you pay for two hours of Frank Zappa's time?

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It's amazing he didn't have to make any visible corrections... I'd love to see a larger version though... attempt to play it...

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Frank did more in two hours than me in all my life.


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Estimate $640 - $960
Starting Bid $400

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Je suis désolé pour les roles que j'ai joué dans toutes ces videos, ce n'est pas tres valorisant pour l'humanité mais si cela peut avoir fait progresser la science, alors il y aura eu un coté positif.

There's other stuff there.
A handwritten note from FZ to Herb Cohen:


Eight pages of FZ's handwritten RDNZL:


I don't know. It looks real. But I don't bid.

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I find it interesting in the the dutch documentary from 1971 how he is making corrections on a score: he is working with a cutter and cutting out pieces and maybe pasting in corrections later. Also he is not working hastily, but slowly and concentrated.

Th.

Yeah I think that concentration bit is the difference between his hand-written music and my hand-written music.

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I had been using Coda Finale for a while to generate music on paper from sequenzer demos but have returned to handwritten sheets and scores later. Gives you more freedom to decide what and how to notate. Handwriting is more flexible.

Th.

I wonder how many pages Frank did in total, i take a guess 2000 pages ?

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Je suis désolé pour les roles que j'ai joué dans toutes ces videos, ce n'est pas tres valorisant pour l'humanité mais si cela peut avoir fait progresser la science, alors il y aura eu un coté positif.

Yeah Finale sucks... it's only usable if you want to get something in print and need it to look ace. For composing etc a Composer like Noteworthy is much more userfriendly.

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It is amazing how dedicated he was to produce something of that high quality and attention to detail. Ruth Underwood talks about it in the Classic Albums DVD (I think in the extras) about his score for Rollo that he (paraphrasing) "threw together on the plane."

I forget where I read it but Zappa once said he enjoyed looking at and copying sheet music as a graphic art form at a young age long before he knew what any of it actually described, knowing only it was "written music".

--Bat

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We recently acquired two original Frank Zappa music manuscripts, and a lead sheet for a third composition, all of which were handwritten by the great man himself. The two original manuscripts are untitled, and the lead sheet is for Arabesque, a 1966 song we can find no reference for. (These originated from the collection of ex-Mothers road manager Marty Perelis.)


“The Rejected Mexican Pope Leaves the Stage”


“Music For Electric Violin And Low Budget Orchestra” from Jean-Luc Ponty’s King Kong album


“Arabesque” was released later under the title “Toads Of The Short Forest.”

https://recordmecca.com/news/reward-can-you-identify-these-frank-zappa-manuscripts/

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