MEDICINE AND ANATOMY IN CLASSICAL MUSIC
- Haydn's "I'm Pregnant" Symphony
- Beethoven's psoriasis period
- clipped and cauterized wing scene from Wagner's "Flying Dutchmen"
- J.S. Bach's Leprosy Cantata
- Benjamin Britten's vaccinated song cycles
- Corelli's grand sonata in F-sharp Major for piano and colorectal coninuo
- Dmitri Infectionovich Shostakovich
- Rachmaninoff's Elegy for the Terminally Ill Piano
- "Triple Bypass Hamburger Waltz", by Schumann
- Antonio Stradavari, violin no. 145 - "The Brain"
- Dvořák's concerto for endoscopy
- piece for conceptual muscle fiber, by John Cage
- bowel movement from Tchaikovsky's sixth symphony
- Herbert von Cataracts and the Bifocal Philharmonic
- colonoscopy scene from "Tanhauser"
- Modest "The Membrane" Moussorgsky
- Mahler's "Kinderelbowleider"
- surgical spoon solo in Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra
- famous two-measure bassoon passage as leitmotif for herniated disc, in Wagner's Ring Cycle
- "Huntington's Syndrome Paesant Dances", by Janáček
- popular movement to re-introduce the ad lib cadenza in modern neurosurgery
2 comments:
Hunting's Syndrome Peasant Dances always separate the men from the boys, as they say. I think you forgot the Symphony in F# from Stravinsky's "asthmatic" period.
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