Top Ten Signs You May Have Just Written a Mahler Symphony<\/p>\n
10. Somewhere in the world, someone is already arguing over which order the middle movements should be played in.<\/p>\n
9. You have set a new world record for most grace notes in a first violin part.<\/p>\n
8. 15 year-old boys are already practicing the trumpet parts really, really loudly before their high school orchestra rehearsals, where they will be playing Sleigh Ride.<\/p>\n
7. You\u2019ve already gone back and put 500 fortepiano markings in the brass parts<\/p>\n
6. You\u2019ve just written a footnote explaining that \u201cthe Luftpause notated above should not be so long that it actually sounds like a Luftpause, nor so short that it doesn\u2019t sound almost like a Luftpause<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n 5. Someone has already started an arrangement for string quintet, clarinet and harmonium, and you don\u2019t even know what a harmonium is.<\/p>\n 4. The contralto repertoire has just expanded by 6.23%<\/p>\n 3. A Hans Rott aficionado has already identified at least 11 instances or plagiarism from the Rott Symphony in E, including your blatant use of the pitch \u201cmiddle c.\u201d<\/p>\n 2. Your conductor friends seem a little put out when you keep bragging that \u201cthe damnable Scherzo will prove un-conductable for the next 100 years! Everyone will take it too fast!\u201d<\/p>\n 1. Your wife couldn\u2019t resist pointing out that you forgot to end the symphony in the tonic key\u2026.. AGAIN!<\/p>\n