If Death Waltz Was a Waltz

“Last Brutal Sister Flandre S”, also referred to as “U.N. Owen was Her?” is a song from Touhou 6: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, which was arranged into a Black MIDI, and is recognised one of the first Black MIDI compositions. Due to reasons unbeknownst to me, the piece is often mislabelled as “Death Waltz”, despite neither being a waltz, nor having any deaths associated with it.

To correct this, I created my magnum opus: If Death Waltz was a Waltz, a rearrangement of the piece into 3/4 time, with such awful instrumentation that it is likely to cause at least one death at some point in the future.

In particular, the arrangement features:

• Piano
• Another Piano
• Violin
• Balalaika (whatever that is)
• Clavichord
• Bagpipes
• Electric guitar
• Out-of-tune oboe (like in real life)
• Kazoo
• Vocals, but like, the MIDI sound-font type
• Church organ
• Crash cymbal
• About 6 trombones
• And much more…

About half-way through the piece, there is a key change, but I intentionally made some of the “musicians” “forget” to change key.

It all culminates in what I believe is the worst chord I have ever written, all for your listening pleasure.

Downloads

I don’t have a MIDI file download. Instead, you get to enjoy the MuseScore file that I worked in, which (based on the horrific rendering of the glissandi) I believe has been exported to and imported from MIDI format several times, with varying levels of data corruption. I consider this to be the definitive way to enjoy this masterpiece. If you are using MuseScore 4, make sure to leave MuseSounds enabled because I think that using a good sound library makes this even funnier.

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