{"id":292,"date":"2012-09-25T14:19:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T07:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/?p=292"},"modified":"2015-09-24T16:05:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T09:05:27","slug":"year-2-haydns-big-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/year-2-haydns-big-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2 &#8211; Haydn&#8217;s Big Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Franz Josef Haydn was so fed up with his audiences falling asleep that he made a piece of music with a loud bang in the middle of it. His aim was to make the point that his music should be listened to properly, with what we call &#8216;active listening&#8217;. He was half joking &#8211; and his music became known as &#8220;The Surprise Symphony&#8221;. He liked jokes though, as one time he made music called &#8220;The Farewell Symphony&#8221; and one by one the performers leave the stage until there are just two instruments left! It was said that he wanted more money from his boss and was sending a message that he would leave if he didn&#8217;t get it!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p_ftrysaMHU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franz Josef Haydn was so fed up with his audiences falling asleep that he made a piece of music with a loud bang in the middle of it. His aim was to make the point that his music should be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/year-2-haydns-big-surprise\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[368812,689],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","category-year-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}