6 Scary Stories About Music: How I Selected These Stories

Surely there are hundreds of stories of composers and producers and music that is scary. Here's how I selected the few that we're going to look at in this short little class. First, I didn't want to focus on music about scary stuff. There's a lot of music that has really dark program notes or lyrics or subject matter that I could talk about for hours and hours and hours and hours, but I didn't want to do that. I wanted to focus on kind of the lore around music, which is what this class is really about. Now, balancing that with. I didn't want to tell any of the stories that were particularly gruesome, and they do exist. There are a number of stories in the canon of, especially of classical music that are rough. I mean, like rough. And I wanted this to stay fairly family friendly. If you want to go down a Google rabbit hole, though, I encourage you to look up the composer Jeswaldo, just to name one. So these are myths. Some of them based in fact, some of them just rumors about musicians, composers, music itself that have been associated with curses or hauntings or. Or sometimes death. So while I did try to keep this family friendly and light, there are some. Some kind of gruesome things in here. So let me do one other video where I just do a little bit of a content warning. I'm just going to kind of warn you what you're going to see in this. In this class. Here we go.