IJMC - Ghastly Beethoven

Tonight's post is timely in several ways...it's about a dead man in a 
graveyard which kinda hints toward our Halloween...it's about symphony 
which I'm going to tomorrow night...and it's a bad joke, which fits the 
hour. I went in for my last day at eight am. At two am I left. But...I 
don't have to go back on Monday! Yipee!                           -dave





 
 A tourist in Vienna is going through a graveyard and all of
 a sudden he hears some music. No one is around, so he starts
 searching for the source. He finally locates the origin and
 finds it is coming from a grave with a headstone that
 reads: Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827.
 
 Then he realizes that the music is the Ninth Symphony and it
 is being played backward! Puzzled, he leaves the graveyard
 and persuades a friend to return with him. By the time they
 arrive back at the grave, the music has changed. This time
 it is the Seventh Symphony, but like the previous piece, it
 is being played backward. Curious, the men agree to consult
 a music scholar.
 
 When they return with the expert, the Fifth Symphony is
 playing, again backward. The expert notices that the
 symphonies are being played in the reverse order in which
 they were composed, the 9th, then the 7th, then the 5th.
 By the next day the word has spread and a throng has
 gathered around the grave. They are all listening to the
 Second Symphony being played backward. Just then the
 graveyard's caretaker ambles up to the group.
 Someone in the group asks him if he has an explanation
 for the music.
 
 "Don't you get it?" the caretaker says incredulously.
 
 [Guess now, before scrolling down for the answer]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 No cheating, make a guess before scrolling
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Not even a wild guess before scrolling?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 He's decomposing.