miserere

The thing is fizzbuzz is like Miserere Mei - it's a quick proxy for a form of literacy.

The Allegri Miserere gets used whenever a movie soundtrack needs some sacred choral music.

Mozart became famous at the age of 14 by transcribing Allegri's Miserere from memory after hearing it performed in the Sistine Chapel.

Similarly, Mozart copied down Allegri's Miserere after hearing it just once in 1770.

There's a story about Allegri's Miserere, the subject of the most famous act of music piracy in history: The Miserere was the personal property of the Pope, and would-be copyists of the work were threatened with excommunication.

There a story that when in Rome the young Mozart of 14 listened to Gregorio Allegri’s famous Miserere and afterwards wrote it down note for note from memory.

Well I was referring to Allegri' Miserere in particular which is not a classical piece of Music, yet Mozart was able to transcribe it from memory after hearing it only once.

The important point about this story is that the Church so revered the wonderful Miserere that it kept its score secret so it could only be performed in Rome, so Mozart had no other choice but to memorize it.

Even "unpublished" works can be recreated by those with talent, like Mozart and Allegri’s Miserere.

"Miserere mei, Deus" is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard and I'm not religious nor do I understand the language it's written in.

>In about 1220, the rite of public penance in Siena for those who had committed murder required the penitent to throw himself on the ground three times, saying: Mea culpa; peccavi; Domine miserere mei ("Through my fault.

We'll disregard people who are capable of working with compiled binaries; consider them modern-day transcribers of Miserere.

Miserere, the music, is typical of the cathedral songs and is pretty old (centuries).

And sometimes you get a child prodigy Mozart illegally transcribing Miserere.