Awfully Aud

Audrey Alltop - Singer, voice teacher, artist, and seamstress. This blog is mostly for showcasing my music, but the art and sewing will make an occasional appearance as well.

[awfullyaud]

a summary of the main periods of music

renaissance: MODES MODES MoDEs and lets make everything blend and ooOHH lots of chords yes yes many chords buT WE OVER-COMPLICATE EVERYTHING

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baroque: one melodic idea aND THEN WE TEAR IT APART WITH OUR FUGUES AND CONTRAPUNTAl and ornaments. homophonic? try poly. jumpscare dyNAMics and we have no pauses you keep playing till you die

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classical: e v e n s i m p l er! one melody and all the lesser important parts below it. and wE SLOWLY FAde intO DYNAMICs. piano! orchestra!??!!! PIANO!!!!!!! OMFG ITS A PIaNO!!!! ew harpsichord whoa moZART

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romantic: acccceelerando nO WAIt i want ritardandoooOO jokes. so free! so emotional! the tears and the feels uGH. REVOLUTIONS AS WELL. why's this orchestra so pathetic lETS ADD 784 NEW INSTRUMENTS!! and i want it to be so hard no one can play it

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20th century: a boop bap dap and a dippity do lookie do its jazz! and yes that accidental is meant to be there. also ignore the septuplets just play with it. also i wonder what happens if we hit different instruments. ok that soup bowl is now a percussion instrument. anD EVERYTHING IS SO COMPLEX HAHA PEASANTS SUFFeR!!

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neoclassical 'new-age': bo oop bOp bIP BIEEEEEEEEP dInK!!!!(\(!!(!!$(($ DINK DINK DINK Dndfy *cats meowing harshly* *car crashes into house* NYEEEAAAAAAAAHHJHhhHHH

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Happy holidays. 

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One day, Our goodbyes Will turn into Sleepy goodnights Escaping our tired lips. Our can I call you’s? Will turn into Come here and hold me’s. Our things Won’t be mine or yours anymore. One day, I’ll scream in the middle of the night, And you Will pull me close; tell me everything’s alright And I’ll fall asleep. Safe. One day, You’ll come home And tell me we need to get groceries, We’ll make a list, and tape it to the fridge But tomorrow we’ll forget it there And you’ll blame me, And I’ll blame you And we’ll spend a hundred because We couldn’t remember. And were both too damn impulsive. One day, You’ll understand every aspect Of my condition But love me all the more. And I’ll treasure you, Hold your hand everytime it gets bad Knowing I am okay, With you. One day, I’ll wake up in the morning, To the smell of cooking, I’ll come down the stairs Of a house we call ours, And I’ll kiss the love of my life Good morning As well as goodnight.

TheLionsPoet (via thelionspoet)

❤️

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Strongman

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[awfullyauddesigns]

New bag pattern I tried out, and I am totally in love with it! This bag is beautiful and sturdy, and it comes with a matching laptop bag and storage pouch!! I’m hoping the person receiving it as a gift loves it as much as I do.

The strap is adjustable via three sets of buttons.

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[awfullyaud]

When I did my student teaching/when I substituted it seemed like I always managed to grab that stand when I was conducting, and like it would start out fine, but by the end of the song I'd be staring at the ground, trying to see the music that I was blundering my way through, while also snapping my head up every two seconds to maintain eye contact with the choir.

Stand whiplash.

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[awfullyaud]

The noise I made just now was inhuman.

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If I was a coloratura soprano I’m pretty sure I would only sing Les Filles de Cadix and literally nothing else.

[awfullyaud]

I've never heard this song before, thank you so much for prompting me to listen to it. <3

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I FOUND IT GUYS I SPENT HALF AN HOUR LOOKING FOR THIS VIDEO AND ITS HERE

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WHAT IS THIS BIRD’S SPECIES THOUGH

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American Woodcock. DON’T ASK WHY A PERSON WHO HATES BIRDS KNOWS THIS.

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me on my way to deliver a kiss to u

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I JUST SAID OH MY GOD IN THE MOST SQUISHED UP VOICE I’VE  EVER USED OH NOOOO WIBWIBWIBW

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rockemsockemrocket, plz.

[awfullyaud]

I needed an adorable puppy picture. <3

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Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, kind people into zombies who can’t wash a dish or change their socks. It affects the ability to think clearly, to feel anything, to ascribe value to your children, your lifelong passions, your relative good fortune. It scoops out your normal healthy ability to cope with bad days and bad news, and replaces it with an unrecognizable sludge that finds no pleasure, no delight, no point in anything outside of bed. You alienate your friends because you can’t comport yourself socially, you risk your job because you can’t concentrate, you live in moderate squalor because you have no energy to stand up, let alone take out the garbage. You become pathetic and you know it. And you have no capacity to stop the downward plunge. You have no perspective, no emotional reserves, no faith that it will get better. So you feel guilty and ashamed of your inability to deal with life like a regular human, which exacerbates the depression and the isolation. Depression is humiliating. If you’ve never been depressed, thank your lucky stars and back off the folks who take a pill so they can make eye contact with the grocery store cashier. No one on earth would choose the nightmare of depression over an averagely turbulent normal life. It’s not an incapacity to cope with day to day living in the modern world. It’s an incapacity to function. At all. If you and your loved ones have been spared, every blessing to you. If depression has taken root in you or your loved ones, every blessing to you, too. Depression is humiliating. No one chooses it. No one deserves it. It runs in families, it ruins families. You cannot imagine what it takes to feign normalcy, to show up to work, to make a dentist appointment, to pay bills, to walk your dog, to return library books on time, to keep enough toilet paper on hand, when you are exerting most of your capacity on trying not to kill yourself. Depression is real. Just because you’ve never had it doesn’t make it imaginary. Compassion is also real. And a depressed person may cling desperately to it until they are out of the woods and they may remember your compassion for the rest of their lives as a force greater than their depression. Have a heart. Judge not lest ye be judged.

Pearl (via purplebuddhaproject)

This is the single best description of my head on a daily basis

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[awfullyaud]

Sedgewick: Beneath the Fireworks

Hi Friends, The day has finally come to unveil the workings of our first EP.  After months of tracking, editing and mixing, we are finally ready to give you a taste of our progress. Below is our first single called "Beneath the Fireworks," and we'd love to know what you think! Leave your comments here, or go to our Soundcloud and leave a comment on the track itself: https://soundcloud.com/sedgewick-1/beneath-the-fireworks-bounce-10414.  We hope you enjoy our music as much as we enjoy making it! Merci! SW

Guys, you should all go check out the new track from Sedgewick's first EP! I went to college with all three of the performers and not only are they all wonderful musicians, they are superb people, too. This song is so beautiful and I highly recommend checking them out and giving them whatever support you can.

[awfullyaud]

I'm so excited! Rob and I have been in our apartment for more than a month now and I'm finally getting my sewing room set up. It's still full of boxes, but I at least have a table with my machines on it. :)

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Thinking about making a new FNAF oc. I dunno what animal though.. Hmmm… What do you guys think?

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Karie the Koala? Garry the Goose xD And David the Dog? i tired lol

[nhrive]

Those are definitely some interesting ones. Maybe I’ll make this a vote. Do a few that you guys suggest and see which one you guys like

[awfullyaud]

A Weasel or a Ferret :) Willie the Weasel? Felicia the Ferret?

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rebejsg

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kienhas stajaws

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aidan mcyahhart

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spit=[p;odjrf]dyrr;

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jslt

jake

i was close

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Ckbfghk gjvfgz

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Artghf

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a8srey

Missed two letters. Two.

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So now when you do Alt + Reblog, the reblog symbol turns green, "explodes" and then disappears.

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I THOUGHT THIS WAS KIDDING SOGMLASG

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HOLY SHIT

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((Fuck, I’m on mobile))

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If you your on mobile you can just hold the reblog button down

[awfullyaud]

I'm finally in my own place and ready to record videos for you guys again!! This is just a quick one before I head to work, but it needed to be done. One of my students is learning this song and it has been stuck in my head for weeks.

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Conducting an ensemble for the first time

[awfullyaud]

My entire student teaching experience summed up in a gif set.