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@carriestreep
hate that i can't hang out in silence w online friends. sometimes when i'm not replying it's not in a "this conversation is over" way or in a "i'm too busy to reply" way. but in a "on all levels except physical my head is on your lap while we both silently scroll on our phones" way
The history of corporate propaganda.
'Nobody wants to work' fails to mention the poverty wages and horrible workplaces.
Reframe the narrative: Capitalists refuse to pay thriving wages.
John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison on stage at Star Club, Hamburg, 1962.
This is the oldest piece of music known to humankind. It’s engraved in cuneiform on a tablet from 1400 BC. And it was a hymn to their goddess Nikkal.
I wasn’t actually expecting something serious.
That was, um, actually unexpected.
What is this grand old instrument? It is almost ethereal to my ears!
I wish more ancient music was written down. It’d be interesting to study it!
Only 15th century BC kids will remember this bop
It would’ve likely originally been played on a sammûm, a bit like a lyre, in accompaniment of a singer.
Whilst its the oldest piece of music, it’s not complete (I believe the oldest complete song is the Seikilos Epitaph), so it’s transcription is controversial; there are a few differing decipherments.
The fact that this recording exists is nothing short of miraculous when you consider all of the background work that you have to do before you put a lyrist in front of a staff-notation transcription. This article will tell you about it in exhaustive detail: https://musicircle.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Babylonian-Notatin-and-the-Hurrian-Melodic-Texts_Music-and-Letters-1994-WEST-161-79.pdf
In short, here are some of the things a musicologist would have to do in order to get to the point where you can start looking for someone who plays an ancient Mesopotamian lyre (yes, the sammûm is a type of lyre):
1. Find the tablets. 2. Know enough cuneiform to identify the language, the culture, the time period, and the fact that this is music notation, which was vanishingly rare in a culture where people wrote with a stylus on wet clay. 3. Know what instruments people played and how they were used. 4. Figure out how many strings this instrument had and how they were tuned. This is harder than it looks because, while instruments can sometimes survive millennia, strings tend not to survive, and as any string player knows, tuning often doesn’t survive a single performance. 5. Figure out the tuning system – our Western even-tempered scale is a recent invention. J.S. Bach composed the Well-Tempered Clavier to show off even-tempered tuning in 1722. The octave is a creation of physics; dividing the octave into pleasing individual notes that can be put together to make music is a creation of culture, and there’s no reason to assume that ancient Mesopotamians used modern Western scales. 6. Learn the corpus of music theory that supports the structure of this piece of music. If you know the theory, you can figure out what the music is doing; if you don’t know the theory, you have a random string of notes, not music. 7. Because this was only a semi-written culture, music was heavily improvisatory. You have to know that what’s written down is more of an outline or a suggestion. The real art is in filling in the rest of the pattern. A lot of traditional non-Western music works like this (and up until fairly recently, quite a bit of Western classical music also incorporated this aspect; even today, the art of playing a cadenza is a Thing), so if you’re not an ethnomusicologist, you’ll want to bring one in, preferably one who works with contemporary West Asian folk and/or classical forms. 8. Ahhh! At last! You’ve gotten to the point where you think you can figure out what this piece is supposed to sound like. Now you have to transcribe it all into Western staff notation (which isn’t designed to handle music like this). 9. Unless you are also an expert on building and playing ancient Mesopotamian lyres, you must now go and find someone who is. Fortunately, there are one or two of these people around. Give that person your music, and book the recording studio! 10. The next time anyone asks you why studying music is important, now you know.
@sol-soleil
every single piece of franchise media released nowadays is so disrespectful to its audience i feel insane watching these things. they know they don’t have to put any effort in at all. everything is just a collection of tropes on a shitty video game looking background and there are innumerable people who go yeah that was cool. it’s literally treating you like a child with no object permanence and banking on the fact that you can point at the fancy trick or the cameo instead of recognizing the deeply stupid and insulting things playing out in front of you
"somehow palpatine returned"
Things that killed me about Part 2 of The Beatles: Get Back: Watching John, in the wake of George quitting the group, communicating through their own song lyrics (the sequence where a despondent Paul tries to come up with a schedule and some structure and John responds by speaking their own love songs back to him… my God).
Happy 73rd, Meryl Streep.
PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK 2022 Day 2: Favourite Character ➤ Elinor Dashwood ● SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995)
What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?
…and sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in…
Watch and Pass on!!! 😂😂💀💩
Now this is a hamless prank.
OMFg IM KATHY
HOW I LOVE IT
i love how everyone has a coworker they immediately call. everyone has that one friend who would save you from the headless customer.
meryl streep during her run as kate in the taming of the shrew at the delacorte theater in central park (1978)
please stop asking me how i'm doing, idk i'm ignoring it
GREEK MYTHOLOGY AESTHETIC:
Demeter
Hacks (2021-) dir. Lucia Aniello 2.04 “The Captain’s Wife”
It’s happened! The first Blaze post has haunted my dash, and it’s the fucking 95 theses.
When I say hellsite (affectionate) this wasn’t the context I was thinking
This is the greatest website in the history of the world and I am never leaving
Friendly reminder that fan-made content (fanart, fanfic, fanvids, etc) are:
extremely time consuming. Remember someone actually took time out of their life to create that, time they could’ve used to, idk, sleep, for example
entertainment you’re consuming for free. I can’t stress this enough: you’re enjoying someone else’s craft for free. You paid exactly zero money to look at/read/watch it.
S H A R E D with you, not made for you. This is the most important point: someone created that, put it online and you found it. No one forced you to consume that fanwork, you C H O S E to do it.
Whenever you feel like leaving a mean comment, anonymous hate or make a ~clever post about how ‘lol look at all of these overused tropes every fic writer crams into their fics’ remember you’re being a dick to someone who shared their work with you. You’re not being funny, you’re not being edgy, you’re not being brave for calling something out - you’re being a dick.
S H A R E D with you, not made for you.
Read that again.
