do you offenbach? no, i debussy

hi im rosa!! 18 and living in the uk, i study music at a level (amongst japanese and classics) composer || bassoonist || violinist || violist || singer the music i like is medieval, renaissance, Impressionism and 20th century!! please feel free to message me and say hi :^)

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i’m in some serious financial trouble right now so i’ve opened icon commissions!! they’re £16 ($21) each <3 <3 

i’m happy to draw your ocs, official characters, or people!! (i can’t draw furries, sorry!) 

i’ll take payments though paypal ( paypal.me/celestagarden ) 

thanks so much!! please reblog so i can reach a wider audience xxx (and follow my twitter @celestagarden !! ) 

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can’t connect w my mutuals anymore… kpop this kpop that… can’t we all just listen to gregorian chant again :(

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why does classical music have the worst album art tho

tag yourselves, I’m the 18th century music teacher in the bottom left hand corner looking displeased with the world

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^

and art like this ^ what is going on 

[mikrokosmos]

I want everyone to reblog this with the worst album art covers you’ve seen, let’s bring awareness to this bizarre trend 

[confessions-of-a-cellist]

just… what? 

why is there a pan with a perplexed bacon and eggs is that supposed to be brahms? 

and this i don’t even know what this is

[classical-crap]

busts of composers zooming through the stormy sky? sure

[criminallyloud]

Can we just all appreciate the fact that no one has brought up the fact that a potential murder is happening in the very first picture?

Just right there in the back?

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that side eye 👀👀

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someone deleted the caption on one of my posts to make it a sheet music aesthetic post this is so funny

[dmitri-tries]

27.01.16

Got a load of work to do and so little time. Reading for theory class and studying for my violin class and orchestra rehearsal.

Can’t even organize myself properly.

[lilithstudies]

07.03.17 I ended up going to the music store and, unable to stop myself, bought even more sheet music…

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gonna be studying music at the university of york from october!!!

wheeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!

[sweetbabyrayn]

Congratulations!!

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Thank you!!!!

[neurospicycomposer]

Very well done - go and knock em dead :)

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Thanks so much, I absolutely will!! :D

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gonna be studying music at the university of york from october!!!

wheeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!

[sweetbabyrayn]

Congratulations!!

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Thank you!!!!

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gonna be studying music at the university of york from october!!!

wheeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!

[nineprotons]

“Got the morbs” should be a thing.

[breelandwalker]

Victorian slang is AMAZING, and select phrases really need to make a comeback.

“Bitch the pot” - Pour the tea (HOW RELEVANT IS THIS!?)

“Bang up the elephant” - Absolutely perfect; super stylish

“Well, that’s shot the bale” - Something that has missed the mark entirely

“Church-bell” - A woman prone to gossip

“Chuckaboo” - A dear friend, a bosom chum

“Beer and skittles” - A great time (see also: Irish Gaelic “craic”)

“Butter on bacon” - Something overdone or too extravagant

“Cupid’s kettle drums” - Breasts, particularly large ones

“Gigglemug” - A cheerful smiling face

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All of these??? Make me smile??? They’re so weird and wonderful I love them??? Especially bitch the pot because that’s something I could totally hear myself saying…that and chuckaboo

[thebibliosphere]

I worked in a Victorian tea house in my youth and I’m telling you, you haven’t lived till you hear a the 98 year old lady (this was some 15 years ago) utter the words “bitch the pot” because it was what they used to say when the tea house first opened and it just sort of stuck through all the generations.

[missviolin]

Missviolin 🎻

[musictheoryaugmented]

When your reed is too hard

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a compilation of some of my favourite composer quotes:

“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.”  - Igor Stravinsky

“I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.” - Edvard Grieg 

“Never look at the trombones. It only encourages them.” - Richard Strauss

“He’d be better off shovelling snow than scribbling on manuscript paper.” - Richard Strauss on Schoenberg

“I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.” - Ludvig van Beethoven

“I have written a chorale both sober and suitable. In it I have put everything I know about boredom. I dedicate this to those who do not like me.” - Erik Satie

“ Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.” - Gioacchino Rossini

“What a good thing this isn’t music.” - Gioacchino Rossini on Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique 

“Oh how wonderful, really wonderful opera would be if there were no singers!” - Gioacchino Rossini

“In opera there is always too much singing.” - Claude Debussy

“Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!” - Johann Sebastian Bach

“Listening to the 5th Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.” - Aaron Copland 

“The audience expected something big, something colossal, but they were served instead with some agitated water in a saucer.” - Louis Schnieder on Debussy’s La Mer

“He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.” - Clara Schumann on Liszt 

“What a giftless bastard!” - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky on Brahms

“Handel is only fourth rate. He is not even interesting.” - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“Bach on the wrong notes” -  Sergei Prokofiev on Stravinsky 

And, saving the best for last…

“Lick my ass up and down” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 

Feel free to add more! (Also please don’t think that I agree with all of these, I am a huge fan of Symphonie Fantastique and La Mer!!)

[frozen-delight]

Because Wagner bashing is a favourite occupation of mine:

“One can’t judge Wagner’s opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don’t intend to hear it a second time.” - Gioacchino Rossini

“For me Wagner is impossible…he talks without ever stopping. One just can’t talk all the time.” - Robert Schumann

“Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease?” - Friedrich Nietzsche

For which reason I’ll also quote some non-composers on the subject:

“Richard Wagner was a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.” - Mark Twain

“I like Wagner’s music better than anybody’s. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time.” - Oscar Wilde

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i got three more today i am loving life

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how my holidays are panning out so far:

my mum, after i have come home buzzing from a prom: so are you going to the one tomorrow then...?

me: yep!

my mum: how can you afford it?!

me: ...if i don't spend money on ANYTHING else...

my mum: *glances at the scores i have recently bought from the score dealer outside the concert hall, and then back at me*

me: ....OKAY i won't buy anymore scores

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From my practice session this morning😂

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I AM YELLING