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eleanor • 17 • female • oratorio/musical theatre • previous roles: sally smith - mrs lovett • dream roles: eliza doolittle - narrator (joseph) - maria von trapp

[ohfantine]

She is a force to be reckoned with.

[mendelssohn-kin]

Me: *places the Thomas the tank engine theme over the breaking bad opening*

Me: ah yes

Me: polyphony

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[if-only-angels]

I hate the fact that HBO appears to be showing the Gentleman Jack episodes earlier than BBC

when it's a fucking British-made BBC show. I am just sick of seeing these spoilers. They should have come out at the same time in both countries.

[elanchana]

one of my favorite g&s stories is when hms pinafore came out and everyone really liked the “what never” “no never” “what never” “well hardly ever” line so it became a thing people kept saying and it got so widespread that it started popping up in newspapers so one day the head editor from some newspaper got so fed up that he was like “I NEVER WANNA SEE THIS STUPID WHAT NEVER THING AGAIN!!!!!”

and of course someone in the office HAD to get up and say

“what, never?”

and that is how gilbert and sullivan created a meme in 1876

[elanchana]

Since this post is taking off, I might as well share some more of my favorite G&S stories.

Gilbert once gave his priincipal tenor the direction to cross to a bench and pensively sit down. The tenor, being a heavy man, accidentally broke the bench, to which Gilbert remarked, “I said pensively. Not expensively.”

While rehearsing, one soloist was having a hard time memorizing the music and sang a part confidently, but wrong. Sullivan stopped the rehearsal and said, “That is a lovely tune. Now would you try mine?”

And finally, a historical instance of one of the most well-known music jokes. An older woman, who did not yet know the difference between a composer and a librettist, approached Gilbert and told him that his shows had inspired her to look up older composers such as Beethoven and Bach. She then asked him if “Dear Batch” was still composing. Gilbert’s response? “My dear lady, as Bach has been dead over a hundred years, I assume he is decomposing.”

[if-only-angels]

I love all of this and if I could find a way to put it into my dissertation I would.

[singingsuperhero]

Okay, I know everyone says that the American accent is more like the old English accent, but I can’t help but wonder about the validity of this claim, and if anyone has any more knowledge about linguistics, then I really welcome answers.

When people talk about the English accent, they tend to be talking about RP, which was borne out of posh people wanting to be ‘above’ commoners, which is all perfectly valid. But let’s talk about common accents.

If the American accent was truly the accent of the common people, why is there a massive variation in regional accents within the UK, and why do they sound nothing like an American accent? Is the American accent as we know it not a preserved form of an accent but a blend of accents from around the country? We might attribute the rhotacised 'r’ to the Bristolian accent, and 'bath’ instead of 'barth’ to the general North, maybe, but where did the tendency for twanginess originate? Was the drawling speech pattern especially found in the South of America descended from the way people from Yorkshire tend to slow down everything? Why do Americans stress different syllables to us? If anyone has any clue, please enlighten me because I have been driving myself crazy with this question for the last few days.

[if-only-angels]

What I know is that all the authorities on singing (for instance) Thomas Morley with 'original pronunciation' seem to advise an accent that is very close to standard American. With a few extra quirks, of course, but the vowels, stresses, soft T and rhotic R are all there.

[grumsal]

they’re *finally* making sexy oliver twist

[ajyson]

“please, daddy, i want some more”

[jonbutter]

not only do i want this post deleted, but i want the entire channel of NBC deleted right this minute

[singingsuperhero]

The fuck???

[if-only-angels]

Sometimes I wish I were Jared, 19

[frontpagewoman]

[if-only-angels]

God I wish I had her natural vibrato...

[mademoiselleboullan]

[if-only-angels]

Holy fucfcukffkknsjks -

Things are heating up in the history fandom

For God’s sake, Mary of Scots, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth have all been dead for centuries. Let’s try to talk about historical figures with some kind of objectivity, and be respectful in debate, OK? There is NO reason to turn a Mary of Scots vs Elizabeth debate into a sectarian war, I just -

And this is a TV programme! How does a gifset from a TV programme kick off the sectarian hatred?? It’s not a reliable historical source, it shouldn’t be influencing your position in debate, there’s not even a single reference to Mary of Scots.

In summary, calm your arses down.

[lesmiserablesproject]

“Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the sparrow; the child is called the gamin.”

[lingling40hrs]

Types of Comments on Classical Music YT

1. a n g e l

“1 - Allegro Moderato 0:04

2 - Canzonetta: Andante 19:50

3 - Finale: Allegro Vivacissimo 26:53”

need i say more

2. Twosetter

- “Who’s here from twoset”

- “He practices 40 hours a day”

- “Lmao the violist in the background at 4:20 kinda looks like Brett”

- “She can play 15 notes a second”

- Literally knows nothing of the piece/composer, but knows very much about memes

- Likely to be found on Ray Chen, Hilary Hahn, or Janine Jansen vids (or the one vid of Sumina Studer playing Pag Caprice 5)

3. Theory Nerd

- “The shift to the relative minor followed by the picardy third at 6:23 is genius and very well done”

- no comment on the performance or the piece or anything, just theory terms

- crams as many big words into one sentence as possible

- only has like 3 likes and probably no friends

4. Wholesome

- Really respectful

- Types out like three paragraphs

- Includes the history of the entire piece and composer

- One of the top comments

- Thanks the person who uploaded it and is really excited to be able to easily access the recording

- No profile pic and has their real name as their username

- Most common

5. Salty violinists

- Most likely found on child prodigy videos

- Complains about not practicing instead of just practicing

- Self esteem has hit rock bottom

- Has made it part of their daily routine to cry in the corner over how they’ll never achieve anything in life because it seems that they’re always behind everyone and no matter how hard they try they’ll never be good enough. not that i would know anything about that, moving on

6. Memer

- “OMG bach i’m ur biggest fan pls come to toronto”

- “Only 1700’s kids will remember this”

- Has an actual sense of humor outside of ‘interesting’ and ‘sacriligious’

- Also one of the top comments

7. omg such a nerd uwu

- “Is it weird that I’m 14 and I like this?? 😂😂 lmao I’m sorry I’m such a nerd”

- Has ended up on r/im14andthisisdeep and r/notliketheothergirls

- only found on the most mainstream pieces

8. Normie

- “Lmao I’m just here cause I heard it on a commercial”

- “Hey its that one cello song”

- Calls it a song

- Most commonly found on Tchaik’s Romeo & Juliet Overture saying they found it through spongebob

- Travels in groups

9. Weeb

- Similar to normie (travels in groups)

- Probably here from Your Lie in April

- Annoys everyone else in the comments

- Only found on the pieces played in YLIA

- The rest of the comments that aren’t them are comments complaining about them

10. Flexer

- Responds to everyone’s compliments to the performer with “haha yeah it was great i was there”

- “I met Hilary Hahn 60 years ago yeah she was pretty cool”

[bestofmidi]

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[if-only-angels]

So, brass gang...

how easy is valve oil to get out of clothes? Because I just had a small accident involving a bottle of Yamaha oil, an unruly valve cap, and my very expensive wool-mix uniform skirt...

[classicslesbianopinions]

hey in your lesbian opinion what voice part is antigone

oh my goodness this is the best possible ask we could be sent thank you

personally i’d say alto… can hold her own when she’s under pressure to conform to a more popular ideology, much like altos must hold their own against sopranos and/or tenors singing the melody… i would imagine really good at like. projecting her voice too… like in a musical version of antigone (psst someone write a musical version of antigone and also cast me in it) she’d have like. all the power ballads or whatever

[enthusiasticmusicalquotes]

Hi! I love your blog, it's really cool and helps me to discover so many songs. I was wondering if you had any suggestions of other tumblr blogs to follow (blogs about musical theater...) Thank you for everything you do !

if i’m being honest i don’t really look on tumblr too much anymore outside of checking this blog, and most of what i post on my main nowadays is non-musical related. thanks for the compliment though, it means a lot ^-^

if you’re a musical theatre blog that anon should follow, like/comment/reblog this post so they can find you

[if-only-angels]

I post musical theatre and classical music stuff in about equal parts.

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[anxiousviolist]

no one:

literally no one:

not a single person:

no, and i cannot stress this enough, one:

people with perfect pitch: yeah i have perfect pitch💁‍♀️🤣 someone test me😝😝 it’s an F😘😘