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Welcome to My Tumblr....Getting Cleaned out now to be music related! ΣΑΙ-ΘΚ Music Education-Trombonist

[classical-carp]

orchestra/band instruments: top or bottom

violin: needy power bottom

viola: verse

cello: top

bass: bottom passing top

harp: BOTTOM

piano: they’re alone so

piccolo: literally anything anyone wants

flute: your royal pillow prince/princess

oboe: just happy to be there

english horn: say they’re a bottom but definitely a top

bass clarinet: verse

clarinet: bottom

bassoon: top

saxophone: verse, up for anything

contrabasson: top

horn: verse

tuba: power bottom

trombone: top passing bottom

trumpet: you’d think they’re tops but they’re all needy bottoms

percussion: tops, they’re all tops, every single one of them

[maddiered2122]

😭😭😭

[classical-crap]

I’ve been spending the past few days making really awful versions of classical piano pieces (complete with generic drumbeats, cheesy electric guitar solos, choral singing, and a sad trombone). would you guys like to hear them at some point?

[wumbleberry-fc]

hell yeah!

[the-sassy-composer]

I’m so intrigued by “a sad trombone”

[maddiered2122]

As a sad trombonist i am even more intrigued

[composing-prompts]

Arrange an instrumental piece based on a pop song.

[mikrokosmos]

Beethoven - Piano Concerto no.1 in C Major (1795)

Among his early major works, the first piano concerto is an outright example of following the expectations of the “composer-pianist” model in late Classical Vienna. Here the pianist can show off his abilities at performing and music writing, two birds with one stone. Because Beethoven was young and trying to put his name out there, he was writing a lot of strong music for the piano [sonatas and a few chamber works] so he could present himself as both composer and pianist, and the first concerto was his breakthrough into the concert hall instead of smaller aristocratic music chambers [though this was written after the “second” piano concerto]. Here, Beethoven uses humor and irony that Haydn inspired him with to put forth some ideas that would later be associated with his personality and musical goals. The first movement opens with the typical orchestral prelude, a fun melody given a “grand” texture, until the piano comes in with the delicate restatement of main themes, and then decoration over the orchestra. Following Mozart’s model, this movement integrates piano and orchestra in a balanced way, so the piano never comes off as superior or superfluous. Through the gorgeous and light movement, we then get the cadenza, which includes the Haydn-like irony I mentioned earlier. Here, the cadenza is very dense and full of unstable chords, hammering away, that feels out of place with the more charming carefree movement it’s a part of. The Beethoven-personality here is the emphasis of strong contrasts; instead of light, melodic, graceful, grand, we get very heavy and dark, dense, percussive and stormy. This also makes me think of funny anecdotes about Beethoven’s playing, where he wasn’t very graceful in performance but was loved for his intensity, and he often broke piano strings with how strongly he smacked the keys. I can imagine that kind of intensity should come out strong here to emphasize the humor and also Beethoven’s youthful personality. The second movement is of course softer and we have a heavenly theme played first on the piano with light orchestral accompaniment. The third movement is a rowdy and fun finale, full of accidentals that gives it a bit of a ‘rustic’ feeling, and a lot of fun pianistic flair. A ‘trio’ like section includes a very folksy dance feel that is then contrasted with a lighter subject. These ideas play with each other for a bit until, after a brief glittery reflection in the piano, the orchestra bursts out the closing bars.

Movements:

1. Allegro con brio

2. Largo

3. Rondo. Allegro scherzando

[mikrokosmos]

Beethoven Masterpost

Suggested to me via anon messaging, I think this is a good idea to share some Beethoven with people who don’t know where to start, or anyone who already likes my blog posts and wants to read my little write ups. So, here are all of the Beethoven posts I have made on my blog so far. Each time I write a new post, I’ll make sure to add it to the list.

Orchestral Music

Symphonies

No. 3 in Eb Major, “Eroica” 

No. 6 in F Major, “Pastoral”

No. 7 in A Major

No. 8 in F Major

No. 9 in d minor

Concertos

Choral Fantasy

Piano Concerto no. 1 in C Major

Piano Concerto no. 3 in c minor

Piano Concerto no. 4 in G Major

Chamber Music

Cello Sonatas

No. 3 in A Major

Piano Trios

No. 4 in Bb Major, “Gassenhauer”

Transcription of Symphony no.2 in D Major

String Quartets

No. 1 in F Major

No. 7 in F Major, “Razumovsky 1″

No. 11 in f minor, “Serioso”

Violin Sonatas

No. 5 in F Major, “Spring”

No. 6 in A Major

Solo Piano Music

Piano Sonatas

No. 1 in f minor

No. 3 in C Major 

No. 6 in F Major

No. 7 in D Major

No. 8 in c minor, “Pathetique”

No. 12 in Ab Major, “Funeral March”

No. 13 in Eb Major, “Quasi una Fantasia”

No. 14 in c# minor, “Quasi una Fantasia”, “Moonlight”

No. 17 in d minor, “The Tempest”

No. 19 in g minor

No. 21 in C Major, “Waldstein”

No. 23 in f minor, “Appassionata” 

No. 27 in e minor

No. 29 in Bb Major, “Hammerklavier”

No. 30 in E Major 

Variations

Diabelli Variations

[classical-crap]

bought some records. good day today

[composing-prompts]

Compose a piece about the meaning of your name (you may have to google the meaning of your name if you don’t know it, or maybe do slightly more extensive research if you have an uncommon name).

Example: my name is the Norse word for “burn,” so I would write a piece about fire.

[allnetbenjammin]

[a-ramblinrose]

“I once asked my friends if they’d ever held things that gave them a spooky sense of history. Ancient pots with three-thousand-year-old thumbprints in the clay, said one. Antique keys, another. Clay pipes. Dancing shoes from WWII. Roman coins I found in a field. Old bus tickets in second-hand books. Everyone agreed that what these small things did was strangely intimate; they gave them the sense, as they picked them up and turned them in their fingers, of another person, an unknown person a long time ago, who had held that object in their hands. You don’t know anything about them, but you feel the other person’s there, one friend told me. It’s like all the years between you and them disappear. Like you become them, somehow.”

— Helen Macdonald, H is For Hawk

[maddiered2122]

Like finding old copies of music with hand written notes. You feel like you are seeing the inside of that musicians brain

[composerinprogress]

I came up with this little tune in the past week and decided to orchestrate it! Not exactly sure what constitutes a folk tune, but I know this is the closest my music has come to it.

Enjoy!

[ball-so-hard-conservatory]

A Handy Chart for learning clefs, if you’re into that sort of thing, you weirdo.

[musictheoryaugmented]

OMG, the “girl bassoonists” one gives me life.

[shencomix]

[goatfrog]

wake me up (before you go go) can’t wake up (before you go go) save me (don’t leave me hanging on like a yo yo)

[glumshoe]

[kropotkhristian-deactivated2019]

Mark Zuckerberg lost $119 Billion dollars on the stock market today (7/26/18). This is the largest loss of wealth in a single day in modern stock history.

This will literally not change his lifestyle or effect his livelihood at all. He is still a multi-billionaire.

If I worked every single day, for the rest of my life, at $15/hr - which is more than twice the national minimum wage - I would never make even 1/1000th the amount of just the money that Zuckerberg lost today.

If I worked every single day, for the entirety of the time that anatomically modern humans have existed (200,000 years) - at $15/hr - I would still not make one tenth of the amount of just the money he lost today.

And he is still a billionaire and will lose literally zero luxury or well-being from what happened today.

You want to know how absolutely grotesque modern wealth inequality is?

There you go.

[naturaekos]

[yes-im-a-simple-man]

me @ Shostakovich

[dnd-homebrew5e]