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To all the Tumblr users who tend to use tags very liberally:
Let’s play a game. Type the following words into your tags box, then post the first automatic tag that comes up. you, also, what, when, why, how, look, because, never
composer aesthetics (1/?): wolfgang amadeus mozart
born january 27, 1756, in salzburg, wolfgang amadeus mozart wrote his first musical composition at age five and his first symphony at age eight. in his short thirty-five years, mozart worked as a freelance and court musician, and wrote over six hundred musical works––including twenty-two operas, twenty-seven concertos, and forty-one symphonies. einstein would later say that the music of mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels as if it has “always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.”
How to survive an opera
Soprano: unless it’s an opera buffa, you are probably screwed. a few survival methods are:
- do NOT date the tenor
- marry a rich bass
- run away with the mezzo
- try not to get tuberculosis
Tenor: almost as screwed as the soprano
- be a jerk, they somehow tend to survive
- get a soprano to die for you (not entirely foolproof but sometimes works)
- DO NOT piss off the baritone
- also do not duel the baritone
- just be gay for the baritone it’s the best idea (careful tho: you might be related)
- find a wise bass to teach you the way of the Jedi
Mezzo/Contralto: pretty good survival rate, but a few things to watch out for.
- DO NOT piss off the tenor
- DO NOT let your whiny brother rape the tenor’s wife
- just. stay away from tenors
- put on breeches. now you are immortal
Baritone: better survival rates than a tenor or a soprano but oh so many potential deaths…
- DO NOT duel the tenor. Statistically you have a better chance at winning but what if his boyfriend is the Dark Lord Satan?
- do not be the title character in anything that isn’t opera buffa, you WILL be dead
- if you are good-aligned, you dead
- if a bass tells you the other bass is evil and wants you dead. maybe LISTEN
- if there is another baritone, and you KNOW he’s a treacherous little shit, jail him immediately instead of letting him roam free around your drink
- do not leave sharp objects where sopranos can see them
- do NOT provoke the bass. you may win at first, but the motherfucker will be back, now with supernatural powers
Bass: generally pretty good survival rates, but…
- learn to swim
- DO NOT provoke the baritone. your low constitution (because you put all points into cunning) vs his maxed strength will not have good results
- be the Devil, you can’t die and you already live in Hell
- maybe do not murder children for the throne. just a suggestion
- do not try to fight whoever seduced your daughter. it’s not worth it
- do not think you can get away with being a terrible husband if your father-in-law is a god
countertenor
- ur probably a roman dictator so you’ll get what’s coming
So this has been stuck in my head ever since I heard it three days ago.
this is the polar opposite of Everybody Knows Shits Fucked
i didn’t know this til i looked up the video on youtube, but this dude is a super cool and accomplished musician! his name is Rushad Eggleston–wikipedia describes him as “an innovative musician who has changed the way the cello is played,“ but according to his personal website he’s a “cello goblin & otherworldly jester currently touring earth”
I love modern music
on second thought,
i had to rush to my computer to make this
listen. i am the daughter of a band teacher, i am a singer, and i am a former actress. when it came time for me to choose what to include in this musical meme… i entirely forgot that orchestra fucking existed.
ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE
i humbly present this alignment chart to you in the spirit of innovation and melodious gays.
love, your choir pan op
choir pan/choir bi here
Classical Music fans will never truly hear the artists they love, it’s always just a cover version.
THINGS I THINK ABOUT EVERY DAY. THIS MAKES ME SO ANGRY
Speak for yourself
happy valentine’s day! here are a bunch of shitty valentines I made on Snapchat for your (and my) amusement
The composer Dmitri Shostakovich working as a firefighter during the siege of leningrad, most probably 35 or 36 of age
I AM DELIVERT!! I DONT LIKE SAINT SAENS NO MO’!!
I LIKE BRAHMS! BRAHMS BRAHMS BRAHMS
I WILL LOVE A BRAHMS
A BRAHMS WILL LOVE YOU!!!
Hey guys! Haven’t made a quotes masterpost in a while, so I created one for the composes! And I know it’s a different header format, but I wanted to try it out! As always, I hope you enjoy these quotes and find them inspirational, like I have.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”
Johannes Brahms
“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.”
Virgil Thomson
“Let your mind alone, and see what happens.”
“I don’t go around regretting things that don’t happen.”
“Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”
Franz Schubert
“Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.”
“The moment is supreme.”
“The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.”
“You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.”
Gustav Mahler
“It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.”
“Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.”
“A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.”
“It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.”
“Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one’s contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one’s way.”
“The point is not to take the world’s opinion as a guiding star but to go one’s way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.”
“I don’t let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.”
Claude Debussy
“A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.”
“Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.”
John Cage
“We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.”
“We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.”
“The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.”
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”
“There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.”
“We need not destroy the past. It is gone.”
“When we separate music from life we get art.”
Leonard Bernstein
“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”
Franz Liszt
“Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.”
“Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.”
George Gershwin
“Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.”
“True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.”
“I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.”
“It is always possible to create something original.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.”
“What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”
“This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.”
“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the divine.”
Wagner, to Liszt: "Before taking any steps with regard to my amnesty, I must, once more, take counsel with you, and as this is impossible by word of mouth, as I should have wished, it must be done by letter as BRIEFLY AS POSSIBLE."
Also Wagner, immediately afterwards:
honestly trumpet is the most difficult instrument and requires the most amount of skill out of all the instruments. no other instrument knows the blood sweat and tears that goes into trumpet playing. therefore trumpet players are the superior haha just kidding but doesn’t that sound like something a trumpet player would say
GUYS I WANT WEIRD CLASSICAL MUSIC HISTORY FACTS PLEASE REBLOG WITH CLASSICAL MUSIC HISTORY FACTS THIS STUFF IS INTERESTING
I can’t stop. Here is composer Erik Satie’s daily schedule (emphasis mine):
Here is a time-table of my daily acts. I rise at 7.18; am inspired from 10.23 to 11.47. I lunch at 12.11 and leave the table at 12.14. A healthy ride on horse-back round my domain follows from 1.19 pm to 2.53 pm. Another bout of inspiration from 3.12 to 4.7 pm. From 5 to 6.47 pm various occupations (fencing, reflection, immobility, visits, contemplation, dexterity, natation, etc.)
Dinner is served at 7.16 and finished at 7.20 pm. From 8.9 to 9.59 pm symphonic readings (out loud). I go to bed regularly at 10.37 pm. Once a week (on Tuesdays) I awake with a start at 3.14 am.
My only nourishment consists of food that is white: eggs, sugar, shredded bones, the fat of dead animals, veal, salt, coco-nuts, chicken cooked in white water, mouldy fruit, rice, turnips, sausages in camphor, pastry, cheese (white varieties), cotton salad, and certain kinds of fish (without their skin). I boil my wine and drink it cold mixed with the juice of the Fuschia. I have a good appetite but never talk when eating for fear of strangling myself.
I breathe carefully (a little at a time) and dance very rarely. When walking I hold my ribs and look steadily behind me.
My expression is very serious; when I laugh it is unintentional, and I always apologise very politely.
I sleep with only one eye closed, very profoundly. My bed is round with a hole in it for my head to go through. Every hour a servant takes my temperature and gives me another.
They need to practice
Who?
They know who they are
