welcome to the pit

[classical-crap]

music major culture is standing outside your friend’s practice room holding a menacing face for five minutes and waiting for them to notice

[officialbariqueen-deactivated20]

Having a crush on someone for their instrument and personality:

[trynsave]

[its-not-a-xylophone]

tag yourself as: tuned percussion instruments

xylophone: vibrant, extroverted, known by everyone, likes different cultures

glockenspiel: bright, innocent, screams when happy, often overlooked

vibraphone: jazz fan, introspective but could talk for hours if left to do so, drinks coffee

marimba: rational, quiet, reliable, likes classical music

tubular bells: self-confident, a little overly dramatic, fun to spend time with

[galacticamidala]

my orchestra conductor: count your rests!

me, an intellectual: just feel the music™

[8th-note-boulevard]

Guilty….

[trumpetwithasmallego]

“I don’t understand jazz. I see chords and i cry” - our vibes player while looking at the score for moanin’ by charles mingus with our band director

[thescientificviolist]

composers as random gifs/images i have on my phone for no reason

tchaikovsky:

sibelius:

schoenberg:

bernstein:

shostakovich:

stravinsky:

beethoven:

bach:

mozart:

schumann:

[circegaard]

Classical composers as John Mulaney quotes

[musictheoryaugmented]

Sounds like you need a break. Maybe you should go play your instrument?

[8th-note-boulevard]

[mamoru]

[bitsow]

4800 players, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony Speedrun

[kaijuno]

its not even music anymore it’s just a shockwave that kills you instantly

[starknesskenobi]

First of all every single composition by Tchaikovsky is a banger 

[thatsareallybigguitar]

[marimba-muse]

Happier by Marshmellow!

[violalife]

Ladies, if he

-leaves you on read

-never checks your snapchat story

-wears glasses

-wrote a string quartet as his suicide note

-is under constant threat of being sent to a russian gulag

-uses the DSCH motif

That’s not your man, that’s Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich.

[musicmajormemes]