Embrace the Dissonance

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Piano Sonata In B-Flat Major, K.281 - II. Andante Amoroso

By Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mitsuko Uchida, Pianist

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them: how are you doing?

me: 

[five-flats]

i’m doing just FUCK STALIN, thank you

[squigglebug]

I’m very confused. What does decb mean. What does this have to do with Stalin. Help.

[five-flats]

nobody tell her

[arirna]

[notglacier]

you know this fucking tune

[stuffmikeclicked]

They made it into a ringtone because it was old enough to be public domain, and Nokia (I think?) didn’t want to have to pay royalties.

… I like the full version.

[thesylverlining]

are you SHITTING ME. This is one of those posts that makes you question your worldview a little bit, tbh

[acroamatica]

okay, not quite. not quite. but the truth is better.

the original tune is not this. the original tune is, however, public domain, so they’re not wrong. it’s francisco tárrega’s gran vals - check 0:12.

but THIS, what he’s playing, is the Valse Irritation d’après Nokia, also known as the ringtone waltz, written by Marc-André Hamelin, who is a terrific canadian pianist and who wrote this as a snap reaction to having people’s fucking cellphones go off at concerts.

here’s hamelin talking about it. and playing it himself.

and the instant i first heard the valse irritation, you know what i had to do, immediately, and what at least three other people i know also did?

of course we made it our ringtone, didn’t we. because humans.

[thesylverlining]

holy shit this keeps getting better

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discuss

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in other news i showed up to rehearsal with the wrong instrument how’s your day going

[feetfantasy2000]

New year, I’m learning a beautiful new piece (Prelude op. 35 n. 6 by F. Mendelsshon). Also I’m doing a practice journal! I hope I won’t give up this one on the 3rd week of work…

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a particularly unusual and rare example of an 18th century music book. 

Entirely hand written by Ralph Thomson started playing the Violin in 1776 and he bought this book in 1777

A beautiful and rare example from around the time of the American War of Independence 

[thefaultinourslides]

Mood

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What, in the ever loving god, iS THIS

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<b> FORTE </b>

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FORTEMISSIO

[all-things-wonderfull]

Rick Sanchez playing guitar 🔥 😍

[unown]

worlds smallest violin (trap remix)

[opus3no1]

Just think… we see the same moon Shostakovich saw…

[everydaylouie]

as a fun challenge i made a tune using only ukulele! everything on this is chopped-up, pitch-shifted ukulele i recorded :)

[justanaverageteenagecellist]

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexplicable…is music” ~Aldous Huxley

[charlesoberonn]

Listening to a song outside of the 5 songs you usually listen to