Andrea Studying Music

Andrea. Colombia. Music Composition major. I want to be a film composer. I love reading, writing, and listening to music. English is not my first language, so I apologize for any grammar/spelling mistakes.

[yesarts]

keep going!

[aesthetics-n-stuff]

[seeingteacupsindragons]

You know what we need more of? Beginner’s classes for adults.

It’s supposed to be really, really good for you to keep learning new things as you age. It helps stave off strokes and dementia and Alzheimer’s and improves memory. And hey, learning stuff is fun.

But I really don’t want to be infantilized when I try to learn something. And I definitely don’t learn the way a child does. And honestly, what adult wants to be in the same class as children? Very few.

This occurred to me recently because I’d like to learn how to actually ice skate properly. My parents never signed me up for classes, because it wasn’t a thing they ever cared about or thought about. Now I’m in my twenties and want to learn, and also don’t want to be surrounded by a bunch of eight-year-olds who probably honestly skate better than I do. Because that’s embarrassing, and embarrassment is not how you learn.

Would it be good to lose the social stigma of being worse at something than a child? Yes. Hell yes. But we’ve got to start somewhere, and like I said: adults don’t really learn the way kids do, and a lot of people use these kinds of activities to make friends, and I don’t want to make friends with an eight-year-old, either.

So.

Beginner’s classes for adults. Let adults suck at stuff and learn how to get better and learn new things and broaden their horizons, while still being treated as adults. Classes for writing, for pottery, for chess, for art, for instruments, for singing, for sports, for chemistry. For everything, dammit.

[kiriamaya]

I think I’ve reblogged this before but I don’t care

[thisblogisnther-deactivated2017]

People always talk about musical prodigies, I’m way more interested in late bloomers. And that’s partially because I am one - I did start learning piano around 5 or 6, but didn’t take it seriously and basically had to be forced to practice for 20 minutes a day by my mother. I only started putting any effort in around 19, which is supposed to be after the cut-off point but clearly isn’t since I got into one of the most competitive music programs in the country. But, again, 19 wasn’t anywhere near my first exposure to learning and playing music.

Now I have heard about other people like me, who were exposed to music at a young age but weren’t serious players until they were older - Wes Montgomery didn’t play the guitar until age 20 for instance. But are there any masters who didn’t have any musical training until their teens or later? Traditional wisdom says the cutoff point is very young but I’m curious if anyone knows any counterexamples.

[soyoumusik]

I’m no prodigy, but definitely a late bloomer. I started playing piano at age 10 but didn’t start taking it seriously until I was a sophomore in high school where I also took an interest to orchestra which got me to pick up the cello. I started taking cello lessons halfway through sophomore year and when senior year rolled around I decided I wanted to go to music school. The Kabalevsky Cello Concerto in G Minor was the piece I chose to audition with, it was certainly way above my level but I was determined to learn it and so did. My audition couldn’t have gone better, which was shocking considering how stressed I was. Two weeks later I got an email saying I’ve been accepted as a cello performance major! I shed actual tears of joy! At the end of the year I was even able to perform it with the orchestra and everything. It’s something I’ll never forget, it’s an amazing feeling when you can look back and see how far you’ve come and how all your hard work is worth it ! TL;DR: DONT LET ANYONE TELL YOU ITS TOO LATE! LATE BLOOMERS DESERVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF LOVE AND CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING!!

~Noah

[composing-prompts]

Compose a piece that just sounds like literal stress.

[five-flats]

did you mean: shostakovich 8th string quartet

[you-had-me-at-e-flat-major]

threnody for the victims of hiroshima

[composerinprogress]

I wrote one once. It turned out to be more funny than stressful.

[studyingandrea-blog]

Goodbye!

Ok. So, a few months ago I deleted the email account that was linked to this tumblr account. This week I’ve been trying to log in from a different browser, but apparently I changed my password (or someone changed it, idk), so I’m not being able to reset my password or do anything because now Tumblr doesn’t recognizes me as the owner of this account.

Even though I am still able to post and reblog (basically any activity I want except logging out and  back in), I don’t like neither how this account is going (I’m not really posting anything, and the aesthetic is a mess and other stuff) nor not having any control over it whatsoever, I decided to crearte a new account, where I’ll try to be more active and do what I want to do, with the ability to log in wherever and whenever I want. 

I won’t close this account because it has many things I like, and maybe people will find it (I doubt it) and like something. 

So if you want to find me I’ll be posting as @andreastudyingmusic 

[violaboss]

I’ve seen a lot of curious people wanting to dive into classical music but don’t know where to start, so I have written out a list of pieces to listen to depending on mood. I’ve only put out a few, but please add more if you want to. hope this helps y’all out. :)

stereotypical delightful classical music:

battalia a 10 in d major (biber)

brandenburg concerto no. 5

brandenburg concerto no. 3

symphony no. 45 - “farewell” (haydn)

if you need to chill:

rondo alla turca

fur elise

anitra’s dance

in the steppes of central asia (borodin) (added by viola-ology)

if you need to sleep:

moonlight sonata

swan lake

corral nocturne

sleep (eric whitacre) (added by thelonecomposer)

if you need to wake up:

morning mood

summer (from the four seasons)

buckaroo holiday (if you’ve played this in orch you might end up screaming instead of waking up joyfully)

if you are feeling very proud:

pomp and circumstance

symphony no. 9 (beethoven; this is where ode to joy came from)

1812 overture

symphony no. 5, finale (tchaikovsky) (added by viola-ology)

american (dvořák)

if you feel really excited:

hoedown (copland)

bacchanale

spring (from the four seasons) (be careful, if you listen to this too much you’ll start hating it)

la gazza ladra

death and the maiden (schubert)

if you are angry and you want to take a baseball bat and start hitting a bush:

dance of the knights (from the romeo and juliet suite by prokofiev)

winter, mvt. 1 (from the four seasons)

symphony no. 10 mvt. 2 (shostakovich)

symphony no. 5 (beethoven)

totentanz (liszt)

quartet no. 8, mvt. 2 (shostakovich) (added by viola-ology)

young person’s guide to the orchestra, fugue (britten) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

symphony no. 5 mvt. 4 (shostakovich) (added by eternal-cadenza)

marche slave (tchaikovsky) (added by eternal-cadenza)

if you want to cry for a really long time:

fantasia based on russian themes (rimsky-korsakov)

adagio for strings (barber)

violin concerto in e minor (mendelssohn)

aase’s death

andante festivo

vocalise (rachmaninoff) (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

if you want to feel like you’re on an adventure:

an american in paris (gershwin)

if you want chills:

danse macabre

russian easter overture

egmont overture (added by shayshay526)

if you want to study:

eine kleine nachtmusik

bolero (ravel)

serenade for strings (elgar)

scheherazade (rimsky-korsakov) (added by viola-ology)

pines of rome, mvt. 4 (resphigi) (added by viola-ology)

if you really want to dance:

capriccio espagnol (rimsky-korsakov)

blue danube

le cid (massenet) (added by viola-ology)

radetzky march

if you want to start bouncing in your chair:

hopak (mussorgsky)

les toreadors (from carmen suite no.1)

if you’re about to pass out and you need energy:

hungarian dance no. 1

hungarian dance no. 5

if you want to hear suspense within music:

firebird

in the hall of the mountain king

ride of the valkyries

night on bald mountain (mussorgsky) (added by viola-ology)

if you want a jazzy/classical feel:

rhapsody in blue

jazz suite no. 2 (shostakovich) (added by eternal-cadenza)

if you want to feel emotional with no explanation:

introduction and rondo capriccioso

unfinished symphony (schubert)

symphony no. 7, allegretto (beethoven) (added by viola-ology)

canon in d (pachelbel)

if you want to sit back and have a nice cup of tea:

st. paul’s suite

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

l’arlésienne suite

concierto de aranjuez (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

pieces that don’t really have a valid explanation:

symphony no. 40 (mozart)

cello suite no. 1 (bach)

polovtsian dances

enigma variations (elgar) (added by viola-ology)

perpetuum mobile

moto perpetuo (paganini)

pieces that just sound really cool:

scherzo tarantelle

dance of the goblins

caprice no. 24 (paganini)

new world symphony, allegro con fuoco (dvorak) (added by viola-ology​)

le tombeau de couperin (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

carnival of the animals (added by shadowraven45662)

if you feel like listening to concertos all day (I do not recommend doing that):

concerto for two violins (bach)

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

violin concerto in a minor (vivaldi)

violin concerto (tchaikovsky) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

violin concerto in d minor (sibelius) (added by eternal-cadenza)

cello concerto in c (haydn)

piano concerto, mvt. 1 (pierne) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

harp concerto in E-flat major, mvt. 1 (added by iwillsavemyworld)

and if you really just hate classical music in general:

4′33″ (cage)

a lot of these pieces apply in multiple categories, but I sorted them by which I think they match the most. have fun exploring classical music!

also, thank you to viola-ology, iwillsavemyworld, shayshay526, eternal-cadenza, tropicalmunchakoopas, shadowraven45662, and thelonecomposer for adding on! if you would like to add on your own suggestions, please reblog and add on or message me so I can give you credit for the suggestion!

[hexaviolet]

OH MY GOSH I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING

so 4:33 isn’t technically just silence, instead it’s all the random background noise that’s going on while the piece is being played.

and you know what this implies?

at every given moment, you are constantly listening to 4:33. it’s the only song that’s on infinite loop in your brain 100% of the time because it can literally be any sound whatsoever. or even the absence of sound. so yeah, everyone is always listening to 4:33 on repeat whether they’re in a loud concert space or a totally quiet room.

4:33 is everything. literally everything. submit to the  e t e r n a l  v o i d

[official-fredericchopin]

wow I shoulda thought of this first

[jasper-rolls]

every time i fuck up plugging in the USB to charge my iphone and scratch it against the underside of the phone i think about that scene at the start of sherlock where sherlock assumes that john watson’s sister is an alcoholic because of the scratches around the charging port of the iphone she gave to him as a gift and i think to myself “man sherlock is a fucking idiot”

[hotguysfugue]

TOP 100 PIECES OF WESTERN ART MUSIC (completely subjective)

100. Beethoven- Creatures of Prometheus Overture

99. Mozart- Violin Concerto No. 4

98. Forsyth- Viola Concerto

97. Saint-Saëns- Symphony No. 3: Organ

96. Sarasate- Zapateado

95. Shostakovich- Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 2

94. Hindemith- String Quartet No. 1

93. Haydn- String Quartet Op. 74, No. 2

92. Elgar- Cello Concerto

91. Bach- Cello Suite No. 3

90. Shostakovich- Fugue in A Major

89. Vitali- Chaconne

88. Ferneyhough- String Quartet No. 2

87. Chopin- Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor

86. Grieg- Peer Gynt Suite

85. Dvorak- String Quartet No. 12: American

84. Verdi- Overture to La Forza del Destino

83. Tchaikovsky- Symphony No. 2: Little Russian

82. Mahler- Symphony No. 6

81. Schoenberg- Pierrot Lunaire

80. Britten- Requiem

79. Chopin- Fantasie Impromptu

78. Rachmaninoff- Symphony No. 2

77. Liszt- Paganini Etude No. 3: La Campanella

76. Ligeti- Violin Concerto

75. Shostakovich- String Quartet No. 9

74. Bach- Partita in B Minor

73. Mendelssohn- Violin Concerto

72. Beethoven- Piano Sonata No. 13: Pathetique

71. Prokofiev- Violin Concerto No. 2

70. Tchaikovsky- Serenade for Strings

69. Berlioz- Symphonie Fantastique

68. Bach- Partita in D Minor (excluding Ciaconna)

67. Sibelius- Symphony No. 2

66. Khachaturian- Violin Concerto

65. Walton- Viola Concerto

64. Haas- String Quartet No. 2

63. Mendelssohn- Octet

62. Beethoven- Egmont Overture

61. Strauss- Don Juan

60. Dvorak- Symphony No. 7

59. Tchaikovsky- Symphony No. 4

58. Shostakovich- String Quartet No. 8

57. Beethoven- Op. 129

56. Wieniawski- Etude-Caprices

55. Schubert- String Quartet: Death and the Maiden

54. Stravinsky- The Rite of Spring

53. Brahms- Piano Quintet

52. Mendelssohn- String Sinfonia No. 9

51. Rimsky-Korsakov- Capriccio Espagnol

50. Beethoven- String Quartet No. 14

49. Shostakovich- Festival Overture

48. Adams- Short Ride in a Fast Machine

47. Ginastera- String Quartet No. 1

46. Sarasate- Zigeunerweisen

45. Saint-Saëns- Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso

44. Kreisler- Tambourin Chinois

43. Shostakovich- Symphony No. 5

42. Grieg- Piano Concerto

41. Bach- Ciaccona

40. Ernst- Der Erlkönig

39. Milstein- Paganiniana

38. Shostakovich- Symphony No. 11

37. Beethoven- Symphony No. 6

36. Bach- Sonata in G Minor

35. Mozart- Requiem

34. Bloch- Suite Hebraique

33. Pärt- Fratres

32. Tchaikovsky- Symphony No. 6

31. Henze- Fantasia for Strings

30. Xenakis- Jonchaies

29. Penderecki- Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima

28. Rimsky-Korsakov- Russian Easter Overture

27. Schoenberg- String Quartet No. 3

26. Chopin- Etude Op. 25 No. 11: Winter Wind

25. Dvorak- Viola Quintet in E-Flat Major

24. Shostakovich- String Quartet No. 11

23. Howells- Elegy

22. Holst- The Planets

21. Shostakovich- String Quartet No. 10

20. Walton- String Quartet

19. Ginastera- String Quartet No. 2

18. Shostakovich- Cello Concerto No. 1

17. Verdi- Requiem

16. Hindemith- String Quartet No. 4

15. Bartok- String Quartet No. 4

14. Tchaikovsky- Souvenir de Florence

13. Mozart- Die Zauberflöte

12. Shostakovich- String Quartet No. 3

11. Sibelius- Violin Concerto

10. Berg- Violin Concerto

9. Walton- Violin Concerto

8. Schoenberg- Verklärte Nacht

7. Dvorak- Piano Quintet No. 2

6. Prokofiev- Violin Concerto No. 1

5. Shostakovich- Violin Concerto No. 1

4. Ravel- String Quartet

3. Shostakovich- Symphony No. 10

2. Ravel- Tzigane

1. Schnittke- Concerto Grosso No. 1

[that-twink-composer]

Thanks for my latest playlist! #not gonna sleep

[mygrandmotherspiano]

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side or you don’t.

– Stephen King (The Stand)

(photo credit:  Mimi Giboin.)

[yes-im-a-simple-man]

Left this in the conference room at my dad’s work, so next time they have a Serious Business Meeting they will have to look at it

[yes-im-a-simple-man]

When I hear someone insult Tchaikovsky

[practise-room]

this is the funniest thing ive seen in a minute

[studyingandrea-blog]

how people think classical musicians are: Tarquin, last night I was listening to my favoured collection of the Wagner operatic preludes once more. I must say, I had forgotten how much of a masterpiece Lohengrin really is.

how classical musicians actually are: YOOOO THIS MODULATION IS DOPE AS SHITTTTTT STRAUSS MA MAAAAN

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[demoniclour]

Classical Music Aesthetic

[gentlestudying-deactivated20191]

wednesday, 3rd january we love, appreciate, and respect shostakovich in this household listening to: shostakovich’s 8th string quartet