A Little Owl Sleeps Here

Hello, I'm Sophie, 22, Welsh and an oboist. This blog is for various things I love, mostly at the moment for music, including lots of weird contemporary classical stuff. It's the good sort of weird, promise.

[darklarru]

when you listen to classical music:

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Debussy’s music sounds like clouds

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composers and their descriptions

Bach: polyphony is the new black

Haydn: surprise motherfucker

Mozart: some people just never grow up :/

Beethoven: some people just never grOW OUT OF THEIR EMO PHASE

Tchaikovsky: sad, gay, and ready to slay

Brahms: the song Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne was written specifically for him

Liszt: ill play you a piece if you strip on the piano

Rachmaninoff: this footlong handspan is compensating for something else

Wagner: wow i cant believe he stole lord of the rings

Strauss: you stop dancing, you die

Berlioz: *vapes*

Sibelius: nature is here and shes looking more beautiful than ever

Mahler: nature is here and shes PISSED

Shostakovich: fuck stalin, fuck the police, fuck tonality

Respighi: nature is here and shes a man

Messiaen: is there a subtype of furries specifically for birds?

Schoenberg: why limit yourself to just one key?

Ives: why limit yourself to just 12 notes?

Britten: gay? never heard of it

Grainger: nobody will comment on your bdsm roleplay if you write catchy tunes

Gershwin: ooooooooowwWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAA

Reich: clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap

Glass: play these 8 measures 37 times then repeat

Cage: *drags piano bench across the stage then walks offstage*

Williams: HOOOOOOORRRRRRRNNNNNNSSSSSSS

feel free to add more

[just-shower-thoughts]

The first coke and mentos reaction could have happened in someone’s mouth.

[c-sharp-harmonic-minor]

A note to everyone who doesn't play piano:

people who play the piano are called pianists…. please pronounce the “a” in pianist and stop calling me a penis-t

[that-twink-composer]

Preach

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London has turned into a river :(

[just-shower-thoughts]

If the Earth was flat, cats would have pushed everything off of it by now.

[theowlet-blog]

i like: boys

i don't like: boys

[stardust-seedling]

The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices.“

Don Miguel Angel Ruiz (via stardust-seedling)

[did-you-mean-viola]

yellow is the color of RIOTS

[ultrafacts]

[bestnatesmithever]

What if it bites me and it dies?

[finalellipsis-deactivated201807]

that means you’re poisonous. jesus christ, nate, learn to read.

[babblingfishes]

What if it bites itself and I die?

[william-petrisous-and-other-blo]

It’s voodoo.

[the-ordinary-nerd]

What if it bites me and someone else dies?

[tpt-moved]

That’s correlation, not causation.

[pizzadut]

what if we bite each other and neither of us die

[demonsinsuits]

that’s kinky

[pizzadut]

oh my god

[the-last-snow-elf]

this is still my favorite text post collaboration ever

[takineko]

I haven’t seen this post in like 3 years

[rydenarmani]

my hobbies

switching between the same three apps for hours

not speaking to anyone for days at a time

listening to the same songs i have been listening to for 20 years

imagining myself in situations that will literally never exist

[mikrokosmos]

why does classical music have the worst album art tho

tag yourselves, I’m the 18th century music teacher in the bottom left hand corner looking displeased with the world

[the-grand-sonata-deactivated201]

^

and art like this ^ what is going on 

[mikrokosmos]

I want everyone to reblog this with the worst album art covers you’ve seen, let’s bring awareness to this bizarre trend 

[confessions-of-a-cellist]

just… what? 

why is there a pan with a perplexed bacon and eggs is that supposed to be brahms? 

and this i don’t even know what this is

[classical-crap]

busts of composers zooming through the stormy sky? sure

[mikrokosmos]

Omg my cousin got me Classical Thunder for Christmas one year I was shocked

[frenchhornsandunicorns]

excellent genre identification, itunes

[classical-crap]

*starts a mosh pit at a horn recital*

[official-saxophones]

Tag yourself I’m saxophone

[justanotherpiccplayer]

Well I’m recorder, which is closest to piccolo so accurate

[iamanathemadevice-deactivated20]

HIstorian Suzzannah Lipscombe responds to Mark Lawson’s poorly researched clickbait Guardian article, “Not in this day and age: when will TV stop horrendously airbrushing history?”

From Downton Abbey to Call the Midwife and now Jamestown, period dramas always fall into the classic trap – characters with laughably liberal values for their day. Stop the madness, TV-makers!

Idiot man

[skovlyste]

Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It’s very easy to enjoy yourself.

Tove Jansson (via skovlyste)