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It's A Viola Thing

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Eleanor • Arts Management post-grad student at RWCMD 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 • graduate of the University of Manchester 🐝 • ESFJ •
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classical-crap
me, inside my house with the window open: *plays an out-of-tune scale on the violin*
non-musician walking by: where is that beautiful classical music coming from??
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musictheoryaugmented

Scanning my prof’s bookshelves for the non-circulating Taruskin volume I need during the pandemic

Facebook crowdsourcing landed me with a PDF of said volume in less than ten minutes. ❤️

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ohchopin

After the school year ended, Chopin was impatient to return to Szafarnia for another summer holiday in the company of Domuś Dziewanowski, and the pair arrived at the manor house in mid-July. Chopin now added the unlikely pastimes of hunting and shooting to his pastoral activities, joining a hunting party and coming back with a rabbit and a brace of partridges tied to his waist — his “bag” for the day. Even more surprising, since in contradicts everything we thought we knew about Chopin’s delicate constitution, we learn that he tried his hand at carpentry. He first designed some chess pieces and then went on to build some wooden benches that were placed in the park at Szafarnia, where they remained for many years. (In 1842, after passing through the area, Ludwika Chopin told her brother, “The benches you built in Szafarnia do not exist anymore. One can only find imitations in pleasant memory of you.”) — Dr. Alan Walker

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harvardhoodie

On Beethoven:

"There's nothing really so important about what I myself feel," he seems to say, "because I realize that I share my feelings with the whole world. My music describes the emotions of all people, not just my own."

J., R. (1957) A History for young people.

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beethoven

This is in contrast to the predominantly regal and divine sympathies of baroque music, which is glorious and basically without sin. Also the operas are all about kings and gods. The classical period saw subject matter move through the aristocracy while art was propped up by aristocrats, and then Beethoven brought it to common people as a hinge between the Classical period and the more personal and democratic Romantic period that followed

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yes-im-a-simple-man

Composers in quarantine

Tchaikovsky: (sarcastically) OOooOoh NooOooOo, social distancing? Whatever shall I do?? However shall I live without being bOtHeReD bY oThEr PeOpLe???

Shostakovich: I survived the siege of Leningrad, this is nothing.

Mahler:

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theorchestraroom
Conductor: *ranting about how people need to be writing in their music*
Percussionist: *quietly tuning the timpani*
Conductor: God? Is that you?
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