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#lmao i love this sm

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I like the implication that pianists aren’t musicians

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um u “like classical music” but don’t even listen to John Merbecke (c. 1510 – c. 1585), producer of the first musical setting for the English liturgy, who later published The Booke of Common Praier Noted 1549? ok 😂😂👌

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David Shrigley

#me #literally me

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two kinds of people

also, people who mostly post classical music stuff, feel free to add yourselves to this post. a lot of the people that I follow are inactive now or I’ve already mentioned them in the past.

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passersby when I’m improvising with the windows open

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me after a bad practice session, tossing my instrument into its case: You’re just a piece of twisted wood and metal. Shut the fuck up. See if I care.

me the next day, during a really nice practice session: maybe..... u were my soulmate all along..... u and me..... we’re one and the same..... I really do be lovin u

#music #classical music #musician #go practice #music lovers #art #artists on tumblr

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Me, continuing to practice for Virtual Choir 6 amidst continual Eric Whitacre discourse on Facebook:

#i'm in the virtual choir too! #alto gang

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some of my favourite piano pieces + pressed flowers.

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Specific Hozier Music Edits Masterlist

(I’ll update this everytime I post a new one)

• Shrike but you’re sitting by your open window during a thunderstorm

• In The Woods Somewhere but you’re actually somewhere in the woods during a summer night, sitting by a campfire

• No Plan but you’re sitting on an empty beach looking out on the sea

• Almost (Sweet Music) but you’re sitting on a porch during a thunderstorm

• Angel Of Small Death & The Codeine Scene but you’re driving through a snow blizzard at night

• Wasteland, Baby! but you’re driving at night through rain

• As It Was but you’re sitting on your windowsill, watching the thunderstorm that’s going on outside

• Sedated but you’re underwater

• Wasteland, Baby! but you’re right at the edge of a dark forest, sitting by a bonfire

• Run but you’re sitting by a lake. The sun just went down and you lit a bonfire to keep yourself warm

• From Eden but you’re sitting in a field by a small river. It’s a nice sunny day & the birds are chirping

• Arsonist’s Lullabye but you’re all cozied up in front of an open fireplace

• NFWMB (Acoustic) but you’re in the middle of a forest at night, sitting in the entrance of your tent in front of a bonfire

• In A Week but it’s coming from an unknown source in the distance; you’re laying in the middle of a field, insects are buzzing around you

• It Will Come Back but you’re sitting at the edge of a cliff looking out onto the ocean and the thunderstorm that’s raging in the distance

• Foreigner’s God but you’re walking through howling wind

• Work Song but you’re on an empty beach, looking out onto the ocean while the daylight fades

• Dinner & Diatribes but it’s playing at a fancy cocktail/dinner party

• Would That I but you’re sitting outside on a windy day enjoying the way the trees move and the leaves rustle all around you

• Movement but you’re lying on your couch next to an open window, enjoying the thunderstorm that’s going on outside

• Like Real People Do but you’re in the forest, actually digging up something (or someone?)

• Work Song but sung by a woman/female!Hozier

• Run but sung by a woman/female!Hozier

• Take me to Church but sung by a woman/female!Hozier

• NFWMB but it’s playing from an old truck radio. You’re at the edge of a forest at night, cuddled up to your lover in the makeshift bed in the back of the truck, listening to the sounds of their breathing and heartbeat

• Better Love but you’re in the treetops of the jungle, listening to the sounds of the animals in the forest below

• Talk but you’re on a walk in a forest

• Cherry Wine but you’re in your hammock on your veranda with a glass of wine, listening to the rain and the insects in your garden

• Would That I but you’re cozied up in front of your fireplace after a long day

• From Eden but you’re riding your bicycle down a dirt path

• Someone New but it’s quietly playing through your headphones while you’re walking down a busy street; watching all the strangers around you going about their day

• Sunlight but you’re out camping on a hot summer night

• The Humours of Whiskey but someone is singing it while you’re on a walk, exploring a forest

• Be but it’s a hot summer day and you’re sitting by a river at the edge of a forest

• Jackie And Wilson but you’re sitting by a campfire; there’s a thunderstorm brewing in the distance

• Nobody but you’re in bed, cuddled up to your significant other while it’s raining outside

• To Noise Making (Sing) but you’re on a walk through the woods on a nice spring day

• Moment’s Silence (Common Tongue) but it’s playing from an old radio that your friend/SO and you took with you to hang out by a lake on a nice summer day

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Some cute musical things to do during quarantine 

Listen to your favorite songs and find artwork or photos that match their vibe 

Find a score or piece of sheet music and read through it slowly, follow along and play the piece in your mind from start to finish. Take your time. 

Send music to a friend. Introduce the people you love to the music you love

Make a Pinterest board for each different type of music you like to listen to 

Try learning a new song on an instrument you don’t play or aren’t skilled in — don’t have any instruments at hand? Try percussions! Or sing! 

Put on an album that deserves more love and go for a walk in a direction you’ve never explored before 

Play music out loud and dance. Spin in circles like nobody is watching. Let it all go

#classical music #music #musician #music lovers #classical art #art #quarantine #things to do #things to try #meditation #self care #dark academia #light academia #aesthetic #cottagecore #study aesthetic #music to study to

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This quarantine has finally given me time to sit in my room and listen to all of my favourite classical pieces in full, from beginning to end, without interruption. And honestly, it’s like meditation. With that music, my mind is transported elsewhere.

To have nothing on my hands but time makes me feel like a 19th century noble lounging in a salon listening to the chamber group play for hours, or like a shepherd watching the sunset in the spring and just letting time pass them by...

Classical music is such a fantastic form of art that can take your mind to different times, places and moods, and I’ve gotta say that being able to take a moment to listen to it is so soothing.

#what's your favorite #classical music #classical literature #dark academia #light academia #study aesthetic #quarantine #meditation #music

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thoughts?

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Some days, being a musician is the hardest thing in the world. Sometimes it feels impossible.

When you spend hours and hours alone in a practice room, sometimes playing the same five notes over and over and over again until you think you’ll go insane.

When you hear such beautiful music in your head but you can’t make it come out, no matter how hard you try.

When you’re your own harshest critic, and there’s nothing you can do to make yourself happy, and everything you’re doing is wrong.

And worst, there are those horrible days when your very best is simply not good enough, when all you can so is go back into that practice room and aim for a perfection that’s impossible to attain.

But it’s all worth it. For that one perfect play-through, even if you’re in the practice room and the only person to hear it. For that one passage or harmony that twists your heart just so and reminds you why you’re a musician, sending you right back into that practice room not because you fell short but because a million different opportunities just opened up and you can’t stand not making music right that second. For that utterly complete exhaustion of mind and body, burning hands, that only comes after a performance that took everything you have and a little bit more. For the realization that THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS PERFECT, that ‘right’ is an infinity of possibility, that there’s no such thing as ‘wrong.’

And that is why I keep going back to the practice room day after day, pushing through inconveniences and disappointments. Because I’m addicted to that indescribable feeling of pouring out music and knowing it’s not coming from me, that I’m an instrument myself. My happiest and saddest moments have all been because of music, but music gets me through the sad and makes me so much more than happy. Because I have music in my heart and in my hands, and I can no more keep it inside me than I can stop my heart beating or my lungs breathing.

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“Sound Of My Heart” by Bianca Green

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reylo is dead. mozart/salieri (Amadeus, 1984) is in. mozart/salieri from the movie amadeus is the new reylo