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Meryl Streep reads 'Luchai' by Wang Wei and 'A Letter to Agnes DeMille' by Martha Graham featuring Yo-Yo Ma performing George Crumb's 'Sonata for Solo Cello'.
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aaaaatillathenun · 10 months
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Just went to SUCH a good concert my god but like all their energy came from performing and being onstage and idk if the recordings would be as good
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smalltittykitty · 1 year
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Music major behavior
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thevaldomarx2269 · 1 year
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There are very few pieces for solo cello, but this sonata by Kodaly really showcases its diversity. I would argue that it's better than anything Bach produced, but I may be biased.
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Do I even NEED an introduction?
Hm, Well, Hello. I'm Antonio Vivaldi, the red priest, and the greatest composer of all time. As you should know, I wrote Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons), my most famous work. Part of Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione ("The Contest between Harmony and Invention"), it depicts moods and scenes from each of the four seasons. I also wrote more than 500 other concertos. About 350 of these are for solo instrument and strings, of which 230 are for violin, the others being for bassoon, cello, oboe, flute, viola d'amore, recorder, lute, or mandolin. About forty concertos are for two instruments and strings, and about thirty are for three or more instruments and strings. As well as about 46 operas, I composed a large body of sacred choral music, such as the Magnificat RV 610. Other works include sinfonias, about 90 sonatas and chamber music. Some sonatas for flute, published as Il Pastor Fido, have been erroneously attributed to me, but were composed by Nicolas Chédeville.
I go by any pronouns except she/her, and I'm aroace, so don't even try to Rizz me up (you'll fail anyway). Yes I'm autistic and yes I'm depressed. And yes I will speak some (poor) Italian here.
I'm the best composer, don't even try me. And yes, I hold grudges, every pretty boy does.
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k00292537 · 6 months
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Project: Disrupt
Week : 30th Oct - 3rd Nov
Artist research - Idris Khan
I started looking into Idris Khan after Yvonne recommended him to me. Khan takes interest in the multiple ways classical music is interpreted by musicians today. He shows this passage of time in music by layering each music sheet of musicians, such as Beethoven and Bach.
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Khan created these pieces through photography, then each image is layered to create the piece.
Khan’s work influences my project as he deals with both sounds of music and layering images, which is what I’ve been looking into also. I love the disorganised look of his pieces above, and I think they relate to the theme ‘disrupt’. I think I could try out photography later in my project, and see what I can create by layering my own images.
Image 1 - ‘Bach… Six Suites for the Solo Cello’ 2006
Image 2 - ‘Struggling to Hear…. After Ludwig van Beethoven Sonatas’ 2005
Image 3 - ‘Every … Page of the Holy Qur’an’ 2004
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sevarix-blogs · 6 months
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what are your favorite solo viola pieces
honestly... most of my faves are works originally for cello but transposed for viola hehe
for example.... the swan:
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schubert's cello sonata but for viola!
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(imo it sounds better on viola but i'm biased)
elgar's cello concerto:
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and THIS piece is originally for violin and piano... but i like the viola version a lot!!!
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ok back to another piece originally for cello.
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this one. is SO GORGEOUS. and on the viola.... it's just so perfect....
ok here is a piece that is actually originally for viola! it's by rebecca clarke!
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it is also very beautiful...
ty for asking!!!!!! it was fun listening to these again...
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kaylmao · 8 months
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i got tagged by the lovely @official-saul-goodman to share the top 10 songs on my repeats playlist :)
1. The Welsh Arrow - Pierre Bensusan
2. Haydn: String Quartet no. 62 "Emperor" II. Poco adagio; cantabile - Allegro String Ensemble
3. Avril 14th - Aphex Twin
4. Science/Visions - CHVRCHES
5. Overture/All That Jazz - Broadway Cast of Chicago
6. J. S. Bach: Sonata no. 1 for Solo Violin in G Minor II. Fuga - Hilary Hahn
7. Elgar: Cello Concerto - Sheku Kanneh-Mason and London Symphony Orchestra
8. Shostakovich: String Quartet no. 8 - Borodin Quartet
9. Raise Your Voice - Broadway Cast of Sister Act
10. Mist & Shadow - The Sword
this was a lot of fun thank u for the tag!!!!!! im tagging @lilac-est @loverboy-ish @deathcap420
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swanconcerto · 11 months
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part 1 of my redacted classical music au- damn crew
as per @super-trouper-lights 's encouragement, here is an attempt at organising this classical music au that takes up 90% of my brain space at all times.
i've (hopefully) including links to a few pieces that i think suit each character as well :)
psa! i am a pianist, not an orchestral musician, so most of this is coming from anecdotal evidence that i've seen and heard as a serial concertgoer and music student. and my bonus powers of special interest and being right about everything ever.
freelancer: i usually alternate between clarinet and oboe, but i've settled between clarinet being their principal. i also think they've considered trying their hand at conducting! excels at an eclectic mix of classical/modern/jazz pieces- enjoys at the camaraderie of playing symphonic works with the rest of the orchestral, but prefers the freedom and craziness of 20th century music when playing solo. favourite composers are like bartok, prokofiev, shostakovich, stravinsky etc. turns on rite of spring at a house party like "this is my jam!!!" gavin is their go-to accompanist and together they are an absolute dream team because they work together so perfectly, even if they make eyes at each other the whole performance. really good composer too but they're too shy to show their work to anyone outside of the friend group at the minute.
pieces: bernstein sonata for clarinet and piano, templeton pocket sized sonata no.1 III : in rhythm
gavin: pianist, with a heavy focus on ensemble playing. gavin thrives when he can work off the other person(s) energy, and accompaniment really lets him have a lot of fun! really good at keeping up with the soloist even if they switch it up DURING the performance (i can see freelancer doing this...). annoyingly and effortlessly excellent at sightreading and transposing. he can play solo too but i think having all eyes on him alone on the stage makes him uneasy. if he is playing a solo work i can see him being really into all the basic romantic pieces he's definitely best at chopin and liszt. i can also see him being a fan of brahms! he's really not a fan of the earlier baroque stuff. BIG hand span so he's good at playing rachmaninoff as well. basically, he's a romantic and it shows.
pieces: liszt liebesträume no.3 (this piece is about a love that transcends death. thinking about gav's immortality vs fl's mortality...), chopin nocturne in g minor op. 37 no. 1, brahms intermezzo op. 117 no.2
damien: cellist. second chair (you'll see who is first chair later!) and slightly bitter about it, but he prefers playing solo anyways. very prone to injuries as he tenses up when he loses himself in the music, but he's working on it. REALLY scary to be in a chamber ensemble with. scarily good sense of time and will call you out if you are out by even a millisecond. thought about conducting but decided against it after he nearly made lasko cry for rushing a phrase. serial string breaker. gets a little starstruck around musicians he really respects. a real asset to the orchestra because his passion and drive is infectious. actually counts his rests LOL. has a beautiful tenor voice but rarely shows it off. has a notebook dedicated to cello and takes detailed notes after every lesson, rehearsal, and performance. loves having an art form to just throw himself into.
pieces: brahms cello sonata, elgar cello concerto
huxley: PERCUSSIONIST! him and xavier man the percussion section at the back of the orchestra- huxley has definitely gotten too into the music and accidentally launched a mallet into the orchestra before; apologised profusely afterwards. likes to play tuned and untuned percussion equally. goes ham on the timpani! amazing sense of rhythm. often taps out little bits of what he's playing whilst he's going about his day. often has a little dance when he's playing! is also super good at little jazz or bossa nova improvisations on the piano. huxley really doesn't play anything pre-19th century, but sometimes if he'll listen to some early baroque pieces whilst he's walking home or lying in bed, and hum along. really likes bach's cello suites to calm down. gets damien to play them for him while he lounges on the floor like a very happy cat. the most interested in music outside of the western canon- he thinks it's all super fascinating.
pieces: márquez danzón no. 2, reich mallet quartet iii: fast (this one sounds really earthy to me? for some reason.)
lasko: did you really think he would be anything but a flautist?! flute posterboy. amazing breath control, but often rushes phrases (he plays like he rambles!) likes being in the same section as freelancer as they always give him a little thumbs up before he has any solo parts. gavin usually accompanies him for solo work but sometimes lasko gets so flustered he breathes funny into his flute and all that comes out is this strange honking sound- gavin isnt sure whether it came from the flute or lasko himself. his favourite composers are ravel and debussy as he just loves the impressionist sound- always listens to debussy's preludes when he's winding down before bed. recently has been obsessed with debussy's la mer- perhaps it reminds him of a certain someone...? also quite the mozart fan! lasko gets really lost in the music when he plays and tends to lose all of his inhibitions- it's lovely for his friends to see him relaxed and happy like that, and it's also very therapeutic for him.
pieces: glick flute sonata i: fast, mozart concerto for flute and harp 2nd mov (with a certain water elemental playing the harp part...) , ravel valses nobles et sentimentales ii: assez lent (okay i know the flute isnt that prominent in this but it just reminds me of him)
bonus: caelum is a very enthusiastic piano student, hoping to take after his big brother gavin :D
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faszaakisshobbi · 1 year
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im back guys and here's my updates on everything!!
the trip was good. I am still exhausted, we walked a lot and my legs are sore. but we got a 99.25 score and 1st place in best school music department and best string orchestra. П seemed happy but exhausted and we embarrassed her a bunch by yelling and cheering whenever they called her name and our school, she would giggle and turn red but it was nice. I feel like we did a lot better than expected! one of the judges also was flirting with her afterwards and tried to get her contact. she just frowned in his face and walked away 💀 I DIDNT SIT NEXT TO HER (she has boundaries and I respect them) BUT I WANTED TO. I COULD HAVE FALLEN ALSEEP ON HER SHOULDER. she looked so great the entire time!! and we convinced her to take a group photo with the orchestra (she is never in photos related to school or with students) but I was the one to convince her!!!! she ran over and stood right in front of me and kind of leaned back a bit into me(?). I almost put my hand on her shoulder but I physically couldn't 😭😭 I didn't drive myself there in the morning and went with a friend, my mom had to pick me up at night and she was 30 minutes late even though I told her when to arrive and П had to wait with me really late I felt really bad. she didn't seem too annoyed though.
I saw Б on Thursday and again Saturday. lesson was very good, she also kept me over 40 minutes gossiping and just giving me more lesson time which was very kind of her. she was pushing me a lot but also I had made a lot of progress in 2 weeks. we are starting a new piece now too im super excited!! she got me 4 free tickets to this cello concerto for Saturday night (IT WAS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING AND THEN HE DID THIS EXTRA SOLO PIECE HE WAS SO GREAT). I brought a friend and they wanted to meet her and I did the stupidest thing. I got the SECOND CHAIR cellist (that is the director of 3 different organizations and i'm pretty sure has her doctorate and is the most intimidating woman ever) to get Б's attention so my friend and I could talk to her. I only did that after the cellist yelled at me for missing a master class and she was like "uhh you want Б? yeah I suppose??" and then Б came out and was just like "oh hi? I don't know your friend" then we just introduced and her and I talked about my sonata and the concert and my friend was just standing there. I FEEL LIKE I MADE Б UNCOMFORTABLE. my other friends said she looked perfectly happy but I felt really bad. she never comes to talk during intermission because she hates people lol. I just feel really bad but I think its okay. and then she was pointing to me for her stand partner. I hope I didn't deter her too badly to the point of her acting different in lesson. im just overthinking things. maybe she will have thought it was funny how confident I was and she'll be even sweeter??
anyway, if you read the whole thing ty! im sure there will be more to post that I just ended up forgetting, but yeah :)
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Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967) - Sonata in B minor for solo cello, Op.8, mvt. III,
performed by Sebastian Bäverstam
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2022-mmac · 6 months
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Sundays at 2pm at MMAC Center
Three Sunday concerts of original music composed and performed by local musicians
Events made possible by funding from the New Mexico Music Commission https://www.newmexicomusic.org/
November 5: James Yeager
James Albert Yeager moved to New Mexico in 2009. He has performed regularly as conductor, organist, harpsichordist, and choral accompanist. He retired as Professor of Sacred Music at the Josephinum College in Columbus, Ohio (1984-2009). James has done numerous compositions and arrangements, including music for two short films. His orchestral works have been performed in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. At present, his primary musical interest remains as a composer
Program: The program will center on James’ three recent compositions: Passacaglia for Organ & Orchestra (2022), Fugue for Piano and Chamber Orchestra ”Mystical Desert”(2023), and Sonata for Piano Quintet (2023). Since the Passacaglia and the Fugue require large ensembles, they will be performed using recordings from Ravel Virtual Studios (NYC) . The Sonata will be played by New Mexico musicians - Flutist Ms. Hyorim Kim, a string quartet of Eric Sewell, Grant Hanner and Lisa Donald, and pianist Natalia Tikhovidova. - as a premiere performance. James will also play short pieces from his film scores. The program will last one hour and is free to the public.
November 12: Michael Hays
Mike Hays is a retired English teacher who has been playing music, especially on bass, since he was a young teen. In the last ten years, he has taken his interest in songwriting more seriously and has been creating jazz-based both vocal and instrumental compositions for the group he is working with. The current group (to whom Mike is deeply grateful) is more classically based, and the audience of the November Concert Series will notice his current compositions reflect this.
Program: Basement Dancing is a group that performs music written by Michael Hays. The group comprises Luis Delgado on clarinet and flute, Juli Palidino on viola and violin, Katie Harlow on cello, mandolin and accordion, Joseph Sabella on drums, and Michael Hays on bass and vocals. . Vocal songs at this concert will include musical portraits of the lonely soul waiting for his lost love in the Plaza de los Arboles Muertos, of the longing that hapless Señor Sapo feels as he watches a lovely circus acrobat, and of the nocturnal activities of Groany Bones, a skeleton who leads a danse macabre.
November 17: Kathleen Ryan + Exhibit Opening of "Masks & Metal"
Composer/pianist Kathleen Ryan is a Whisperings Solo Piano artist. She was the Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico commissioned composer in 2008, for which she composed a set of 24 piano left-hand-alone preludes titled Verbs. Several of her piano solo pieces were featured in the Emmy Award-winning Iowa Public TV special, The Seasons. Ryan lives near Mountainair with her husband and two quirky but inspiring cats.
Program: Composer/pianist Kathleen Ryan's piano solo performance will illustrate aspects of her composer’s life: being inspired, becoming ambitious, recovering from writer’s block, making money, and recycling teenage angst songs into piano solos. She will finish with some premieres, including music that’s not quite composed just yet! The full range of her 21st century impressionist style will be heard, from silly to soothing, from complex to simply serene.
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artistiade · 1 year
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(via Nikolai Kapustin - Classical Music Daily)
Nikolai Kapustin
Russian composer and pianist Nikolai Kapustin was born at Horlivka in Eastern Soviet Ukraine on 22 November 1937. When he was four, his family moved to Tokmok in Kyrgyzstan. He wrote his first piano sonata when he was thirteen, and began studying piano at fourteen in Moscow with Avrelian Rubakh. From 1945 he began to discover jazz (whch had been suppressed under Stalin), developing a career as a jazz pianist, arranger and composer, with a compositional style which fused jazz and classical music. Kapustin studied at the Moscow Conservatory (1956-61) with Russian pianist, teacher and composer Alexander Goldenweiser.
He first worked as a member of the Oleg Lundstrem Big Band, and several of his own compositions were performed by Oleg Lundstrem with Kapustin on piano. From about 1972 he moved on to work with the Radio Orchestra for five years and then the Cinema Orchestra for seven years. From the early 1980s he was able to work full-time as a composer.
Kapustin's music has been taken up by leading pianists such as Marc-André Hamelin and Steven Osborne. Several recordings have been released on labels including Melodiya and Triton. Other unreleased recordings also exist. Many of them have been rescued by his son, theoretical physicist Anton Kapustin.
Kapustin made it clear that he wasn't interested in improvisation, and that all his 'improvisations' were actually written out, which improved them. He thought of himself as a classical composer working in a jazz idiom rather than as a jazz musician. His music can sound like jazz improvisation, but is often modelled on Baroque forms.
Nikolai Kapustin died on 2 July 2020, aged eighty-two, in Moscow, leaving over 160 compositions, including twenty piano sonatas, six piano concertos, music for solo piano and four hands, a violin concerto, two cello concertos, compositions for orchestra, big band and a significant body of chamber music.
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chaosdancer · 8 months
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Buonasera chaos musicista!
Da un po' non ci sentiamo spero stai bene 💙
Ti posso chiedere una nuova ricerca musicale per una serata in cui il vuoto si fa sentire un po' troppo e una musica magari dolce come una carezza può cullare l'anima? 🎹
Ehilà, da quanto tempo! Io, tutto sommato, sto bene ma sempre tremendamente immerso nello studio "matto e disperatissimo". Spero che anche tu stia bene in generale. Mi dispiace che il vuoto si stia facendo sentire e che sia fastidioso (ma ricorda che il vuoto è essenziale, anche in maniera intrusiva, dato che bisogna fare tesoro di tutte le emozioni che proviamo e render loro giustizia in qualche modo).
Riguardo alla mia ricerca: è veramente un territorio vastissimo quello che mi stai chiedendo e io qui sotto ho fatto una selezione tra le prime cose che mi sono quasi venute in mente. Ma sappi che con l'arte si impara molto che ognuno ha i suoi canoni per quello che riguarda sfumature di emozioni (e anche per ciò che è "bello" o "brutto"). Io, sotto, ti lascio quello che per me incarna il senso che io dò a "dolce" e "carezza". Come disse il mio più caro maestro di pianoforte: "La musica non la puoi spiegare a parole o con dei concetti, è ineffabile: cerchi di spiegarla ma ti sfugge. È come l'amore che provo per il mio nipotino appena nato: nonostante non conosca per niente quella creaturina, e nonostante non ci abbia mai avuto a che fare, provo un amore inspiegabile per essa." Parole che rimarranno per sempre nel mio cuore; parole che mi sono state dette ormai nel 2016/17.
Mi auguro di cuore che tu, in mezzo alle storture e alle bellezze della vita, riesca a trarne fuori qualcosa di emotivamente e personalmente stimolante. Per esperienza (dopo anni di storture) sono riuscito a trasformare in arte tutte quelle brutture che si ponevano davanti a me (improvvise e non). Ho scoperto che c'è un mondo meraviglioso anche dietro al "brutto" e alle difficoltà che sembrano più insormontabili. Io, personalmente, ho trovato la mia via: l'arte mi ha sostenuto in quei momenti e io ho trasformato quei momenti in arte.
Ci sarebbe parecchio da discorrere su tutto questo ma non mi dilungherò oltre, molte persone oggigiorno si spaventano per una sinfonia di Mahler che dura un'ora o per uno scritto che non sia aforistico (alla Nietzsche o alla Bukowski) e non mi sto assolutamente riferendo a te dato che è una considerazione generale che purtroppo è presente da anni nella mia mente...
Ogni volta continuerò a ringraziarti per gli stimoli perché ogni volta esce fuori qualcosa di abbastanza prolisso da scrivere in calce ahaha
Per i primi tre brani gioco in casa (pianistica) con dei classiconi
Qui, invece arrivano gli archi. Ho riascoltato giusto prima di cena la sonata di Elgar per ricordarmi perché io provi un amore smisurato per questo compositore (soprattutto quando scrive per violino e violoncello). Da qui anche il collegamento al magnifico "Cigno" di Saint-Saens altri classiconi insomma
Qui il terzo movimento del quartetto con pianoforte di Schumann, un pezzo a me carissimo negli ultimi mesi (che credo di suonare in quartetto a partire da novembre). Anche questo molto famoso
L'ultima è una chicca personale a cui sono particolarmente affezionato. Il primo lavoro di Scriabin per pianoforte e orchestra, il Concerto Op. 20. Inizialmente pensavo di lasciarti solo il secondo movimento ma poi ho deciso di inserire anche il primo (capirai verso il secondo minuto il perché)
Non sono brani esattamente tutti dolci da capo a coda ma è meglio così: incarna esattamente quello che scrivevo sopra. La musica è da sempre paragonata alla vita umana e sarebbe falsa se non avesse dei momenti di contrasto con dolcezza e gioia. Fanno parte della bilancia della vita, fatta di gioie e dolori, momenti vuoti o di incertezza alternati a felicità e spensieratezza. Ma anche la musica solo completamente gioiosa e spensierata sarebbe noiosa esattamente come quella solo triste e disperata, non trovi? Qui sto facendo una mezza critica agli Strauss (padre e figlio) dei valzer dei Capodanni viennesi ma è una critica che viene mossa da quando sono stati scritti quei brani. In effetti le critiche (anche dai filosofi) sono state mosse riguardo un tipo di musica non realistico per l'essere umano, io lo definisco quasi alla "Paese dei Balocchi".
Riguardo a prima, per musica, intendo musica di un certo tipo: non mi riferisco a canzoni da tre minuti che trattano solo un tema o ad un jingle pubblicitario (e lo scrivo senza voler peccare di superbia)
Smetto di scrivere perché non vorrei fare la figura della persona che dice grandi quantità di cose esprimendo pochissimi concetti (o non dicendo assolutamente nulla ahaha)
Per quanto riguarda la tua richiesta, se vuoi, ho tantissimi brani di Chopin che sarebbero perfetti. Non volevo monopolizzare tutto su Chopin (nonostante sia il mio primo e grande amore da quando ero piccolo). Nel dubbio ti consiglierei proprio tutto ciò che Chopin ha scritto in vita sua (e in una settimana non intensiva di ascolto si può fare, due anni fa mi ero riascoltato tutto Chopin in tre giorni)
Okay, ora mi scuso per quanto ho scritto. E mi scuso anche per il ritardo nel rispondere, magari quando ti sveglierai non ti servirà più. Spero che leggerai e che le mie parole ti arriveranno (e che possano arrivare anche a tutti quelli che avranno voglia di leggere). Sono aperto a qualsiasi cosa avrai da dire riguardo a quello che ho scritto, il dialogo costruttivo, civile e con opinioni divergenti fanno sempre aprire la mente e far vedere oltre alle proprie prospettive (spesso limitate e limitanti) facendo crescere le persone coinvolte.
Ti auguro una serena notte🌙✨
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julietianboy · 2 years
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- musiden
definition: a xeniden related to music in general, or music in all of its forms.
etymology: music + iden
themes: birds singing, listening to the radio on a long car ride, a box of CDs, taking dust off a vinyl, humming, karaoke nights, lullabies, feeling the rhythm while you listen, making playlists, writing lyrics at the edge of your notebook, concerts, a busy theatre, folk songs, clapping
names: canto, song, lyre, carol, aria, sonata, apollo, pan, vox, lyric, melody, harmony, cadence, rhythm, harper, strummer, singer, tempo, calliope
viola, jazz, indie, rock, piper, alto, fifer, canary, drummer, symphony, adagio, bell, clarion, minuet, cello, radio, allegro, rhapsody, tango, opera, serenade, harp
chanson, serenata, cappella, duet, solo, choir, hymn, vinyl, dj, disco, cd, riff, amphion, siren, blues, ballad, banjo, medley, octave, tom, tune, poet
pronouns: am/amp/amps, son/song/songs, muse/music/musics, music/musics/musicals, lyr/lyre/lyric, hy/hym/hymn, si/sir/siren, note/notes/notes
fashion: headphones, band merch, music note patterns, earbuds, instrument case, music themed accessories, shirts with song lyrics, musical merch, portable music players
hobbies & interests: music, playing instruments, singing, dancing, musical theatre, opera, music theory, poetry
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shadooonemusic · 10 months
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Smooth performance 🎶🤌. Posted @withregram • @cello_society @dorottyastandi performs György Ligeti Sonata for Solo Cello 💫💫 @shadooonemusic
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