#music theorist

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Important Mexican composer and conductor Carlos Chavez (1899 – 1978) dies in Mexico City. At age 16, Chavez completed his first symphony – but the ballet “El fuego nuevo” (“The New Fire,” 1921) was the first significant work that he completed in what he later deemed to be a “true Mexican style.” As a young man he traveled widely in Europe and the United States, in 1928 he founded and became conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of Mexico. From 1928 to 1933 he also served as Director of the Mexican National Conservatory. Chavez’s music is unmistakably “Mexican” in its melodic patterns and rhythmic inflections… but despite drawing inspiration from Mexican music and Mexican folk traditions, Chavez was also deeply influenced by avant garde European composers of the day – especially Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971) and Arnold Schoenberg (1874 – 1951). Out of all his colleagues, Chavez was undoubtedly the closest with Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990). Both composers worked to create a distinct musical sound world that spoke to their home countries at a time when Europe was seen by many cognoscenti as the only true font of “serious” music. They wrote to each other regularly – and on one memorable occasion, in the 1930s, Chavez sent Copland a letter expressing his annoyance at what he perceived to be “self-important” attitudes in Europe. Copland responded as follows: “All you wrote about music in America awoke a responsive echo in my heart. I am through with Europe, Carlos, and I believe, as you do, that our salvation must come from ourselves, and we must fight the foreign element in American music…” PICTURED: A lovely portrait photograph showing the young Chavez in a very self-serious pose, which he signed and inscribed to a friend.

#Carlos Chávez #Chávez #classical music #music history #composer #classical composer #classical singer #classical composers #classical musicians #classical musician #classical history #musicians #musician #historian of music #conductor #music theorist #educator #journalist #director #Mexican Symphonic Orchestra #Orchestra #symphony #Sinfonía india #Piano Sonata #Sonata #Concerto #Concert

[lemonlinelights]

*Lex taking notes*

#I haven’t watched the style vid yet #this popped into my brain #as soon as I saw the thumb nail #anywayyssss #black friday musical #black friday #starkid #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #lex foster #matpat #the theorists

[knighted-princess]

Bye, Bye Mr. Game Theorist Guy (American Pie Cover)

Good video. Recommend watching it.

#matpat #game theory #game theorists #video game #video game lore #music #Youtube

[alto-tenure]

okay, but hearing Worthy is in 7/8 -- "it's like a cliff, and if I say it, I'm just going to fall" -- and the time signature giving the feeling that the song is constantly falling, stumbling forward. "I think we're already falling."

#rwby #bumbleby #i'm not really a music theorist at least not like this. but. but.

[creature-wizard]

This song is a perfect illustration of how moral panics are sown.

Harold Hill wants to sell a product, but there's no market for it. So he creates one by fabricating a problem out of thin air. He proclaims that the pool table is a slippery slope to moral degradation. He claims that ordinary child behavior is proof that their society is already degrading. He presents himself as Just A Concerned Citizen and appeals to people's vanity ("now, I know that all of you folks are the right kind of parents!"). He creates connections that are absolute nonsense ("you got trouble with T and that rhymes with P and that stands for pool!"), but he's so charismatic that everyone just accepts them.

Of course, the pool table isn't a problem, and Harold Hill knows it. He just wants to make a profit. And so he sows a moral panic in order to make what he's offering seem impossible to turn down.

Political reactionaries do the same thing. They find anything and claim it's going to ruin society, that society's already in the process of being ruined, and if you want to stop it, you have to buy into what they're offering: fascism.

#video #the music man #ya got trouble #moral panic #conspiracy theorists #fascism #reactionaries #moral panics #rhetoric #Youtube #critical thinking #discernment

[ccrisntok]

This is slightly suggestive but I don't think it's NSFW, but if you're uncomfortable you can skip it.

Arei threatening David by saying she's gonna fuck his sister and David's flabbergasted reaction (they're bffs don't worry)

first time ive ever drawn "Diana".

hope whoever that is doesn't end up being David's wife or some crazy shit and not actually his sister or this joke wont make sense and I'll look like a complete fool. a joke. a jester in the kingdom of drdt fanartists. ill be laughed out and banished to the shadow realm and die :(

anyway hello again microphony. getting familar with you now. back for more, huh? most cant hold their requests this well. at my. request bar. (can you tell I'm getting tired and losing my mind. thanks for the requests man hope you have a good day)

#shitpost #arei nageishi #david chiem #diana chiem #“diana" #i honestly hope that girl is like david's therapist or something stupid and everyone loses their minds. #how are yall theorists doing. mentally. has David music video driven yall insane yet? That shit looks so hard to comprehend man djkhfhkeu #luv yall <33 keep using ur big brains. unless everythinsg already solved idk i haven't been paying attention for a while

[mirror-to-the-past]

I love Xion's theme so much. Not too much to add- I just love that music exists. The fact that it's the interwoven themes of Riku and Kairi (I can't yet tell if there's more, but I'd love to dissect this piece bit by bit) is just so cool yet narratively crushing, considering her function as a character. When Kairi's motif hits, it just ascends the theme into heavenly status.

Additionally, to any fellow FFXIV fans out there, the part following the introduction of the Kairi motif reminds me of some musical similarities to the "Maker's Ruin" melody, particularly as it is presented in "Heartless" and the Shadowbringers rendition, so it's hard, personally, not to feel a tad emotional hearing it. Xion, a Warrior of Light laden with misfortune...

#just combining my musical fascination of two series don't mind me #they are far from musical equivalents and I'm no theorist- I just listen with my ears #kh xion #xion #kingdom hearts #kh days

[v4lentinn3]

☆-- ɪɴᴛʀᴏᴅᴜᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ᴘᴏꜱᴛ --☆

Hi! I'm Val, I'm a random guy in multiple fandoms such as Welcome Home,Helluva boss,Hazbin hotel,Dead Plate, Deltarune, Undertale and so many more.I sometimes like to make theories on many topics in the fandoms I've listed, mostly in Welcome home.

I'm a massive fan of Gothic literature and poetry in general. My favourite examples of these are

poetry:

“Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day?” by William Shakespeare

“Trees” by Joyce Kilmer

“Love After Love” by Derek Walcott

“Mother To Son” by Langston Hughes

“A Smile To Remember” by Charles Bukowski

Gothic literature:

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

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My music taste mainly consists of:

-Will Wood

-That Handsome Devil

-Oingo Boingo

-Alex G

-TvGirl

-Mitski

-The Smiths

-Frank Sinatra

-Dean Martin

-Tiny Tim

-Teenage Disaster

-Tom Lehrer

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Thank you for reading!!

#introduction #fandoms #music #poetry #gothic #hazbin hotel #jekyll and hyde #helluva boss #undertale #deltarune #welcome home #theorist #frank sinatra #frankenstein #dean martin #SoundCloud

[bridghamgray]

New song by my favorite content creator The Stupendium! I totally recommend listening to it! It’s about MatPat, Game Theory, and all the other Theory channels! Check it out!

#the stupendium #matpat #game theory #film theory #food theory #style theory #team theorist #music #nerdcore #video games #theory #Youtube

[the-fantastic-leo]

MORE THAN JUST A THEORY?!

Of course I'm sad to see the greatest youtuber of all time leave, but I'm not one for sad goodbyes.

Thanks for it all, MatPat.

#matpat #the game theorists #game theory #goodbye internet #science blaster #music #soundcloud #SoundCloud

[mymarifae]

help me

#[insert someone characterizing toya as a serious mature individual] [insert someone Legit hating akito or ena] #[insert someone calling leo/need boring or saying their music sucks] [insert someone hating on mmj as characters] #[insert .. whatever's happening with those sadkasa/mafuyuified-tsukasa 'theorists'] [insert toya tenma deniers] #i can just keep going. forever!don't you guys get tired of being wrong. and misinterpreting the text. i sure am tired of it #this tweet originally said 'the prsk fandom's bad takes about music' #someone said toya's va was screaming in doctor funk beat and it was bad for his throat and ijust #1. you dont know what screaming in music sounds like 2. you really don't know what other voice work kent ito has done huh 😐

[sklogw]

my process for planning an essay or a paper is listing all of the topics i want to cover and then sorting them in the sonata form sections of exposition, development and recapitulation

#idk why but it helps me immensely to visualize it like this #music theorists are on to something

[musicrunsthroughmysoul]

I don't know that I've ever mentioned this before, but finding that quote by Ruth Pointer about the Pointer Sisters' Break Out album reminded me that I have also never really liked its title (even though it's one of my all-time favorite albums). I get that whoever suggested that title (why do I assume it's their producer? Richard Perry, to be specific?) thought it was going to be like their 'break out' album and apparently confidently named it accordingly, but I also think it did a disservice to the Pointer Sisters, suggesting that their material for the past ten years was never good enough to warrant "true" hits of a 'break out' status. I feel that kind of title, for that album at that time, greatly discredited the work they'd done thus far and the effort they'd put into getting to where they were; PLUS, seemingly based on the concept of being a self-fulfilling prophecy, it also seemed to suggest (by popularity, and by quality) that they'd peaked, as none of their albums following Break Out were able to surpass, much less match, the success (chart-wise) of Break Out. I just think it was a shitty move, naming the album that, and the Pointer Sisters deserved better.

#crystal visions of lilies in the valley #sorry for the rant #I haven't even listened to all of the Pointer Sisters' discography but I've listened to at least five of their albums and #I just love them and think that they always deserved better. I don't care how many hits they had - #I think it would've been more interesting had they had more say in their material (early on especially) because #given the quality of the songs written by the sisters I would not be surprised if more of their songs had been passed up on their albums #(by producers) in favor of covers that were 'hit' material. well fuck that. hit material can be written by the singers themselves too! FFS. #but oh no sexism doesn't exist in the music industry. much less misogynoir. oh no. (SARCASM) #especially because the Pointer Sisters resisted genre labels especially early on...or at least they had massive amounts of crossover appeal #AND THAT WAS EVEN WITH THE SONGS THAT *THEY* WROTE THEMSELVES AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #not to sound like a conspiracy theorist but to quote a completely different song and group: #''they just don't want a woman to control her body/or have the right to choose/ ... /they just want a male finger on the button'' #(because what IS a woman's right to choose? a woman's right to choose what? ...you know? IT'S ALL interconnected...is my point.)

[americassoldierboy]

#the game theorists #piano music #matpat