#orchestra tag

[ferrisbuellers]

rb and share in the tags the first song you heard in 2024

#mine was to build a home by the cinematic orchestra #totally at random but it is one of my favourite songs #in the tags #random shit that no one cares about #doing this for like the 4th year in a row #userbbelcher #happy new year

[heartorbit]

i'm sending this endless melody to a nameless you

#SKELETON ORCHESTRA AND LILIA I NEED YOU #project sekai #emunene #emu otori #nene kusanagi #pjsk #prsk #proseka #wxs cover wishlist copium.. 2!! #i have lots more of them i wanna draw but ill do st least one duet for each pair i think. maybe nnks next ive had one for them forever #Gyaaaa #Crying i have szks lunar new years art that idk how to render im missing the holiday. lord in heaven #Ik every leaker or whatever says this is going to mmj snd it probably will and i'll love the cover but still. emunene save me #wxs gets songs with nonsense lyrics its possible right Right right #i also wanted setsuna trip to go to emu in any duet but i looove the mnai cover so i won anways #Kind of too sleepy to do my usual. Sorry viewers who like reading theough my insane tags. Dont get covid it makes you sleep 13 hours a day #For the next month. #my friends saw me going nuts over this drawing actually and i gave up hard on nenes dress i just wanted to be done.. love how emus looks.. #wait i actually can be insane in the tags THE WXS WORLDLINK SONG SJHDDYDJKYMY TGYAYDHUA!!! HAGSGYAAH!!!!! GY6;$;$;$;$;$ WHEHEHEHEHEH #WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH. Its so good please help. Wxs tetrad that illuminates the world save me. #why does the 2dmv have all of them under a WEDDING AROOOR WHY IS THERE A WEDDING BELL. CONGRATS ON POLYSHO MARRIAGE. HWATEVVRR!!!!! #wonderlands x showtime killing me taking damage augh Auughg akk akcghj

[haveyoudonethisthing-poll]

*For the purpose of this poll, playing an instrument means very simple ability but basic understanding. Hitting random keys on a piano does not count.

#bonus points for anyone who's done drum corps id love to hear about it in the tags! #band #orchestra #music #instruments #polls #tumblr polls #haveyoudonethisthing poll #requested

[kanonavi]

I was tagged by @radellama, thanks!

~

Last Song: In The Blood, by Darren Korb feat. Ashley Barrett

Favorite Color: Cobalt

Spicy/Sweet/Savory: Genuinely depends on the mood, but spicy food is definitely the most fun to eat

Currently Watching: I've been watching Trigun (1998) with my roommate, and I can't believe how much of a banger it is

Current Obsession: Still in my third year with Genshin, but I've also been thinking very hard about MXTX's novels because another one of my roommates infected me with the brainworms lmao (speficially TGCF and MDZS, but I will get to SVSSS one day)

Tagging: @sl33pyr3v3ri3, @rubberbandballqueen, @h4msanta, @tempests-bards-and-birds, @stardustdiiving

#hey listen! #tag game #My orchestra is playing In The Blood and I'm auditioning for the solo today which is why I was listening to it #Sadly I haven't gotten to the point in Hadesgame where you can hear it #Orpheus and Eurydice are still in their divorce era :pensive: #The game is super fun though I've been enjoying it a lot

[onionamiga]

T-E-C-H-N-O-P-O-L-I-S

(the target audience for this image is very small ooprs ...)

#onion art tag sort #deltarune #deltarune chapter 2 #deltarune fanart #ralsei #berdly #kris deltarune #ralsei deltarune #berdly deltarune #susie deltarune #noelle deltarune #yellow magic orchestra

[nu11-sku11doodles]

Trying to figure out how to draw these guys. I like drawing LongLiver he's so fun to stylize

#brutal orchestra #brutal orchestra longliver #im not tagging all these blokes #vivi.art

[emeraldoo]

ok. so i was thinking. and like. got a good idea. So! -🧪

#emeraldo slay posting #alterposting #PLEASE RB I BEG OF YOU #IM SO VERY INTERESTED IDK WHY BUT PLEASE! #poll #polls #gustav holst #holst #planets #planets suite #the planets suite #poll time #UGH I NEED MORE FUCKING TAGS FOR RECOGNITION! #music #20th century #classical music #< sorry i know this is inaccurate BUT! #orchestral #orchestra #orchestral music #band #concert band #suite

[boltlightning]

hey gamers. the dead man’s chest soundtrack has been rolling around my head a lot lately; the extended soundtrack from this playlist has been a godsend. specifically i want to gush about the instrumentation.

the potc soundtracks use a standard orchestra composition, focusing on strings and brass and less on woodwinds. DMC introduces the kraken and davy jones, who are associated with davy jones’ organ (of course) and — well. hans zimmer went nuts and recorded the orchestra, then piped that recording back over the music through a guitar amp. it sounds uncannily like an electric bass (and yes, a guitar now and then), so for our purposes i am going to say it sounds like electric bass with CRUNCHY reverb. it seems a little counterintuitive to associate ancient and cursed beings with more modern, experimental sounds, but altogether it creates this delightful, otherworldly, primordial rock band feel.

let’s take the track from when we first meet davy jones, dutchman arrival, for instance. it gives us a touch of that electric bass underneath jones’ theme when the sailors first show up, then pivots to normal orchestration as will is fighting. HE doesn’t know who they are, only that they’re odd — and when jones shows up finally, you get the bass holding that melody all on its own, this terrifying, growling refrain that sounds like it’s seething just under the surface. an undercurrent…a heartbeat, perhaps.

hold onto that thought. let’s move on. davy jones and his organ. jones having something as dramatic, expensive, and dominating as an organ on his ship speaks to how authoritative his character is — he’s playing his self-pitying music while his crew is breaking their backs to keep this awful ship sailing. he plays it solo, then the entire orchestra joins in, and beneath it all…the thrum of a heart. the melody of jones’ theme fits lock-and-key with the beat of a heart. here, everything is orchestral, but we’ve added the warm tones of choral voices under it all, like this is a horrible waltz that everyone aboard is doomed to keep dancing. and then it spirals into discordant chaos.

as a bonus: pipe organs have the countermelody playing with foot pedals, usually. imagine jones and his peg leg playing this kind of shit while the squid beard tickles the keys

i also L O V E the chorus humming in the back half of the whipping scene. it makes my skin crawl.

this all builds to the second kraken attack, the attack that introduces the viewer to the kraken in person. just…the constant buzz of the bass under these insane, warning low brass flourishes. the guitar-alike sound is in full force here and drapes this growly, eerie echo over the entire score. just when you hit the natural apex of the song, when you think you might reach some sort of musical resolution, it cuts out for a caesura — and bursts back in with the organ melody, huge and overwhelming over it all, as the kraken FULLY CRACKS A SHIP IN HALF. just in case you forgot who made this all happen. this is the EXACT way a heroic theme would triumphantly emerge in any classical piece of work. eat your heart out, holst.

the way jones’ theme is reprised with horns in the ship to ship score is so chilling too. it’s played in will's instrument after all! it's this teeny little bit of hope, a sign the pearl might get away — yet it’s getting lost in all the tenor voices just to really remind you how hopeless this all is. and then everything drops away and jones’ theme fully emerges in the low bass; it’s raunchy and nasty and so, so scary. god. what a score.

they do such a good job with the themes, even without visuals it’s so easy to tell who is on screen doing what in any of the tracks from the wheel of fortune section (specifically heart madness on the extended soundtrack). if there’s soaring brass and string stings, you know local romance heroes will and norrington are trying to kill each other on the wheel. if it’s quiet with a plucky little string soli, low reeds, and snare accents, you know jack is doing some shenanigans off to the side. if there’s deep and growling bass and organ swells, it’s elizabeth and pintel and ragetti racing against the crew of the dutchman for the heart.

in particular there’s this delightful bit in the track immediately preceding it, 3-way sword fight, where the melody starts and stops as all three dudes with swords are getting their footing on the various precarious places they take their fight. it builds and builds, and soon the melody is getting juggled by three different groups of instruments as elizabeth gets drawn into the fight too. talk about chaos.

on a related, but more lowkey character note: i ADORE that beckett’s associated instrument is the harpsichord. you only hear it a little bit in the track when will is bargaining with beckett. the harpsichord immediately puts you in the mind of aristocratic england; it was a household instrument back then, it’s plausibly an instrument beckett could play himself! it’s particular, but at the same time it’s subtle. it’s not dominating. he’s a new player in the game with a unique position, and damn does he know how to play the game.

and FINALLY. to compare beckett to someone ostentatious in a much different way: jack is associated with two themes, summed up perfectly in this track. this big, great, sweeping, seafaring melody we know and love, with regimented snare drum and timpani, the whole nine yards. it invokes jack’s reputation, the captain in his title…and then it fades to that stupid little soli, the gremlin trickster we all know and love.

yet compare that track with this demo of the same themes — it’s the exact same music, just with a solo piano, and it sounds so moody, even when the key and tempo pick up. THAT’S the power of instrumence baby! the texture, timbre, and context of any given melody changes the weight and impact, even if the notes are exactly the same. 

finally finally: i hope the timpani player finds a million dollars every day in the street.

ok. phew. this soundtrack makes me want to go learn cello and i needed to get that out of my system. thanks for coming to my tedtalk.

#bolt watches potc #pirates of the caribbean #dead man's chest #music #(i worked hard on this i'm putting it in the tag) #hey also. if anyone knows which orchestras recorded the soundtracks i'd be forever grateful!! want to make sure they're credited

[h4msanta]

The super cool @kanonavi and I created an incredibly detailed Genshin Orchestra AU! There is so much that can be said about it, but here’s the trombone section for now!

Wriothesley is a bit of an old and jaded criminal justice major who has been at this university for way too long. Yanfei is a law major and Hu Tao is a mortuary science major, and they both still have hope and joy in their eyes :)

Wriothesley becomes one of the girlies after showcasing his dry wit in rehearsal, and Sigewinne is very happy that he now has friends who get him to do activities. Hu Tao and Yanfei don't have a car and Wriothesley does, so he is quickly roped into driving them to rehearsals, and then to get groceries, and then to go shopping... and then be weird in the Taco Bell drive thru at 11:30pm

They take him to get boba for the first time and he likes it! Now they show up late almost every week because they're getting fun drinks :D

While you're here, go look at my friend's art of the oboe section!

#genshin #genshin fanart #genshin impact #genshin art #wriothesley #hu tao #yanfei #orchestra au #there is an entire list of drawings i want to do for this au i just have to stay motivated lol #fatui harbinger dnd group...the absolute state of the tenor section...the 4 beautiful women of the sax section...woah #genshin orchestra au #< tagging it as this for now! #ham makes art

[girlhelpicf]

they are enraged at the sight of eachother (AU fic by @sunflowersandscreams)

HES PISSEd!!!!!!!!

#solangelo #solangelo art #should i tag this orchestra au #solangelo fic

[random-human-being2311]

there is just something so beautiful about songs about the joy you get from such mundane things.

like singing about how the weather's sunny or the weather's rainy but in a way so heartfelt and uplifting the song stays with you, close to your heart for years to come even if you don't know its name

like singing about how much you love your best friends. not because they recently did something that particularly amazes you but just appreciating them being there for you and just generally genuinely making you happy

the most mundane everyday things can become the most meaningful and heartfelt and it's probably just because I'm aroace but I feel that they're so much more genuine than songs about how happy you are because you and your romantic partner got back together or something

i remember seeing a youtube comment a short while back that was along the lines of "I know that usually it's only love songs that are meaningful but this song is the exception" and just thinking dear god how sad must this person's life be if they can't find beauty in anything other than something to do with love. Have you never just stared at a bird perched in a tree singing? Never seen a painting so full of colours that compliment each other in such a way that they each make the others look brighter but it never becomes a clashing over-the-top mess but a harmony of rainbows? Never just eaten a really good meal?

I would trade a thousand shallow, boring, generic songs about romance or heartbreak in exchange for one song about the beauty in the mundane things we take for granted.

#aroace #ace #aro #aromantic #asexual #yes this was originally about the beatles how could you tell #but don't think this was ever intended to be EXCLUSIVELY about them #I just first had this thought when listening to Here Comes The Sun and Mr Blue Sky and Friends Will Be Friends #that one commenter ALONE drove me to make this how the heck could you think that love songs are automatically the most meaningful like tf?? #I just don't understand it at all in any way #my whole life I've thought they're the most shallow and meaningless and repetitive #honestly though for my whole life I've been very obviously aroace even if I didn't know it so take that with a grain of salt #oh also shoutout to the beatles song Rain #it's a personal favourite of mine because I'm a weirdo (/affectionate) who likes rainy weather #so just hearing a song about rain where it's happy and the rain is a positive thing is just like damn this song was designed for me #I mean even if it weren't for that I'd probably still love Rain because it's a bop #dear god I need to stop putting so many tags on everything #the beatles #queen band #electric light orchestra #yes i know the irony of making a post about how there are things much better than love songs and then tagging the beatles #I may be autistic but I'm not THAT bad at picking up on social cues #ok that was a lie I AM that bad #but this one specific time I'm not #that one's ramblings

[pencildragons]

moving on from this post, i am now assigning Everyone in the archives an instrument

tim: lies and tells everyone he can play harmonica. he cannot play harmonica. was actually a concert percussionist in the london symphony orchestra for four years. he is taking this secret to his grave (he thinks) (everyone else knows. he’s only fooling himself). he once accidentally wound up winning a stras violin in a bet, then donated it to a charity shop because he didn’t know how to play it.

sasha: CAN play the harmonica, chooses not to. played cello from second grade until her first year of university, has not touched it since the Bow Incident Of 2004. tim knows. is once convinced when very drunk to try the cello belonging to a pub band member. promptly rocked everyone’s socks off. was going to start playing cello again in july 2016, but--well. the NotThem has no interest in music.

martin: does not play an instrument, but desperately wanted to learn french horn. is a very good singer, however, and was a treble in his church choir until his mother got too sick. Nobody Has Heard Him Sing Ever

basira: nothing /affectionate. she can, however, dance very groovily, a skill Nobody Else in the archives possesses

daisy: she’s actually a very accomplished pianist, but did also once destroy an entire piano so now the entire archives thinks she hates musicians and all that they stand for. she owns a 17 year old keyboard that has electrocuted her twice

melanie: was classically trained as a singer, however i know in my heart of hearts one of her parents was australian, so she can also play lagerphone, bush bass, and the spoons Very Well. once she (accidentally) played the spoons on ghuk and the audience lost their fucking minds. she and georgie secretly have a two-woman bush band

jon: i mentioned this in the post that sparked this one, but he’s a violist. he also plays at least 5 other instruments and sings very well, but fundamentally thinks that viola is the coolest. he does everything by ear. one of these 5 instruments is squeezebox and another is electric guitar. i leave you, the reader, to decide the other three. people think he only plays viola because he never fucking shuts up about it

honourable mentions:

georgie: drum-kit. she cannot read sheet music. this was, in fact, one of the original attracting forces between her and jon, who can but doesn’t want to

gerry: the obvious answer is bass guitar, However. i think he also won prizes for banjo playing

dishonourable mentions:

peter lukas: treble tin whistle

gertrude: french horn. also piano. also the trumpet. also. uhh. hmm. there is a chance she may be able to play every single instrument ever

elias: nothing. he does, however, have perfect pitch (insult)

stupid idiot motherfucking jurgen leitner: the recorder. badly.

#i am suddenly compelled to write an orchestra au #(jon's in the mechs on the side) #holy shit time to tag ig #timothy stoker #sasha james #martin blackwood #jonathan sims #basira hussain #daisy tonner #georgie barker #gerry keay #peter lukas #gertrude robinson #elias bouchard #jurgen leitner #tma #the magnus archives #words of wyrm

[emblazons]

not to throw people into their feels on main, but:

nothing prepared me for hearing the the London Contemporary Orchestra as they were recording the version of El’s theme when she left Papa (or the alternate take on the main theme they ended the season with)

I feel like we always analyze music and never talk about how insanely beautiful it is, and I aim to personally change that lol

#el hopper #stranger things #just…the sheer amount of work that so many people put into this show is enough to bring tears to my eyes #Kyle and Michael have made such a lovely score always and hearing orchestras reminds me how amazing it really is lmao #I want to shake all of their hands lmao #st crew #st score #the me tag

[bilbao-song]

i like jeffrey

#top secret little known fact about me no. 12564847356 #jeff lynne #elo #electric light orchestra #i will shove anything in the tag <3 shamelessly #nonsense rambling

[hmm-ctrl]

perfectly good excuse to draw all the things i like (the. thing where u draw characters from ur most recently played games together.)

#i love thinkking about things and places. i love to draw my sillies. yipppeeee #me and my three best friends slugcat hamis and anton. and yes they smork weed #soeepy #rain world #rainworld #rain world fanart #rainworld fanart #brutal orchestra #unsure whether to tag noita here because i dont think theres really a community here..... whatever

[desceros]

i imagined the title was [silence] because what leo admitted to was so unbelievably fucked up that the orchestra just. stopped playing and stared at him like this

LMFAO god. ok take back the canon explanation, this one is way funnier and i hereby word of god it into being the new canon explanation

#god. orchestra people have the BITCHIEST stares too. ice cold. #ask tag #symphony tag