#classical music
Tu che di gel sei cinta,
Da tanta fiamma vinta.
[ You who are bound by ice,
overcome by so much flame. ]
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A night at the opera, anyone?
Not a mistery: I really like Opera, and couldn’t resist planning some themed illustration for the main character of my most recent Webcomic (Click!). Each character will be theme-driven, but I have to say that Nessun Dorma aria was surely an inspiration for her. (Calaf is an asshole, and he doesn’t deserve that gorgeous aria, btw.).
The costume is inspired by a persian stylist, while the shoulder piece was from the sketches of the very first representation of Turandot, back in 1926. It’s so iconic and cool I couldn’t resist keeping it, with a more fitting for her actual provenience neck opening.
Oh, this is traditional, made in Uni Poscas and Molotov acrylic markers!
Hope you like it! :D
Till Queendom Come is a project about an Indian Rakshasi who’s trying to find her lost heart after the East India Company stole it, a Jotunn who didn’t feel like going back to Norway after the Vikings invasions, and the youngest granddaughter of the last druid of St. Ives who’s now trying to keep on the family tradition on her own in spite of being the wrong gender to do so.
Started as a project set in Edwardian England, born in a urge of sudden irritation about seeing Victoria being romanticised everywhere by a cynical comic artist who majored in English. You can read it here on Instagram under the hashtag #oscarpoppins (which was its unofficial title until now and in my mind will always be), or on Webtoon looking for Till Queendom Come.
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Cheers for Composers
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Bach: testing the camera and mic
Beethoven: with a big ass headset
Mozart: doing some fart sounds using his underarm
Schubert: with his camera off
Chopin: only his dog in front of the camera
Liszt: greeting everyone up
Schumann: persuading Schubert to turn on his camera
Mendelssohn: unknowingly with his face being zoomed in the camera
it’s the 25th my dudes
y'all know what it means
MerryScriabmas!
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because like… Martinu was very relatable. like,,
mood
same bro
‘The grave of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke in Novodevichye Cemetery in Moscow is surmounted by a stone on which is engraved a rest beneath a fermata with a triple forte noted at the bottom: A very, very loud extended silence.’
- John Biguenet, Silence (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), p.49.
The fermata suggests the indicated notation (in this case, a rest) is to continue at the discretion of the conductor. When the chosen conductor arrives, Alfred Schnittke will rise again.
that’s for orchestral pieces though, in solo pieces the performer decides how long to hold it… which means,,
the chosen conductor isn’t needed, Schnittke will rise when we need him the most
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Boulez: Fight that fucker. Normally you’d have nearly a 50/50 chance of winning, but with all the pent up hatred all of us secretly have for him, the stress hormones should make it easy for you! His music just… idk, it sounds punchable. Do. It.
Cage: Don’t do it. DON’T. Even though you’ll probably win, the emotional toll it will have on you will be humongous. You’ll slap him, he’ll cry, you’ll cry, and your life will be much sadder knowing that you made Cage cry. I suggest a friendly hug instead!
Eastman: Do NOT. You will not survive. He will roundhouse kick you, bite off your nuts, feed you to the wild animals, and make soup with your bones. Attempting to fight him is a deathwish.
Ligeti: It really depends. If you wanted to brute force through the fight, sure! Go ahead, piece of cake! Fight him! But if you wanted to tire him out first, 8/10 times Ligeti wins. Way too mentally strong for the average fighter. Full of stamina. Don’t.
Messiaen: Bird people are sensitive. He fought in a war but i don’t think that’s important in this particular case, since he is a bird person. Just punch a bird, and then punch Messiaen when he’s crying on the ground! Easy win.
Penderecki: Do not fight him. I do not have a reason for this, it just seems like a bad idea.
Rautavaara: I don’t think that it’ll be too hard to fight him. If he’s as bland of a fighter as his life was bland, punching Rautavaara is a great idea! Plus, bird person tactic applies here too, so that’s an extra perk of fighting him.
Schnittke: I mean… It’d be easy, you’d pulverize him in a couple punches, but… Why would you? Punching a paralyzed guy doesn’t sound very nice of you. Fight him, but only if you have no honor.
Xenakis: DO. NOT. I repeat, DON’T FIGHT HIM. First off, he’s a hardened war veteran, probably knows a couple ways to kill you with only his pinky finger. Secondly, he’s such a math nerd. Xenakis would probably calculate the exact velocity of your punches and dodge them in a split second. Don’t fight.
What your favorite composer says about you
Mozart: You love the “uh oh stinky” meme, youtube pranks, and/or fart jokes
Bach: You seem detached and emotionless but you’re actually super sensitive
Beethoven: Your diet consists of only coffee and your own tears
Brahms: You love the dark academia aesthetic
Pachelbel: You’re the kind of person to say you like all kinds of music, but only listen to pop
J F Rebel: You look for people who say that they like all kinds of music and show them mongolian throat singing
Bartok: Your biggest desire is to go absolutely feral and live in the woods
Kodaly: Your biggest desire is to live in a cozy cottage with like 10 kids
Dvorak: Your biggest desire is to be a bog witch and/or goblin
Berlioz: Yandere animes are your guilty pleasure
Paganini: You love showing off
Liszt: You’re probably a huge simp for him ngl
Smetana: You get attached to places more than to people
Rachmaninoff: You love suffering
Chopin: You have a huge playlist of sad sounding pieces for you to cry to
Scriabin: You used to have a Welcome to my Twisted Mind tumblr blog
Shostakovich: You probably think he’s cute and refer to him as “shosty” or “the shost”
Saint-Saens: You were always told that you’re smart as a kid, and it messed you up
Debussy: You cried during every single disney movie
Ravel: Well, you’re not a percussionist, that’s for sure (alternatively: you love water)
Satie: You used to consider yourself “not like other girls” unironically
Schoenberg: You’re either very chill or horribly elitist. No in betweens
Cage: You listen to those relaxing recordings of rain sounds
Xenakis: You are ready to fight anyone who says math is boring
Schnittke: You listened to the most unwanted song and you think it’s a bop
me: don’t feel bad if you enjoy some more popular pieces!! love hungarian dance 5? valid. love clair de lune? valid. love waltz no. 2?? very valid.
also me: i hate bolero more than ravel himself hated bolero
