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littleflowerfaith · 3 months

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Brought to tears by a Shostakovich string quartet yet again

#shostakovich #classical music #string instruments #string quartet #western art music #western art #russian composers #russian music #soviet music #Soviet composer #mine

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sivavakkiyar · 2 years

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#gustav mahler #death #western art music #at miss chemical plant wild that your turned me onto Bocklin like yesterday #arnold bocklin

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automaticfrenchhorn · 1 month

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Today's piece is for four clarinets, featuring one on bass. The harmony is mostly flavours of lydian, which I have long held an association with freezing, icy, and otherwise cold sensations. Yet, the actual chorale texture and general richness to the voicings I hope can evoke a paradoxical sense of warmth.

At measure 8, the upper clarinets seem to abandon the patterened parallelism seen before, but the music here is actually the same! Instead of moving the three voices in parallel, only the note changes are played, and the tones that are constant across neighbouring chords stay in the same part instead. The result is two wildly different expressions of the same underlying music. You can see a clear example of this in the 4th and 5th measures from the end.

#composer #composition #alternative classical music #classical music #harmony #music theory #clarinets #clarinet #bass clarinet #21st century music #original composition #western art music

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maisie-likes-pretty-things · 8 months

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One of my favorite pieces from the baroque era

#baroque music #antonin dvorak #overtures #classical music #western art music #Spotify

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the-hurdy-gurdy-man · 1 year

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I love Beethoven Piano Concerto 5 so much it's so fucking joyful and giddy and the middle movement is gorgeous and the way it leads into the third is FANTASTIC. Honestly one of my favorite piano concertos of all time idgaf if it's "overdone" I will die with the Emperor Concerto.

I highly recommend listening to it on period instruments! (Historically accurate instruments) The piano is much smaller, and it sounds much more intimate and cute(?). Additionally, the brass and timpani sound much more raw and you can hear this super easily in the horns, as they don't have valves lmao.

Links to listen below:

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#classical music #western art music #piano #Youtube

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hisiggy · 6 months

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Tammy Wynette playing guitar while getting her hair done (date unknown assuming 60s)

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zytes · 11 months

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7.15.23

#I was sooooo patient trying to capture this #even then it was dumb fucking luck #this one defo gets its own post #addition fun facts abt this night:#I left my driver's side car window down the ENTIRE storm and did not notice. nothing damaged but I have a stinky seat :(#however a stinky seat is the small humbling moment at the end of a phenomenal experience enjoying the storm from my small cave-like patio #so I sat outside enjoying the rain. me n my bong. and also a mogwai album. eyes closed. just sounds and my own deep breathing - peaceful #lighting would streak the sky and I could see the bolts through my closed eyelids - they were bright and crisp; defined. even if obscured #everything just snapped into place. the lightning and the music had moments of perceived synchronization - probably pareidolia #waves of euphoria radiating out from the base of my skull. full goosebumps. momentous feeling - I must've been manic #when I opened up my eyes the world had gone from being heavy and dark to just. red. so red. like a wildfire on the entire western horizon.#my driveway doesn't come with a glamorous view either. it was just that the entire western hemisphere was flame-red fading into eigengrau #i have those photos too lmao - will be sharing soon #my art #aesthetic #art #artwork #webcore #glitchcore #internetcore #photography #original photography #nature photography #lightning #storm #rain aesthetic #stormy aesthetic #dark aesthetic #surreal aesthetic #surrealcore

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overstimulated-autism-creature · 1 month

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skelleste · 6 months

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Honky and Tonk play honkytonk music on a honkytonk piano inside of a honkytonk saloon. Also they're gay.

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rabbits-of-negative-euphoria · 25 days

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I don’t mind taylor swift (although my mom’s convinced she’s a satanic worshiper, well according to her all the secular musicians/actors are so at least she’s consistent)

I actually liked some of the songs on TTPD but I wasn’t comfortable with the religious imagery she uses, at times it felt mocking

LOL, consistency is all I ask!

What a person is comfortable with is what they're comfortable with, and I'm certainly not advocating FOR Christians to listen to Taylor Swift--I think that's a matter of individual conviction. I'm not much of a TSwift listener for a variety of reasons not limited to her terrible worldview and frequent strong language. Nor do I think Christians should be naive when it comes to the secular, which hates God and His people.

That said, I want to invite everyone into my world of music. When I was a teenager, I created a playlist called Sense of the Divine, a phrase which I borrowed from a talk given by Vic Mignogna, but which refers to a concept I was raised from infancy to hold close: Humans are made to glorify God and enjoy Him forever, and every human knows this.

My Sense of the Divine playlist included artists such as OneRepublic, Tonight Alive, Bastille, Bear's Den, and Panic! At The Disco, with lyrics such as:

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(This is one of my favorite lines of all time.)

But eventually, I stopped adding to that playlist, because 80% of all music I now listen to contains some kind of religious language, imagery, allusions, illustrations, allegories, etc. Any time I am listening to music, I am thinking on spiritual realities: how are God and man conceptualized correctly and incorrectly in this song and by the artist? How have I encountered those misconceptions in my own life? My own heart? Where do they come from? How do they affect us? How can they be defeated? Oftentimes, I'm asking, "How can I recontextualize this line in a way that is theologically correct?"; "How does this correspond with the themes of X Story?"; "How does this correspond with the themes in my WIP?"

If this sounds tedious to you, it's just second nature to me, like breathing. From childhood, my parents always asked us spiritual & worldview questions after any secular movie we watched or book we read, and yes, many songs we heard. I guess I've always assumed all Christians engage with media this way out of necessity, the only other option being to disengage with all media not written or distributed by Angel Studios.

Am I saying all Christians are equipped to regularly take in theologically questionable or downright incorrect content? No, certainly not. The discernment we receive from Scripture is a prerequisite, and I do draw the line for myself in some instances. But I feel it would be a safe bet that what most Christians miss in overtly religious poesy, they make up for tenfold in the covert philosophical assumptions (materialism, existentialism, nihilism, gnosticism, mysticism, scientism, etc.) found everywhere else, and which are arguably much more damaging to our relationship with God.

#- HK #(anon don't think I'm directing all of this at you it is more of a general PSA)#on a secondary level listening to overtly religious ideas in music is a great reminder that Western civilization was built on Christianity #it is still inspiring art like it did Milton and Shakespeare and Dante and Steinbeck #the artists can hate us but they still have to give us air time to do it #analysis #x #Christianity

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swamp-teeth · 2 years

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— 𝙨𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜, 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙡𝙪𝙘𝙠, 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙𝙗𝙮𝙚⠀

#art #lord huron #lord huron art #fanart #lord huron fanart #music #skeleton #western #lordhuron

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gorez · 9 months

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Cowboy Bebop, 1998

Created by Hajime Yatate

Directed by Shinichirō Watanabe

Studio Sunrise, Tokyo, Japan

#Cowboy Bebop #Space Western #Neo Noir #Anime #Manga #Art #Music #Jazz #Bebop #Space Opera #Cyberpunk #Existentialism #Loneliness #Environmentalism #Capitalism #Solar System Exploration #Ship #Space #Let's Jam!

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its-unicowen-blog · 9 months

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Abbi, our Ocean from Opera Wyoming, came up with western Ride the Cyclone. Rather than taking place in Canada, they’re all darn tootin Wyominites. Here’s a quick drawing of what I think Jane Doe would look like in this setting. She’s a Rodeo Clown doll