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beautiful take on grief by Andrew Garfield

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I’d like to think that I mostly follow these rules.

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Characteristics of Keys

C Major Completely Pure. Its character is: innocence, simplicity, naïvety, children’s talk.

C Minor Declaration of love and at the same time the lament of unhappy love. All languishing, longing, sighing of the love-sick soul lies in this key.

Db Major A leering key, degenerating into grief and rapture. It cannot laugh, but it can smile; it cannot howl, but it can at least grimace its crying.–Consequently only unusual characters and feelings can be brought out in this key.

C# Minor Penitential lamentation, intimate conversation with God, the friend and help-meet of life; sighs of disappointed friendship and love lie in its radius.

D Major The key of triumph, of Hallelujahs, of war-cries, of victory-rejoicing. Thus, the inviting symphonies, the marches, holiday songs and heaven-rejoicing choruses are set in this key.

D Minor Melancholy womanliness, the spleen and humours brood.

Eb Major

The key of love, of devotion, of intimate conversation with God.

D# Minor Feelings of the anxiety of the soul’s deepest distress, of brooding despair, of blackest depression, of the most gloomy condition of the soul. Every fear, every hesitation of the shuddering heart, breathes out of horrible D# minor. If ghosts could speak, their speech would approximate this key.

E Major Noisy shouts of joy, laughing pleasure and not yet complete, full delight lies in E Major.

E minor Naïve, womanly innocent declaration of love, lament without grumbling; sighs accompanied by few tears; this key speaks of the imminent hope of resolving in the pure happiness of C major.

F Major Complaisance & Calm.

F Minor

Deep depression, funereal lament, groans of misery and longing for the grave.

F# Major Triumph over difficulty, free sigh of relief uttered when hurdles are surmounted; echo of a soul which has fiercely struggled and finally conquered lies in all uses of this key.

F# Minor A gloomy key: it tugs at passion as a dog biting a dress. Resentment and discontent are its language.

G Major  Everything rustic, idyllic and lyrical, every calm and satisfied passion, every tender gratitude for true friendship and faithful love,–in a word every gentle and peaceful emotion of the heart is correctly expressed by this key.

G Minor  Discontent, uneasiness, worry about a failed scheme; bad-tempered gnashing of teeth; in a word: resentment and dislike.

Ab Major  Key of the grave. Death, grave, putrefaction, judgment, eternity lie in its radius.

Ab Minor  Grumbler, heart squeezed until it suffocates; wailing lament, difficult struggle; in a word, the color of this key is everything struggling with difficulty.

A Major  This key includes declarations of innocent love, satisfaction with one’s state of affairs; hope of seeing one’s beloved again when parting; youthful cheerfulness and trust in God.

A Minor  Pious womanliness and tenderness of character.

Bb Major  Cheerful love, clear conscience, hope aspiration for a better world.

Bb Minor A quaint creature, often dressed in the garment of night. It is somewhat surly and very seldom takes on a pleasant countenance. Mocking God and the world; discontented with itself and with everything; preparation for suicide sounds in this key.

B Major  Strongly coloured, announcing wild passions, composed from the most glaring colours. Anger, rage, jealousy, fury, despair and every burden of the heart lies in its sphere.

B Minor  This is as it were the key of patience, of calm awaiting ones’s fate and of submission to divine dispensation.

From Christian Schubart's Ideen zu einer Aesthetik der Tonkunst (1806) translated by Rita Steblin in A History of Key Characteristics in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries. UMI Research Press (1983).

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Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky lays flowers on Finnish composer Jean Sibelius’s grave in Järvenpää, Finland, on September 10, 1961.

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Listening to Bach is the aural equivalent of the satisfaction of sleeping in freshly washed bedsheets.

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Arvo Part - Fratres - Cello & piano

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Sergei Prokofiev playing chess by himself.

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"By the way, have you heard Rubinstein’s recording of this? It’s amazing."

"Who?"

(© don’t shoot the pianist)

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make sure to keep the corners of the lips firm

(image via Hornisten der Berliner Philharmoniker)

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I WANT THIS SHIRT SO BADLY

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Today in chorus, our teacher asked us what “molto apassionato” meant, and one of our attractive basses said “much passion” and I literally said “very love, chorus intensifies.”

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MUSICAL NOTATION, AS DESCRIBED BY CATS

(I would have liked to crop some of these gifs (like the accent ones) to make them more accurate but alas, I lack the skills.)

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A lot of people are asking about what this all means so here's a succinct version of it. http://r.hodges.home.comcast.net/~r.hodges/AMusico-theosophicPoint.htm

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Musicomics #25 - Complimizzle

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Astor Piazzolla photo by H. Carballo