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itzsana-kiddingmenow · 2 months

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Wassap😼 Just wanted to ask what’s your favorite(I yapped quite a lot so you can oppenly yap as much as you like too lol):

- Food - I LOVE ice cream. Like live love laugh ice cream. Especially the one’s that they put in a cone at some cafes. The store bought one’s are alright, but nothing hits more than a fresh cone of ice cream while walking by the beach🔥 I honestly don’t understand people that prefer to eat it from those goofy ahh cups. Like who are you, some 72 year old british woman named Karen?😭

- Animal - umm I love mostly every animal. But dogs are probably my fave. I WOULD like cats more if I wasn’t allergic. Like, I’m used to dogs and was more interested in them as a kid because I just couldn’t interact with cats without getting itchy eyes and uncontrollably sneezing😭 I was like OBSESSED with dogs as a kid. That phase lasted until I was 10-11 years old. But cats are pretty cool too😼

- Colour - oof that must be a tough one. I’m not gonna be edgy and say something like black or white🙄 My fav colour has always been yellow. Although I don’t have that many coloured clothes. My fav fit is all brown😭 But brown IS a shade of yellow so…

- Song/group - ok so I’m really proud that I’ve been getting into lesserafilm because my new friend is also a kpop fan but she prefers gg, specifically lesserafilm, so I’m happy that I finally listened to some of their songs😭 I love “Impurities” and “Guardian” (lesserafilm). My second favourite group is ofc Skz. They made a LOT of 🔥 songs, but “Charmer”, “Domino”, “Surfin’ and “Megaverse” just make my nerves tingle. Enhypen is also one of my favorite groupsss. “Mortal”, “Fate”, “Chaconne”, “One In A Billion”, “Tamed-Dashed” and like a gazillion more😭. As for non-kpop… I really like “Sunflower<Post Malone>”, “Reflections<The Neighborhood>” , “Jenny from the block<Jennifer Lopez>”, most songs from Pastel Ghost’s album “Abyss” and lots of unpopular artists. I can honestly give you my spotify or sum.

Oml I yapped so fucking much😭 Sorry. Feel free to talk even double or triple of that❤️

I LOVE IT WHEN YOU YAP IN MY INBOX ITS SO FUCKING CUTEEEE

FOOD- ahhh im indian so imma be basic and say fried rice cause even though its indo-chinese its literally everywhere in the south so I LOVE ITTTT. only if its a certain kind tho. if its all dry it literally sucks

animal- MY FAVORITE animal changes so much you have no idea but i have to go with 3. dog 2. cat 1. panda 🐼🐼🐼 ITS SO CUTEEEEE- yeah my cousin HATES CATS and when i introduced her to minho she didnt like him cause he apparently "behaved like one" LIKE WTFFFFF THATS ADORABLE

color- purple 💜

thats it...its always been purple

group/song - I USED TO BE OBSESSED WITH LITTLE MIZ BEFORE KPOP and i used to think itzy was a seven membered group for some unknown reason and because of that i was scared to stan them because i used to stan blackpink and stayc so i was A BABY KPOP FAN OKAY but i loved it afterwards. for my favorite song it has to be EASY by le sserafim like its STUCK IN MY HEAD

yay so thats more about me and even i YAPPED SO MUCH

#💗📫

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wonijinjin · 7 months

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hii ♡♡ I'd like a match with enhypen pls ^^

so my pronouns are she/her, my mbti is intp-t,, I'm quite an introvert according to my friends but I think I can talk a lot to people I'm closer with. Although I am extremely shy while getting to know someone 😭 I also am a lil moody and can get v v dramatic lmao

Fashion wise, I think im more of a coquette/cottage core girlie,, I love love love girly, feminine clothes and i LOVE makeup toooooo

I am a cat person, I have a cat that I adore so dearly. I also love sleeping and I sleep a ton. I like horror movies as well as crime ones too. I love the rain and thunder, it brings me peace. My favorite color is pink. OH AND I've been dancing since I was 4 so like 13 years now.

My favorite Enhypen songs would be:

Chaconne, Bills, Criminal Love, Fate and I also love their intros!

Thank you in advance lovely :))

hi lovely anon! thank you for requesting, i hope you will like your match partner who is none other than…

Sunoo!

When i read your request i couldn’t help but immediately think of sunoo, because i think you two would be so cute!

sunoo is honestly a king of sassiness and drama, so you two would have very funny moments every day, moreover he has an outgoing personality and he can be very talkative (especially with people whom he knows) so if you would feel a bit shy in new environments he would definitely love to help and encourage you to talk lots!

you mentioned pink as your favourite color, and sunoo is so pink coded aswell, you two would be just so adorable, with your aesthetic and style and his casual shirt/streetwear looks! honestly, everyone would be amazed by your outfits, we know he loves to dress so you could expect being styled by him many times!

he would love the fact that you have a passion for makeup, he would totally let you do whatever you want to him, also skincare!!!! you guys would have spa nights when you do skincare together.

watching horror movies would be very funny with him, he would be whining a lot, but if i remember correctly he doesn’t mind this genre so he would gladly join you! and he is a smart little bean, so criminal themed mysteries would keep him entertained every time, like i could see you and him watching one on a rainy day while cuddling.

he loves to sing, you love to dance, you already know he would be singing his heart out while you dance to it, you would have your own duo of many talents.

i truly believe you would have a great dynamic, like soulmates.

#wonijinjin #anon request #matches #anon <3 #answered #enhypen

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legitlauracoe · 4 years

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Form in Relation to Content

The Fales archive used its form of folders within boxes within collections to very exactly archive a lot of stuff. This made their online catalogue usable, as you could search up any word in the collection basically, and get results for what you wanted to see. This form emphasized time period and relationship of the artist and their work to other artists and their work since you knew almost exactly when everything was from. The very formal structure of the extremely modern architecture of NYU, the excessive packing of all the materials in order to preserve them elevated even the most mundane objects--a pair of shoes, a receipt--to the level of art, worth preserving for thousands of dollars.

The La MaMa archives used their preservation of every play La MaMa has done, and the many different set pieces and awards in such a small space to highlight how many varied people they have worked with, and who has worked for them, and doing what, and with what other famous people. It all serves to highlight how cosmopolitan La MaMa is, how much they have accomplished, and how much diversity and collaboration adds to theater. Ozzy(?) set us up to talk to us as if he were onstage, all of us behind the cabinet, or in a semicircle, or in chairs. No matter where we were, or what we were doing, he was acting and judging what we could do to contribute (e.g. “Nice voice”).

Lauren Yee uses the jukebox form of Cambodian Rock to humanize the terrible experiences of Cambodians during the Khmer Rouge and make their struggle and suffering relatable to an American audience. The jukebox form is used to lighten up the heavy mood of the piece, since it’s music and the lighting for every musical interlude is fun and flashy and colorful as opposed to the much more minimalistic and stationary lighting used for the rest of the play. The type of music (rock) made the play relatable to a western audience, who might otherwise been unsure how to react; since we have that history as well as Cambodians, we know how you’re supposed to react to that music. It also made the few instances when the actors did speak Cambodian possible to be interpreted without using subtitles. Not literal understanding of what the words meant, but the intention behind the words, and what the character was feeling, was communicated since the words were sung or accompanied by music.

Yee uses the plot of the play to structure the action in such a way that you undergo the same experience as Cambodia--not thinking the Khmer Rouge is going to take over but then they do, undergoing torture and learning how to live in such a dangerous precarious environment, finally doing anything you have to in order to save yourself. With Duch as well, not knowing who he is, finding out who he is, having him be in power, and then taking away that power by saying I’m not scared of you taking stealing something from me anymore—I have power over myself.

As they used bodies to root the action around the same characters and their interactions while while changing fluidly in time (between the 1970s and 2008) using lights, the use of music was very striking for me after reading the play without it, as a means of relating disperate parts of the play. Although the rock of course loosely relates the entire play through the tone it sets as a genre, no song is repeated (or maybe Cyclos is? but I think not super intentionally). I really noticed the Bach chaconne being repeated though. At the beginning of the play it’s on the radio. It’s subtle foreshadowing, but I think also significant as Chum reaches over and turns it off. As it gains more and more meaning coming to signify his death sentence, then his guilt for killing Leng—and then thinking back what that means to have him turn off that radio…I almost wish at the end instead of the big climax, he had gone back to the hotel room and turned the radio back on and we had just sat in silence with him while the entire song played and silence came again—maybe it’s even to him falling asleep. I thought it was a mistake to have him not face that guilt, not come to terms to it in terms of his music, when in every other way he does—telling us out loud, going to his torture scene in present lighting...

The Hal Prince exhibit used his memorabilia, and added stuff--like his fake office--to bring you into his life--like you could listen to “his” telephone!--but then use that to tell you about him/give you information--the telephone was historical information, though it was staged as a conversation where it sounded like he was talking to you. It was interactive to try to engage the audience more than simply asking them to view things behind class cases.

The Hamlet we saw relied heavily on lighting and set to comunicate its message. Set in what seemed to be the 1950s or 60s with the machine guns with lights, the military uniforms and roaring crowd of a dictator or perhaps communist leader, and the Jackie Kennedy-esque outfit of Gertrude. The set was incredible, but at the same time I felt like it was so good that it became distracting and kind of pointless at moments. As if they had the lighting and set elements just because they could rather than because it really added anything to the production, or as if they hadn’t quite thought everything through. Like the rain in the beginning--it was beautiful. It foreshadowed Ophelia drowning, establishing her as wet and vulnerable...but they didn’t act out Hamlet being freaked out by his dad asking him to kill his uncle and basically assaulting her in the rain. They didn’t have her stand there and have the lights fade as the rain continued to fall. She just ran through it and then had the scene with Polonius...wet. If you were going to try to make the point that Polonius is preying on her, that would have been compelling, but they didn’t. Also with the plastic sheet. I LOVED the plastic sheet. It was so simple and beautiful and otherworldly, very clearly signifying the veil between life and death. But then to have the ghost just duck out from underneath...so he’s alive again? And why is Hamlet alone at the end and not behind the curtain? He died too.

Their use of green at the beginning felt very calculated. I began to notice all these references to green within the text that I hadn’t before, and the different shades and vibrancy of the greens started to take on a deeper meaning for me. “While the grass grows…” Talking about his uncle as a serpent. Describing Ophelia as a green girl—that completely changed Ophelia for me somehow. It made her Hamlet’s “green light.’ In contrast, when the red came on, I wasn’t impressed. I’m pretty sure they were trying to communicate sensuousness and passion, and perhaps sin as well—i. e. evil—but I didn’t think it worked that well. It didn’t work as well with the lights, it looked gaudy, and it didn’t have the same power of insidiousness the green had for me. There were no red references in the text, and the costumes seemed to get worse--like why did Hamlet come in in a sweatshirt?

One thing I was thinking about with the costumes is perhaps it was an intentional aging forward as the weapons aged backwards, as if to try and communicate as the characters seem to be getting older what they were doing is becoming more and more primitive, since we start out with Gertrude’s blue fifties dress, and then she changes into a beige one more ‘60s, and then Hamlet comes on in the sweatshirt, while we start out with machine guns, go to knives, and end up at rapiers.

All in all I felt it used the aesthetic of that era without really dealing with any of the problems associated with it. (Perhaps this is just because the production is from Ireland and I don’t understand Irish references?) They had such a strong racial message at the beginning: a black man on a gurney surrounded by the predominantly white cast, but then had no illusion to that in the entire rest of the play. There’s such a distinction between the common people (Horatio, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and the grave diggers) and the aristocracy, their discussion within the play about the destruction of the upper class, and how death equalizes all would be incredibly easy to capitalize on, as impetus for a discussion of class struggle relating to Communism/Leninism. But it’s not like they had a USSR flag behind them. In a sene this could be trying to leave it more open to discussion, make it more of an ambiguous message but that didn’t read for me. Toxic masculinity, and gender identity is such a problem of that period as well. The problem of the ghost is basically Rebel Without a Cause, commenting on masculinity by asking the question of what is cowardice? He’s asking Hamlet to prove himself, and kill to prove this. Hamlet doesn’t want to kill someone--he just wants Ophelia. He knows if he kills Claudius, he’s not just going to be able to happily marry Ophelia. But the only way for him not to kill Claudius is if he kills himself, which if he does brands him a coward. There’s so many other parts. When Laertes is trying not to cry. When he hugs Horatio for a moment too long and says enough of this. But they didn’t choose to emphasize that either. So this Hamlet tried to use set and lights to give the audience a new way to interpret Shakespeare, but was semi successful with this form of communication.

This Hamlet emphasized religion in a way I really liked as a form of communication: ritual. I thought beginning the play with the censer in the center of the stage, starting off not experiencing the play through sight but rather smell was such a compelling choice. The special which the censor starts out in at the beginning seemingly ordained that space as holy, as afterwards all the things in the play ordained by God or in some way holy--both Hamlets, the throne--occupied that space, while the action of the flawed characters carefully avoids being there. The scene in which Hamlet doesn’t kill Claudius because he’s praying was an interesting interpretation because it’s usually just Claudius kneeling peacefully in a circle of light. This production chose to show the inner turmoil which Claudius is going through. However, I think there’s a reason that Shakespeare saved the turmoil in the dialogue for afterwards—because in the moment Hamlet doesn’t kill him, he does it because he feels very profoundly how holy that moment is. I was all ready for him to be within the special at that moment. And yet instead of using that space, and sanctifying that moment until he falls out of it, realizing it’s useless, they had him on the other side of the stage wrestling with God. It emphasized in a way I hadn’t noticed in prior productions I’ve seen how unfeeling God as a concept or a character (embodied by the priest) in Hamlet. It’s not a concept which will give the characters guidance, but one they ask for help with no hope of reply, kind of like the ghost. It tells them what to do, and then leaves them very much alone.

The most meaningful thing in the production for me was the choreography. This to me was the most unique way this play used form to communicate with the audience, because a lot of times in Shakespeare productions, the word is so revered that there is little to no movement at all. It’s like they think the closer they can come acting it out on stage to sitting there reading you the text, the truer they can be to his words, when the opposite is true! Claudius in this production is one of the best actors I’ve seen, and it’s because he didn’t sink to trying to pronounce every word like gospel. He spoke it naturally, moving around and using the words to interact with the other characters!

I never thought action could be so choreographed! The doors and the set pieces all moved/were moved so that they would continue to create strong shapes onstage, stretching the diagonals, of perfectly symmetrical cubes, or triangles in order to shape the action you saw, and the dynamic of the stage. It not only cast each scene by where the characters where in the scene in relationship to one another and how they would interact not just through dialogue but physically—like maybe their physicality would contradict what they were saying—but directed focus and created a tension I haven’t seen before through the use of stillness. One moment where Hamlet is standing still thinking and the scene is changing around him was particularly amazing for me. It was exactly how I feel like my life is right now, like everything’s just going rushing past as I stand rooted to the spot. Also little moments which gave the play so much more meaning than just the words. Hamlet’s monologue which is usually to the audience as him ranting to Ophelia. Gertrude playing out a whole scene as she realizes what Claudius has done and her son is in danger barefoot and then taking charge by literally stepping into her shoes. I’ve never seen a better example of how much more you could add to a theatrical production by adding choreography. How much was missing from the plays I’ve seen before, since without this choreography the play is only what the characters say. This adds subtext, or irony to the story, an extra layer of dimensionality which you can read in the text, but by acting out says more. I could write more...

Coal country used country music to bring people together around an issue. They used country music because it’s the people’s music, it is easy to sing so everyone can sing it without feeling ashamed or awkward, and of it’s tradition coming out of blues as well of suffering and wishing and being together. It presented a complicated topic as a common problem. Through their use of the benches, they could demonstrate to some degree the menial labor within the mines, and the rustic-ness of their surroundings. This really worked for me because the guitarist was so skilled and clearly felt so much while playing, and all the actors felt believable—they never seemed hammed up or one dimensional. They were regular everyday people just trying to understand. They used the lights behind the curving wood of the background to demonstrate the exploding tunnel, and the lights to represent the lives lost which I thought was very powerful. I thought the big central set piece wasn’t as effective, as well as most of the other lighting which seemed a bit disjointed. We brought up in discussion how much more powerful the similar moment in Cambodian Rock Band (when all the pictures of the victims light up) could have been if they could have taken two million lights and have them light up one by one.

It’s not original, many New York City based artists have said it, I think the most performative part of the City for me is the side walks--the walking signs, people starting and stopping and the flow of people passing by and through each other. It’s beautiful in an ordinary way.

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annnnnping · 7 years

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Bucket List 3.1.2

Continued @ 2017.09.21

限界なんてきっとそんなモノないまわれ左してみてもいいメチャクチャは美学だぜ!

#Not an Adult Yet#

#So Random#

JLPT - N4! 一生懸命!!! (12/03/2017)

Piano practice routine

Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature (Open Course)

Violin piano duet recording + mixing w/ DX

Get back to drawing / doodling

de Young museum

The Museum of Craft and Design @ SF

Exploratorium

Amoeba Music @ SF

SF Symphony 17-18 Season

Donate hair - wigs for kids

Rabbit / owl cafés @ Japan

Vinyl of Oasis

Half Dome Hike @ Yosemite

City Lights @ SF

Green Apple Books @ SF

Drunk Shakespeare

Graphic Design Weekly Hacks

Burning Man

Make Seafood Paella at Home

Blue Hill @ NYC

Minton's Playhouse

#Concerts

Arctic monkeys

The XX

Seattle Symphony Concert

Jason Mraz Live

Woodstock

Nashville

Oasis Live

Avril Lavigne Live

陈绮贞 Live

New Year’s Concert

Paramore Live

SXSW

陈奕迅 Live

周杰伦 Live

Pink Martini Live

Radiohead Live

Mayday @ 小巨蛋

Start a blog about music

Learn music theory

Mika Nakashima Live

関ジャニ∞ Live - Again!!! 💗

土屋アンナ Live

Write a song!!!!!

Music Library @ UW

If no (Hina’s stage play)

Okura’s stage play

Clean Bandit Live

OOR VIP Ticket

Bach Busoni Chaconne in D minor BWV 1004 Live

#Games Outdoor#

Barcelona @ Camp nou

Seahawks

Mt.Rainier

LA Galaxy (Gerrard!) :’(

Kayak

5K (Nuts!)

Warriors

Sky-diving @ San Diego

Roadtrip

Camping @ Yosemite

Yellowstone

Get back to tennis

Learn to surf

Point Reyes Bioluminescence Kayak

#Others#

Meditation practice

集英社 @ Tokyo

Sapporo

Hakone

Hokkaido

Mori Museum @ Tokyo

Osaka, Kyoto - 2nd time

The Present

Sunset Blvd

Cabaret

Alaska

Back to Seattle

New Orleans

Wizarding World of Harry Potter

Puerto Rico

#Killed :D#

Momofuku

Tim Ho Wan @ NYC

Metropolitan Museum of Art @ NYC

Secret spot :(

Vinyl of Les Misérables

Mayday Tour @ SJ

Coldplay Live (10/04/2017)!!!!!! \m/

Foreign cinema @ SF (So...good)

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema @ SF

One OK Rock Live - Again!! (08/15/2017)

Bouldering routine @ SF Dogpatch / Mission Cliffs (Although I ended up climbing @ Planet Granite…)

Living Computer Museum

Dijital fix @ SF

Speakeasy SF

Workout routine…(Tues)

Digital piano (go back to playing after a long absence) a reaaaaal one! <3

Whitney Museum of American Art @ NYC

The Book of Mormon

Sleep No More @ NYC

In Situ @ SF Moma (The forest!! Yummmm)

Driver license (2017.03.15 Woo-hoo Yaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!)

Learn Japanese (15min everyday)

One OK Rock Live

関ジャニ∞ Live

Kansai: Osaka, Kyoto

Central Library | Piano

Alpaca Farm

Henry Art

Discovery Park

Music Building

Leavenworth

Outdoor Classical Music Concert

Ugly Mug

Cafe Allegro@Ave

Make a paper billboard

Spanish (//Start learning on Duolingo)

Start blogging - post one favorite song a day

Start blogging - Connecting and reviewing theory (like the Theory Framing&Connecting Theory@501)

Chicago Art Institute

Sounders FC (//Oct 25th ticket get!)

週刊少年Jump

LA Lakers @ Staples Center

San Francisco

Learn to DRIVE

Go hiking!

Go skiing!

LP Player

Checkout Vinyl store

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#bucket list

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panterashadow · 5 years

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Pachelbel's Canon is the common name for a canon by the German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel in his Canon and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo (German: Kanon und Gigue für 3 Violinen mit Generalbaß) (PWC 37, T. 337, PC 358), sometimes referred to as Canon and Gigue in D or Canon in D. Neither the date nor the circumstances of its composition are known (suggested dates range from 1680 to 1706), and the oldest surviving manuscript copy of the piece dates from the 19th century.

Pachelbel's Canon, like his other works, although popular during his lifetime, went out of style, and remained in obscurity for centuries. A 1968 arrangement and recording of it by the Jean-François Paillard chamber orchestra gained popularity over the next decade, and in the 1970s the piece began to be recorded by many ensembles; by the early 1980s its presence as background music was deemed inescapable..From the 1970s to the early 2000s, elements of the piece, especially its chord progression, were used in a variety of pop songs. Since the 1980s, it has also been used frequently in weddings and funeral ceremonies in the Western world.

The canon was originally scored for three violins and basso continuo and paired with a gigue. Both movements are in the key of D major. Although a true canon at the unison in three parts, it also has elements of a chaconne.

In his lifetime, Johann Pachelbel was renowned for his organ and other keyboard music, whereas today he is also recognized as an important composer of church and chamber music. Little of his chamber music survives, however. Only Musikalische Ergötzung—a collection of partitas published during Pachelbel's lifetime—is known, apart from a few isolated pieces in manuscripts. The Canon and Gigue in D major is one such piece. A single 19th-century manuscript copy of them survives, Mus.MS 16481/8 in the Berlin State Library. It contains two more chamber suites. Another copy, previously in Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, is now lost

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sk19972 · 7 years

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DORIAN GRAY - An Opera (Prologue)

http://tricostylistpathophobic.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-picture-of-dorian-gray-from.html?m=1

The Picture of Dorian Gray – From the Composer’s Perspective

https://youtu.be/83upL-GUriU

This article was first published in The Wolfian, “a magazine dedicated to delivering political articles on liberalism and social democracy, as well as philosophical, constitutional and intellectual discussion.” The Wolfian is readily available online from both Amazon and iTunes.

The issue of setting a story well-known by the general public to music, especially writing an opera based on such a story, is one of distilling from the text the essence that must be encapsulated by the music, without throwing out the details that make the tale so particular to other readers. This issue is doubled in the case of Oscar Wilde’s novella The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), for this work, more so than any of his other plays and books, is an odd synthesis of philosophy, somewhat dark comedy, and gothic horror. The challenge is therefore to write music that thus evokes each strand of Wilde’s writing, be it a “difficult” or rhythmically, harmonically or melodically complex philosophical monologue, as I have found most of the music of the now complete Prologue seems to be; or bleak, aggressive and turbulent passages suggestive of gothic horror music; or even lush, or otherwise light and charming comic music – without any single one of these strands overpowering the general effect of the music. My solution, as much as I might say I have one, is really two-fold: firstly, to find inspiration in music of previous generations, in the passacaglias of Henry Purcell, Georg Friedrich Handel’s arias, Benjamin Britten, Claude Debussy and Richard Wagner’s operas, and extract some understanding from their works as to precisely how they fit these particular strands of literature combined by Wilde; and secondly, by following Wilde’s text, as it is a guide in itself as to how to set the text – Wilde perfectly balanced philosophy, comedy, and horror in his novella, who am I to try and change this balance?

As a composer who also sings, I find that much of my composition is influenced by the composers I regularly find myself singing. In Britain, most young, classical singers are taught to sing using repertoire from German Lieder and English song, that is, distinctly avoiding opera until the voice has suitably developed the much larger volume that is usually required to sing with the large orchestras utilised by Wagner, Verdi and Puccini. Therefore, I should say that my biggest influence, certainly in the instrumentation of this work, is from earlier baroque and classical-era orchestration, with reduced numbers. This is in order to allow singers with lighter voices to be able to sing this music, allowing for greater choice in the quality of acting, and the delivery of Wilde’s excellent text to the audience - This is also somewhat inspired by the concept of a chamber-opera, typified by Britten’s opera The Rape of Lucretia (1946), which was scored for a drastically reduced orchestra, and although I use a few more instruments than Britten in Dorian Gray, keep an eye out, Britten will be littered all over this article. In the case of Dorian Gray, I estimate that the orchestra may consist of around 30 players, That is, single wind (with a basset horn or bass clarinet taking the place of the bassoons for a rounder, warmer sound) 4 trumpets, 2 horns, 4 trombones, a harp and off-stage piano, and reduced strings, without double-basses, compared to the usual 70-100 players in a symphony orchestra. With a cast of 8, plus a small chorus of maybe 8 or 12 singers, a total of 50-odd performers in an opera is much lower, and therefore more intimate, than in the colossal cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen (1876) by Wagner, with 34 soloists, a massed chorus, a full symphony orchestra with an enlarged brass section, which requires the soloists to have truly gargantuan voices and vocal stamina.

However, that is not to say that I have entirely disregarded Wagner’s music as an influence – indeed, he is probably one of the biggest influence on Western Classical music since Beethoven’s epoch-marking innovations in the early 19th century. His use of leitmotif (a small musical phrase, rhythm or progression associated with an idea or character, developed primarily by Wagner in Der Ring des Nibelungen and his later operas) from Der Ring onwards has influenced so many that his reach is practically inescapable. I certainly haven’t attempted to avoid it, particularly in the Prologue to Dorian Gray. There are several ideas that one might point to as being leitmotifs, but the one I believe is the best example, first occurs in b.81 of the Prologue (c.03:50), and is an idea that I link either with Art as an idea, or the Picture, or directly with Dorian himself. The rise and tumbling fall of the flute melody (the top line) is actually accompanied by possibly two other ideas that could be regarded as leitmotifs. Firstly, the demi-semi-quaver run up to the zenith of the flute melody is an effect I have used frequently in the prologue to indicate an idea, either musical or philosophical, rising to the fore in someone’s mind (It also creates a graceful way to blossom into a new melody). Moreover, the accompanying rising and falling quavers on the stave below (here, the clarinet) is used as an accompanying figure often when discussing aesthetics, and is not simply an accompanying figure for the flute melody. Thus, I have tried to represent the text (Here, “Why he is a Narcissus” and then, “But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins…”) through the music by the use of motivic writing.

This Prologue is based on the first two chapters of Wilde’s novella, which mostly consists of a discussion of the nature of art between Sir Henry Wotton (baritone) and the painter Basil Hallward (tenor), followed by the arrival of Dorian himself (counter-tenor) and Sir Henry’s first monologue about youth, beauty and hedonism. Such philosophy requires textures that enhance the conveyance of the text; for this, I looked at the vocal music of Benjamin Britten, particularly his opera Billy Budd (1951). Britten makes use of heterophony (several instruments performing the same general melody, with rhythmic differences, ornamentation and decoration) to strengthen the vocal line frequently in this work, such as in John Claggart’s monologue http://tricostylistpathophobic.blogspot.com/2015/01/youtube-wednesday-reviewing-christmas.html, in which the villain declares his lecherous hatred for the hero, Billy. The Trombones are clearly playing mostly the same notes as the villain sings, however, they often do not coincide. Similarly, I used the effect to create a strength underneath the soloist, by accompanying the baritone with the French horn, whilst the viola and clarinet play a rolling triplet accompanying figure, as he sings about the sorrows of growing old, (c.29:15). This can, however, when combined with slower accompanying figures, create a slow, dragging and turgid effect. This is suitable when used with the hedonistic, jaded Lord Henry, but is not at all suitable for the more pure and idealistic artist Basil. To find a suitable mood for Basil’s monologues, I drew inspiration from a romance from Anton Rubinstein’s under-appreciated opera The Demon (1871). Rubinstein utilized a fast, pulsing semi-quaver triplet motif to accompany a promise from the Byronic demon to his lover that she will be “queen of the universe” (https://youtu.be/IIjpB3QuQZI?t=15) With Basil’s monologue, I used full wind and strings to accompany the tenor, with an accompanying melody plucked on the 1st and 2nd violins, as he explains the inescapable effect that Dorian has had on his art – he is everywhere, all pervading. He can be found in certain colours, the curves of certain lines. He is all Basil’s art.

The final notable inspiration I drew on in the Prologue is from Henry Purcell, the English baroque composer, with influences (again) upon Benjamin Britten. The influence manifests itself in Dorian’s lament over the Picture, in which he mourns the fact that (for the moment) the portrait will not age, whilst he, the sitter, will; the portrait will always remind him of his mortality. I set this to a passacaglia (an originally Spanish dance form, which involves a constant bass ostinato, and is usually in 3-time), because, as in many baroque pieces it creates a sense of tragedy through the constant bass line, but the ever developing harmonies over the top. This was used notably by Purcell, but fell out of fashion somewhat in the classical era. It was finally revisited by Britten in the 20th century, particularly when he used one in his opera Peter Grimes (1945) - other composers of the 20th century are also known for their use of passacaglias, among them Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern and Dmitri Shostakovich, but (as usual) Britten was my touch-stone. My passacaglia, (c.32:25), is somewhat irregular, though, as it is in 4-time rather than the more usual 3-time, and, unlike most baroque passacaglias, it is a vocal piece, whereas most were purely instrumental. In this respect it resembles the famous chaconne “When I am laid in earth” from Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas (c. 1687), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGQq3HcOB0Y even down to the unequal phrase lengths between the voice and the orchestra.

Hopefully this little piece should give any listener to my work a guide to the influences present in the music, and demonstrate the attempts made to balance the three strands of Wilde’s writing. On that note, I hope it serves to illustrate that, as Wilde himself is my guide to the structure of the music here, much more of the music is philosophical for most of the work so far. Going forward, I worry that this creates a rather slow burning Prologue, and therefore the music of the next few scenes must be significantly more varied, be it through the charm of Dorian’s visit to Lord Henry’s town-house, or the farce that is the performance of Romeo and Juliet, with the bombastic, middle-aged Romeo, a wooden, distracted Juliet and a ridiculing, outraged audience.

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My Top 50 K-Pop Songs of 2016

I know it’s now officially 2017 & I’m late with this list.... but here are my favorite k-pop songs released this past 2016! No artist can appear more than once (although plenty could have tbh.) My second favorites can be found here - thank you Shaun @monstasx for that tag! These songs are listed in chronological order. A playlist form can be found here if you’d rather see them that way. My top ten (five male artist & five female artist) have been bolded. Cheers to a new year of good music!!

Lucky J - No Love NiiHWA - Say Yes Ryeowook - The Little Prince Winner - Baby Baby 4Minute - Hate AOA Cream - I'm Jelly Baby B.A.P - Feel So Good Ladies' Code - Chaconne KNK - Knock Got7 - Beggin' On My Knees (not included in the playlist due to copyright :/) Amber - Borders Nafla - Dope Boy Hyosung - Find Me Oh My Girl - Liar Liar Boys' Republic - Get Down History - Queen Assbrass & Taewan - Magic N-Sonic - Excalibur Twice - Cheer Up BTS - Save Me R3hab, Amber, Luna - Wave AOA - Good Luck Jonghyun - White T-Shirt Monsta X - All In Xia - Rock the World Luna - Free Somebody U-Kiss - Stalker EXO - Monster Jung Jin Woon - Will (ft. Tiger JK) Sonamoo - I Like U Too Much NCT 127 - Paradise BoA & Beenzino - No Matter What Beast - Ribbon Eric Nam - Can't Help Myself FT Island - Take Me Now Inx - Alright Jun.K - Think About You J-Min - Ready For Your Love Agust D - The Last NCT Dream - Chewing Gum Hitchhiker - $10 MOBB - Hit Me Nu'est - Love Paint Ailee - Home Lay - What U Need? VIXX - Desperate Berry Good - Don't Believe Bastarz - Make It Rain Shinee - Tell Me What To Do Seventeen - Highlight

#i hope you like these!!#^.^#happy new year!!#text #mine #fave songs of 2016

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Bucket List 3.1.3

Continued @ 2018.04.01. This must be a joke.

限界なんてきっとそんなモノないまわれ左してみてもいいメチャクチャは美学だぜ!

#Not an Adult Yet#

#So Random#

JLPT - N2! 一生懸命!!!! ... N4不合格 (T ^ T) 悔しい!!

Piano practice routine

Climb outdoors

REI program (09/22/2018. Castle Rock)

Pinnacles camp

Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature (Open Course)

Violin piano duet recording + mixing w/ DX

Get back to drawing / doodling

The Museum of Craft and Design @ SF

Amoeba Music @ SF

SF Symphony 17-18 Season

Donate hair - wigs for kids

Rabbit / owl cafés @ Japan

Vinyl of Oasis

Half Dome Hike @ Yosemite

City Lights @ SF

Green Apple Books @ SF

Drunk Shakespeare

Graphic Design Weekly Hacks

Burning Man

Make Seafood Paella at Home

Blue Hill @ NYC

Minton’s Playhouse

Baking & Pastry school

Banff Mountain Film

Read books in a coffee shop (Routine!)

Coffee brewing / Latte 101 class

Pottery class

#Concerts Music Festivals

Arctic Monkeys Live (10/21/2018)

関ジャニ∞ Live (08/23/2018, 08/26/2018)

ZHU Live (09/08/2018)

Jason Mraz Live (09/13/2018)

The XX

Mashmallo

Seattle Symphony Concert

Woodstock

EDC

Coachella

Oasis Live

Avril Lavigne Live

陈绮贞 Live

New Year’s Concert

Paramore Live

SXSW

陈奕迅 Live

周杰伦 Live

Pink Martini Live

Radiohead Live

Mayday @ 小巨蛋

Start a blog about music

Learn music theory

Mika Nakashima Live

土屋アンナ Live

Write a song!!!!!

Music Library @ UW

If no (Hina’s stage play)

Okura’s stage play

Clean Bandit Live

OOR VIP Ticket

Bach Busoni Chaconne in D minor BWV 1004 Live

#Games Outdoors

Barcelona @ Camp nou

US Open

Seahawks

Mt.Rainier

LA Galaxy (Gerrard!) :’(

Kayak

5K (Nuts!)

Warriors

Sky-diving @ San Diego

Roadtrip

Camping @ Yosemite

Yellowstone

Get back to tennis

Learn to surf

Point Reyes Bioluminescence Kayak

Warriors

#Others

Meditation practice

集英社 @ Tokyo

Sapporo

Hakone

Hokkaido

Mori Museum @ Tokyo

Osaka, Kyoto - 2nd time

The Present

Sunset Blvd

Alaska

Back to Seattle

New Orleans

Wizarding World of Harry Potter

Puerto Rico

Nashville

New Mexico

Thailand

Iceland

Barcelona

#Killed :D#

Glass Animal (@Stanford. 05/19/2018)

de Young museum

Exploratorium

Cabaret (Bravo!!!)

Momofuku

Tim Ho Wan @ NYC

Metropolitan Museum of Art @ NYC

Secret spot :(

Vinyl of Les Misérables

Mayday Tour @ SJ

Coldplay Live (10/04/2017)!!!!!! \m/

Foreign cinema @ SF (So…good)

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema @ SF

One OK Rock Live - Again!! (08/15/2017)

Bouldering routine @ SF Dogpatch / Mission Cliffs (Although I ended up climbing @ Planet Granite…)

Living Computer Museum

Dijital fix @ SF

Speakeasy SF

Workout routine…(Tues)

Digital piano (go back to playing after a long absence) a reaaaaal one! <3

Whitney Museum of American Art @ NYC

The Book of Mormon

Sleep No More @ NYC

In Situ @ SF Moma (The forest!! Yummmm)

Driver license (2017.03.15 Woo-hoo Yaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!)

Learn Japanese (15min everyday)

One OK Rock Live

関ジャニ∞ Live

Kansai: Osaka, Kyoto

Central Library | Piano

Alpaca Farm

Henry Art

Discovery Park

Music Building

Leavenworth

Outdoor Classical Music Concert

Ugly Mug

Cafe Allegro@Ave

Make a paper billboard

Spanish (//Start learning on Duolingo)

Start blogging - post one favorite song a day

Start blogging - Connecting and reviewing theory (like the Theory Framing&Connecting Theory@501)

Chicago Art Institute

Sounders FC (//Oct 25th ticket get!)

週刊少年Jump

LA Lakers @ Staples Center

San Francisco

Learn to DRIVE

Go hiking!

Go skiing!

LP Player

Checkout Vinyl store

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annnnnping · 6 years

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Bucket List 3.1.4

Continued @ 2018.08.12. This must be a joke.

限界なんてきっとそんなモノないまわれ左してみてもいいメチャクチャは美学だぜ!

#Not an Adult Yet#

#So Random#

Pinnacles camp

#Concerts Music Festivals

The XX

Mashmallo

Seattle Symphony Concert

Woodstock

EDC (Maybe)?

Coachella

Oasis Live

Avril Lavigne Live

陈绮贞 Live

New Year’s Concert

Paramore Live

SXSW

陈奕迅 Live

周杰伦 Live

Pink Martini Live

Radiohead Live

Mayday @ 小巨蛋

Start a blog about music

Learn music theory

Mika Nakashima Live

土屋アンナ Live

Write a song!!!!!

Music Library @ UW

If no (Hina’s stage play) DVD!!

Okura’s stage play

Clean Bandit Live

OOR VIP Ticket

Bach Busoni Chaconne in D minor BWV 1004 Live

#Games Outdoors

Barcelona @ Camp nou

US Open

Seahawks

Mt.Rainier

LA Galaxy (Gerrard!) :’(

Kayak

5K (Nuts!)

Warriors Game

Sky-diving @ San Diego

Roadtrip 66

Camping @ Yosemite

Get back to tennis

Learn to surf

Point Reyes Bioluminescence Kayak

Warriors

Banff National Park

Yellowstone National Park

#Others

Meditation practice

集英社 @ Tokyo

Sapporo

Hakone

Hokkaido

Mori Museum @ Tokyo

The Present

Sunset Blvd

Alaska

Back to Seattle

New Orleans

Wizarding World of Harry Potter

Puerto Rico

Nashville

New Mexico

Thailand

Iceland

#Killed :D#

Arctic Monkeys Live (10/21/2018)

REI program (09/22/2018. Castle Rock)

Jason Mraz Live (09/13/2018)

ZHU Live (09/08/2018)

Crater Lake (09/03/2018)

関ジャニ∞ Live (08/23/2018, 08/26/2018)

Osaka, Kyoto - 2nd time

Glass Animal (@Stanford. 05/19/2018)

de Young museum

Exploratorium

Cabaret (Bravo!!!)

Momofuku

Tim Ho Wan @ NYC

Metropolitan Museum of Art @ NYC

Secret spot :(

Vinyl of Les Misérables

Mayday Tour @ SJ

Coldplay Live (10/04/2017)!!!!!! \m/

Foreign cinema @ SF (So…good)

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema @ SF

One OK Rock Live - Again!! (08/15/2017)

Bouldering routine @ SF Dogpatch / Mission Cliffs (Although I ended up climbing @ Planet Granite…)

Living Computer Museum

Dijital fix @ SF

Speakeasy SF

Workout routine…(Tues)

Digital piano (go back to playing after a long absence) a reaaaaal one! <3

Whitney Museum of American Art @ NYC

The Book of Mormon

Sleep No More @ NYC

In Situ @ SF Moma (The forest!! Yummmm)

Driver license (2017.03.15 Woo-hoo Yaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!)

Learn Japanese (15min everyday)

One OK Rock Live

関ジャニ∞ Live

Kansai: Osaka, Kyoto

Central Library | Piano

Alpaca Farm

Henry Art

Discovery Park

Music Building

Leavenworth

Outdoor Classical Music Concert

Ugly Mug

Cafe Allegro@Ave

Make a paper billboard

Spanish (//Start learning on Duolingo)

Start blogging - post one favorite song a day

Start blogging - Connecting and reviewing theory (like the Theory Framing&Connecting Theory@501)

Chicago Art Institute

Sounders FC (//Oct 25th ticket get!)

週刊少年Jump

LA Lakers @ Staples Center

San Francisco

Learn to DRIVE

Go hiking!

Go skiing!

LP Player

Checkout Vinyl store

頑張って!

#randomshit

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