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a harpsichord is a type of creature
#writing this post while watching seven people gently cradle a harpsichord#I don’t like seeing it on its side it looks like a wounded animal#but alas such things are necessary for that Arduous Task of Transportation#mine#composerposting
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I feel like I have like. gamba player dysphoria
#filed under: things only I have said and will ever say#I spend so much time playing stuff on cello that Should be on gamba#HOPEFULLY this will be amended soon but uhhh it’s taking longer than I thought#mine#composerposting
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I Am Being Forced Into Historical Accuracy Against My Will
#my endpin will not come out today.#it’s always been finicky because this whole instrument is finicky but I’m lucky I’m in an early music ensemble#where at least this has some merit. I guess?#mine#composerposting
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the worst about about doing continuo is you’re ALWAYS called for the full rehearsal
#don’t get me wrong I love it#but like. sigh#at least we’re rehearsing the three cello piece today <3 it’s so much fun to play#mine#composerposting
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approximately two minutes into reading this paper and
Gentlemen, is it Foppish to incorporate a Minuet in your Sequence of Well-Matched, Serious Movements?
#sometimes I feel like I use the term 'foppish' (affectionately) too liberally but no. they were really out there calling anything foppish#georgianposting#composerposting#classical music
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I miss the days when I was in middle school and it didn’t take me 1.5 years to come up with one (1) decent musical idea
#my writing was obviously not as good back then but my ideas were Way more prolific and had real potential#now I can sit around for an hour and a half and come up with nothing and I have a lesson at the end of the week#mine#composerposting
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my composition teacher got me a birthday present 🥺 it was wrapped in one of his scores which I cannot share because it Would dox me but. specialest thing ever
#he didn’t even know when my birthday was 😭 I think it was intended to be just a hypothetical future birthday gift#since we had been talking about that author recently#however he basically could not have timed it more perfectly#I like music school sometimes#mine#composerposting
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I've noticed that sometimes writing music feels like when your blorbos basically have minds of their own and in order to write them you have to sit there shaking them like WHAT DO YOU WANT except the blorbo in question is an Emin6 chord you can't seem to voice in a way that works
#adding an arpeggiation like is this it?? is this what you want?#(it was not what it wanted)#mine#composerposting#music
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I was not supposed to develop feelings for this repertoire
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very fond of how “do you need an A?” is like the musician equivalent to asking someone if they want a drink
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I hate being an early music person in a 21st century music class what do you mean I have to talk about the 2000s (I signed up for this)
#my ‘new music’ of the week has been john dowland!!!! I can’t do this#I’ll. find something#if anything this is making it very clear to me that I need to listen to more 21st century stuff#I wish I had liked the akenaten opera. unfortunately I didn’t#I have to find a soundtrack or something#mine#composerposting
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impossible to explain the feeling to non-musicians when you’re playing a vivaldi piece and the sequence comes around and everyone locks in and everything feels like it’s spinning at rapid speeds in the best way possible
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guess who somehow got roped into being principal cellist for an ensemble whose concert they are not even going to play on
#it’s me.#sighhhhh. I love my conductor and I love this ensemble it is so hard to say no to her so I just didn’t#the thing is the concert is the same fat as battle road 250. so. I will be in massachusetts that weekend lol#*day#also like. insane that I am somehow the cellist with the most seniority here considering I am not even a performance major#like ensemble-wise yeah I probably have more seniority than any other cellist because I Have The Baroque Music Special Interest and have#been a part of it basically every semester I’ve been here#but I am objectively not the Most qualified instrumentalist for the position. however it seems I am the most qualified they could get lol#but whatever she needs a principal cellist to help along the other cellist whom I have never met or played with before#and I get it it’s important to have a solid continuo section#but. I was kind of looking forward to having my sunday evenings free if I wasn’t going to play the concert at the end of it all#but whatever. whatever! I Care Too Much#mine#composerposting#< decidedly Not one of my Composer Endeavours but that’s the Music Student Tag
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genuinely kind of having a hard time coping with the fact that my cello might just have just. acquired an unfixable buzz over time that worsens arbitrarily with the weather
#it’s definitely coming from the body#luthier told me it could be anything#but also that for an instrument of this quality the procedure to fix it would be incredibly invasive and expensive and genuinely probably#not worth the money#and I can fully admit my instrument is not like The Most High Quality Instrument. but it is still probably worth ~10k today given how much#it sold for in the 90s when it was purchased#I’m the second generation to use it#and frankly I don’t know when or if I will ever have that money lying around to get a different cello of an equal or better quality#I guess I’m just lucky I’m not a performance major#because this would not be able to fly if I was#because it’s not always so bad it’s like. livable. I guess#but when it’s bad it can be quite bad. like I would not perform on it if I had the choice amounts of bad#I don’t know it’s such a shame#for all its weird quirks it really is a lovely instrument for what it is#I don’t feel the desire for another cello this one is mine and it has served me well as it served the person who played it before me#and it’s so incredibly important to me#that to see this happening kind of feels like. idk. watching someone die or something#I know it’s an insane comparison but I don’t know how else to put it#I hate that I can’t fix it and I have no idea what happened for it to even be an issue#I hate that there’s nothing I can do#i guess in the simplest terms it is a sort of grief#mine#composerposting
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someone needs to forcibly remind me that there are chord changes from the tonic that are not I-bVI and I-iv
#I literally cannot write anything without one of those changes it's getting bad#bVI is soooo sexy though#mine#composerposting#music
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(through gritted teeth) I love baroque music I love playing baroque music I can rehearse messiah again for three hours and be normal
#Testing My Patience…..#I never appreciate being in an early music ensemble more than when I’m playing in a Not early music ensemble#I’m aware like every musician is suffering this same fate though so I have no right to complain#it’s that time of year#mine#composerposting
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