#composerposting

[iamthemaestro]

a harpsichord is a type of creature

[iamthemaestro]

my most pretentious musician trait is that I get Genuinely annoyed when people use vibrato in pre-classical pieces. like I know that 90% of the time it is just a result of how people are trained and the popular repertoire in classical music spaces but for some reason my first instinct is always to take it as a PERSONAL AFFRONT

[iamthemaestro]

I feel like I have like. gamba player dysphoria

[iamthemaestro]

if there’s one thing you should know about being a music student it’s that the best part is always the dressing rooms

[iamthemaestro]

I Am Being Forced Into Historical Accuracy Against My Will

[iamthemaestro]

visited my teacher today and he let me play his $90k 1855 chanot cello and I am not the same person I was before that

[iamthemaestro]

the worst about about doing continuo is you’re ALWAYS called for the full rehearsal

[iamthemaestro]

approximately two minutes into reading this paper and

Gentlemen, is it Foppish to incorporate a Minuet in your Sequence of Well-Matched, Serious Movements?

[iamthemaestro]

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

[iamthemaestro]

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

[iamthemaestro]

if I had a nickel for every time I picked a tenor to sing one of my pieces who Looked like the hypothetical character represented in the piece I’d have two nickels. which is not a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

[iamthemaestro]

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

[iamthemaestro]

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)

[iamthemaestro]

fellow comp student friend of mine told me today that I’m his favorite composer in the conservatory???

[iamthemaestro]

I was not supposed to develop feelings for this repertoire

[iamthemaestro]

very fond of how “do you need an A?” is like the musician equivalent to asking someone if they want a drink