#non classical music

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Started a new book series, and has been a journey...an Odyssey, if you will.

[sexygaywizard]

fwiw kendrick lamar is the only rap artist to have ever won a pulitzer so if you're like "idk who that is!" like go listen to To Pimp A Butterfly and educate yourself idk

[kingofthewilderwest]

The thing with The Greats in classical music is, upon listening to their pieces, you feel why they're The Greats. The music is so high quality it pulls you in more than any composer you've met - and you've met BADASSES. This, this, this, when you hear this, it distinguishes itself as its own class. Almost immediately, you're consumed. On its own, composing music isn't hard. On its own, hearing the works of other colleagues is informative and educational but not intimidating. On its own, personal growth in composing is rewarding and tenable. And you start to think, "Hey, not bad!" But when you sit down and listen to Bach, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Sibelius, Dvořák, Rachmaninoff, in 20 seconds, you're humbled beyond belief. I could not do this. You are small. In a minute: This is art. This is art. This is art. And you're five minutes in, and the brilliance and maturity and nuance and intricacy and variety of ideas and flow and flawless execution, and you think, I REALLY could not do this. Eight minutes in, and it's almost unbearably incredible. And you look over the breadth of their repertoire. And he did it over and over and over and over again, at THIS level. You are nothing, you are dust. It is emotionally overwhelming. You are loomed over by a class of giants. It could be I chords and V chords and IV chords like everyone else, and you're basking at the toe of the tallest Monuments in the world. How could we make these instruments? How could we assemble these sounds? How could we evoke soul so perfectly but so perfectly human? It is good to feel humbled. It is good to bask in this art. We are blessed we live at a time where these pieces have been written and can be enjoyed at the ready. We are blessed to live in a time where we access this much classical music at our finger tips and at our ear drums. We are blessed we can freely - freely, without cost - access scores and recordings. This isn't some perverted idea of elitism. This is grateful awe. Guys, we get to listen to music. We have access to music. What a wonderful world we live in, with talented humans, the endless flowing of ideas, and art that's stood the test of time.

[another-little-hippie]

Robert gets silly, gets nervous, then keeps talking like the pro that he is:

[ignatiusteto]

i think sacred music in the kryn dynasty would be very cyclical and repetitive in form to symbolize the idea that life is a continuous thing (at least those who are consecuted right right) and is a cycle across lifetimes and yeah

[pizzalordmarv]

doing a lil poll for fun because i like polls. below the break is a couple of popular songs from each band if it helps you to choose

(just realizing I forgot to put prism here. fuck)

POPULAR SONGS FROM EACH BAND

Rush - Tom Sawyer, Subdivisions, Fly By Night, Closer to the Heart, Limelight, The Spirit of Radio, Freewill, and Working Man.

Triumph - Somebody’s Out There, Lay It On the Line, Magic Power, and Follow Your Heart.

Loverboy - Working for the Weekend, Lovin’ Every Minute Of It, The Kid Is Hot Tonite, Turn Me Loose, Hot Girls In Love, and Queen Of the Broken Hearts.

Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns, Go For Soda, Rock ‘N’ Roll Duty, I Am A Wild Party, All We Are, and Lager and Ale.

April Wine - You Could Have Been a Lady, Just Between You and Me, Sign of the Gypsy Queen, Bad Side of the Moon, Oowatanite, Tonite Is a Wonderful Time to Fall In Love, and Say Hello.

Trooper - We’re Here For a Good Time (Not a Long Time), Raise a Little Hell, The Boys In the Bright White Sportscar, General Hand Grenade, Santa Maria, and Two For the Show.

Honeymoon Suite - Stay In the Light, Feel It Again, Burning in Love, Wave Babies, and New Girl Now.

Gowan - (You’re A) Strange Animal, A Criminal Mind, and Moonlights Desires (I’m sorry I don’t know a good amount of Gowan songs).

Platinum Blonde - Standing in the Dark, Doesn’t Really Matter, Crying Over You, Not in Love, Situation Critical, and Somebody Somewhere.

The Guess Who - These Eyes, American Woman, No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature, No Time, Hand Me Down World, and Share the Land.

Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin’ Care of Business, Hey You, Let it Ride, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, and Roll on Down the Highway.

[heldhram]

I'm working on my annual study report now (this one's on Schizophrenia, a favourite topic of mine) and this is my background music

Queen

[fairyhaos]

Hi Yena! How are you?? Can I have some orchestral music recs please? I've been wanting to get listen to more classic music, but I have no idea where to start. I hope your exams (and revision!) goes well!!

hi oh my god!!!!!! id love to give you orchestral recs!!!!!! it really depends on ur music taste tbh but classical music is sooo so versatile so im gonna go thru a list of semi popular pieces and just give a few words-vibe explanation of them too

Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 - 20th cent dramatic romance movie soundtrack (specifically focused in the 3rd mvt)

Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite - exhilarating storytelling with dramatic climax

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 - the epitome of 18th century stuffy wigs and aristocratic balls

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor - the dark theme of the anti-hero in a vigilante/dystopian movie

Beethoven Spring Sonata - if the imagery of petals floating down a fast-flowing stream was fit into a melody

Elgar Salut d'Amor - cream silk and pink ribbons in pigtails

Beethoven Romance No. 2 - swiss royalty ballroom dancing music. specifically switzerland, for reasons unknown to my brain

Monti Czardas - if spanish yearning was a violin piece

Dvorak Serenade for Strings in E Major - imagine the colour dark yellow spinning around super fast amongst the falling autumn leaves

if anyone wants more orchestral music recs then I'm always happy to provide!!!!! just send in an ask w the vibes of music that you'll want and im do my best to find something 😎

[chevvy-yates]

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'Thunder and lightning Heading your way Ride the rainbow Crack the sky

Stormbringer coming Time to die' — Stormbringer by Deep Purple

In other words:

'You've been thunderstruck' —Thunderstruck by AC/DC

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Thyjs' theme playlist.

FIRST:

Yup! That's right – Thyjs is going to electrify y'all.

My original thought was that I've wanted to create a little playlist with thunder/storm/electro lyrics but then I stumbled over these songs in the list up there (first one shook me the most) and so I threw my original idea into the storm. Spending like two months on it now how to write down what I feel or see when I listen to this selection tied to Thyjs. So, here's his entire Playlist now: basically Introduction and fight theme songs as well as a calm one — like I did with V before but different.

Storm If I had to choose just one song for him, this one would be it. This awesome instrumental song is the ultimate standalone theme song for Thyjs. Like his goddamn introduction in a movie appearance. When I listened to it for the first time it just struck me like one of his lightning strikes. It is the only song that can be tied to the cyberpunk music genre since every song in the list is more classical soundtrack-ish (he needs that epicness. He's a godverdomme soldier). Back to the song: It sounds tempting right from the start with that beat giving you an overall Cyberpunk feeling at first, making you somehow feel alarmed because of the electronic sound. The air around you may feel electrified and you know something is coming. Then suddenly there is that melodic part setting in with those classical elements that literally screams 'Thyjs' to me. When I look at him I see; He's beauty, he is grace — but coming as an all through soldier package. No one would probably expect it but Thyjs does love to listen to classical music (piano, violin/cello and entire orchestra) of various known artists as well that is why it brought me on the way to look for songs like these in the list. It calms him down, especially after a long and hard mission. To me he feels unapproachable, like he's not from this world at all, yet he is. Wherever he goes in uniform or military gear, people will look at him with a certain respect. You're immediately drawn into admiring him because you probably ain't seen such a pale soldier like him ever before. He can make you feel like time stopped only to let you know with a loud thundering bang that everything you see is real and time is still running. That is when that part that sounds electrifying somewhere near the middle of that song, starts right out of nowhere. Sir! I'm so sold to it right now. I have to admit, the song is fairly long at 7 min, yet I recommend listening to it completely but the important parts really are the start and the middle.

Into the Storm is literally Thyjs getting ready for the battle that lies before him. Ride right into the storm, full force. It is like he can feel a storm is coming, with the storm being the enemies. You gotta know, Thyjs is a soldier to the bone. He devoted his entire life to it, trained as soon as he was old enough for it, to serve his country and Benelux Union. He's heroic in his own way. And that song does him justice.

I'm Electro A short song that strikes you after just a few seconds — the hard way. It represents that you gotta show some respect towards him if you do not behave correctly. He'll immediately put you back into your place where you belong, using his voice and electro shock (if you dare to enter his comfort zone) — like AC/CD would say: in the 'You've been thunderstruck' way (it's in fact exactly what happened to Ryder meeting Thyjs for the first time). Thyjs is capable of making use of electricity that is fed into his left arm, therefore also the glowing (Hanako) cyberware. The brighter it glows the more electricity Thyjs has to make use of. He already knew very early he was kind of immune to electricity after he grabbed an electrified fence feeling literally nothing. Once he lost his left forearm during a heavy battle with drones he decided to get himself some limb replacement that could make use of electricity since he literally survived a lightning strike as well on the battlefield during a thunderstorm, but more of that I'll keep for another time. That battle also gave him his nickname 'Storm', which he also uses as a code name. He can power up from any source that is running with electricity — Night City is full of it. He will give Arki and Ryder a boost if they need some as well. Ry gets himself Shock-n-Awe installed after having met his future lover for the first time. Thyjs even suggested the team to wear mods in their clothing gear if they do not want additional cyberware to their body because lightning can't be really controlled. It will always spread over to the next best source.

Storm Another Storm song (I wanted to decide for one of them but they are both so awesome I have to include them both). This one here seems to be a re-interpretation of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" and this song hits differently: Thyjs has Sandevistan — the Militech 'Apogee' Sandevistan Mk. V of course. So he's fast. Like lightning. The fast stringed instruments represent his fast acting and when that thunder sets in right at the start he vanishes into air. The only time you'll see him is before he starts and when he ends it, with the ladder it is already too late for you. The highlights in the song can stand for that if you are able to watch him in action you will be seeing him in between, avoiding incoming their enemies that are fast as well, sometimes he may even look gracefully, appearing for a moment, time pausing for max 3 seconds until he vanishes again just to reappear in a different place again, slaying his enemies one after another. You can hear exactly 3x a loud bang in that song around 2 min in — this is him starting with Sandevistan going for the enemy, then disappears, leaving only electricity behind, and lastly he shows up again, right in front of you with his Constitutional Arms M2038 Tactician 'The Headsman' Power Shotgun –BANG– three enemies on the ground, limbs missing, or even their heads exploded. He's able to load his shotgun within his used Sandevistan time but he often makes use of his toxic knife as well dealing severe damage to the enemy who will die because of poison going into their bloodstream.

Tempest It's like that epic battle song everyone likes and may even get goosebumps from. It is fast paced, tearing forward, to set one strike after another. See it as the last boss battle. The final big one. Before everything is finally done. Battle won, for Thyjs and his squad (when he was still serving) or the team he joins shortly after the incident out in the badlands that led to his whole squad being blown up and him being the only survivor. If you can't imagine Thyjs' fight style in some epic battle try imagine a combination of playing battlefield V and e.g. watching Final Fantasy Kings Glaive. Thyjs moves similar like Nyx Ulric, the warps with the weapons I mean, only he does not warp, he's just super fast with his Sandevistan but also leaving lightning behind.

Van Gogh's White Roses Calm moments incoming. Thyjs loves to play piano. The pretty tunes calm him down as he plays them, or even just listens to them. It is his way to chill and he could do it all day long appreciating the calm moments of his live thrice as much because as a soldier he is mostly on high alert (even if it doesn't look like it) and always prepared that every day could be his last. So better especially appreciate the little things in live and things that he loves: music, art, flowers and his new gained friends and most of all; time with his love: Ryder. The moment I decided Thyjs is Dutch was when I added the ears cyberware to him. Idk I just got reminded of Van Gogh in that moment. So Thyjs went to be Dutch, he loves Impressionism and is ofc an admirer of Van Gogh's art (I might do an extra post for that as well some time why I made Thyjs like Van Gogh).

[shoechoe]

playing rap/hip-hop for family members who like making fun of your music taste and are that "i hate rap i don't consider it real music" type really spotlights how much they do not know anything about or listen to rap and their "criticisms" for it are a bunch of garbage that they wouldn't say about any other music genre

[ammyamarant]

Anytime I see a character who likes classical or performs classical music hating rock/metal, or vice versa, I laugh because all of the above genres have more in common than you think. "Opera singer/classical composer listens to metal and likes it" is a big reaction genre for this reason, and seriously, they spend a lot of time comparing what the song has to classical compositions and it's a lot.

[monstersandmaw]

I feel like you'll know the answer to this ~ what is that classical music song that gets faster and faster and more chaotic as it goes on, and it's got like violins and it starts out real slow and picks up speed??? It's used a bunch of memes and shit and it was in the video with that dried noodle guy chat I think??????

Oh Anon, you picked the right nerd for this. I know exactly which piece you're talking about. It's 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' by Grieg, from his Peer Gynt suite: (your description was spot on and also perfectly chaotic, I love it)

[kingofthewilderwest]

Classical music practice time

Expectation: Full concert in your bedroom Reality: Practicing an F major scale for an hour

[wolfstarshipping]

Ullswater (30.973 words) by @eyra

Rating: Mature

university AU, musician AU, muggle AU

Summary:

He remembers when he first heard him, and how he'd been quite unable to do much of anything other than sit there in the stalls in awe as he watched the choir's rehearsal play out, a fourth year pianist accompanying a devastating solo from Remus that had every student and teacher holding their breath. The sheer depth of it; the way it seemed to reverberate through the ancient boards of the very stage itself, from somewhere primal and secret inside him. And how it seemed to take him no effort whatsoever, and how his presence felt no less monumental for it.

A winter term at The Ullswater Institute: late-night rehearsals, dormitory karaoke, and secrets, kept in the labyrinthine corridors underneath the cavernous, frescoed auditorium.

Comment:

I'm guessing (or hoping) that most people know about this wonderful fic already anyways but I couldn't not include it in this month's list now that it's completed. It's beautifully written, I love the way eyra writes anyways, but the music elements made this fic extra special for me, I love everything about it and highly recommend everyone read this!

[thebrandywine]

Nyohoho~ 78 + Chreon for the drabble meme? :3

Starman by Garbage!

Leon is laughing, loud and happy. The two of them are swinging around on the makeshift dance floor, alternating between maintaining distance and holding each other close as they sway. There's a cool breeze and everyone else has gone home, just the two of them left as they dance alone under the blooming stars of late April. It was a hell of a wedding. Everyone they love had been there, even those satellite relations that they see all too rarely. There had been tears of joy from the guests, laughter, semi-drunken toasts into a squealing, rented microphone that none of them had really known how to work. Now, though, it's just them.

Chris pulls Leon in again, the man in stitches after a bit too much champagne, grinning widely as Chris nuzzles close and presses a kiss to his neck. They settle like that for a long while, swaying from side to side as Leon scratches the back of Chris's neck, as Chris enfolds the man in his arms, never wanting to let him go.

"First day of the rest of our lives, right?" Leon says. He presses a hard kiss to Chris's temple, says, "Jesus. Never thought that..."

The wind picks up again and they both shiver, their jackets cast aside hours ago when the sun had still been high and they'd gotten sweaty from exertion and alcohol. Leon curls closer and Chris lifts his head up to look at the sky as the clouds are blown away. Moonlight blooms over them, the full weight of that celestial body bearing down on them, lighting the yard in full. It's a full moon tonight, which is some kind of luck-- Chris has always loved the sky, the stars, how looking up can always make him feel so cosmically small. He's sure that there's some kind of meaning to it beyond that, but to him it's just beautiful, and he's glad that they have it tonight of all nights.

"Want to go in?" he asks.

Leon grabs his hand and they separate, Leon walking backwards toward the house, moonlight glinting off his eyes and making him look like something more than human. "Ready if you are, Mister Redfield."

Grins grins, sick with how full his heart is. After a choked moment, he manages, "After you, Mister Redfield."