#sonata dubois

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Théodore Dubois (1837-1924) - Sonate pour piano en la mineur (1908)

Romain Descharmes

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say hello to our 64 niche pink haired characters !!!

after several weeks of deliberation , we've finalized our lineup of characters ! starting on 12 / 17 / 2023 , we'll begin voting to figure out who is the best niche pink haired character of all time !!!

ROUND ONE MATCHUPS

PART ONE - 12 / 17 Kanae Shinjou - Teekyuu VS Misa Maruno - Urahara Koharu Mitsurugi - Argonavis VS Kei Sarukawa - Charisma House Christelle de Sarnez - When the Third Wheel Strikes Back VS Penelope Eckart - Villains Are Destined to Die Jessi Shi - Balala the Fairies VS Riri Hitotsuyanagi - Assault Lily  Kohane Hatoya - Anima Yell! VS Aguri Sakurano - Gamers! Takara Utashiro - Fairy Ranmaru VS Dr. Doom Jazz - Paradise Killer Deana del Rio - Double Decker! Doug & Kirill VS Bianchi Law - Helios Rising Rose - Mysterious Joker VS Misha - Pita-Ten

PART TWO - 12 / 18 Leo Saionji - King of Prism VS Maasa Shirahone - Cute High Earth Defense Club Alinua - Aurora VS Seren Marsh - Serendipity Lovrina - Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness VS Nico - 100% Orange Juice Miyoi Okunoda - Touhou VS Caro Ru Lushe - Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Liza Wight - Professor Layton VS Kiko Kayanuma - Darker than Black Shinobu Inuyose - Dig Delight Direct Drive DJ VS Chihaya Anon - Bandori Chiester 45 - Umineko VS Juna Crawford - Kiseki Kady Grant - The Illuminae Files VS Peri Dubois - Entropic Float

PART THREE - 12 / 19 Claves - Eternal Sonata VS Hiori Hirahara - Blue Reflection Lavinia Asimov - Riordan VS Altea Bellerose - Lovestruck Luna Yumizuki - Cardfight!! Vanguard VS Yayoi Kusakabe - High-Rise Invasion Miyu Sakurada - Dig Delight Direct Drive DJ VS Kaoruko Moeta - Comic Girls Zigfried von Schroeder - Yu-Gi-Oh! VS Sakura Kiyashiki - Assassination Classroom Presea Combatir - Tales of Symphonia VS Tsukumo - Nanbaka Nene Romanova - Bubblegum Crisis VS Leilani - Reverse 1999 Reona West - Prism Paradise VS Zizel - Witch’s Heart

PART FOUR - 12 / 20 Mercymorn - The Locked Tomb VS Selene Ambrose - Midnight Train Tsubasa Hamori - Ensemble Girls VS Yamine Renri - UTAU Bluebell Candy - Magical Girl Raising Project VS Akoyo Gero - Cute High Earth Defense Club Maria Cadenzavna Eve - Symphogear VS Suzuki Miyu - You and I Are Polar Opposites Ryuu Zaou - Cute High Earth Defense Club VS Ashu Yuta - B-Project Chizuru Yakumo - Ensemble Girls VS Aries Spring - Astra Lost in Space Mangetsu Kohinata - Granbelm VS Azumi Shiratori - Nyanko Days Araya Endo - Assault Lily VS Amy - Grand Chase

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Taz: Would you -- please explain to me what I’m looking at in your living room?

Riley: I thought you’d recognize your own kids.

Prelude: Oh, hey, Dad. Nice of you to finally show up.

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Some of The best TV themes. Part 2

They make you want to listen to them again. More TV theme songs that are amazing.

Facts of Life

A spin-off of Diff'rent Strokes that ran from 1979 to 1988 it starred Charlotte Rae, Lisa Whelchel, Kim Fields, Mindy Cohn, Nancy McKeon, Cloris Leachman, Sherrie Krenn, Julie Piekarski, Julie Anne Haddock, John Lawlor, Jenny O'Hara, Felice Schachter, Molly Ringwald, Pamela Segall, Mackenzie Astin, George Clooney. The pilot for the show was first aired as the last episode of  season one  of Diff'rent Strokes and was called "The Girls' School (a.k.a. Garrett's Girls). 

Opening theme: The Facts of Life Theme.

The Greatest American Hero

Ran from 1981 to 1983 it starred William Katt, Robert Culp, Connie Sellecca, Michael Paré and Faye Grant. The series follows Ralph's adventures after a group of aliens give him a red and black suit that grants him superhuman abilities.

Opening theme: Theme from The Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not).

Wings

Ran from 1990 to 19970 it starred Tim Daly, Steven Weber, Crystal Bernard, Thomas Haden Church, David Schramm, Rebecca Schull, Tony Shalhoub, Farrah Forke, Amy Yasbeck and Brian Haley. The show is set in fictional "Tom Nevers Field" airport, a small two-airline airport in Nantucket, Massachusetts. 

Opening theme: Piano Sonata No. 20 in A major, D. 959, Rondo: Allegretto.

Laverne & Shirley 

Ran from 1976 to 1983 it starred Cindy Williams, Michael McKean, David Lander, Eddie Mekka, Phil Foster and Betty Garrett. Best friends, roommates and polar opposites Laverne and Shirley work together at the Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee.

Making Our Dreams Come True Making Our Dreams Come True.

The Jeffersons

 Ran from 1975 to 1985 it starred Isabel Sanford, Sherman Hemsley, Marla Gibbs, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover, Paul Benedict, Mike Evans, Berlinda Tolbert, Zara Cully, Damon Evans and Jay Hammer. "We're moving on up, to the East Side, to a deee-luxe apartment in the sky ... ."  The Jeffersons are a Spinoff from "All in the Family" ; they were the neighbors to the Bunkers.

Opening theme: "Movin' On Up" performed by Ja'net DuBois.

 

The King of Queens

 Ran from 1998 to  2007  is an American television sitcom with a total of nine seasons and 207 episodes. Doug and Carrie Heffernan are a working-class couple living at "3121 Aberdeen Street" in Rego Park, Queens, New York with Carrie's Father, Arthur Spooner.

Opening theme: "Baby All My Life I Will Be Driving Home to You" (instrumental) (season 2)

Welcome Back, Kotter

Ran from 1975 to 1979 it starred 

Gabe Kaplan, Marcia Strassman, John Sylvester White, Robert Hegyes, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Ron Palillo and John Travolta. Welcome Back, Kotter is about Gabe Kotter who returns to his old high school -- this time as a teacher.

Opening theme: Welcome Back.

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Preview: Ballad for Sophie

Ballad for Sophie preview. A young journalist prompts a reclusive piano superstar to open up, resulting in this stunning graphic sonata exploring a lifetime of rivalry, regret, and redemption. #Comics #ComicBooks

Ballad for Sophie Filipe Melo (A/CA) Juan CaviaIn Shops: Nov 03, 2021SRP: $24.99 A young journalist prompts a reclusive piano superstar to open up, resulting in this stunning graphic sonata exploring a lifetime of rivalry, regret, and redemption. 1933. In the small French village of Cressy-la-Valoise, a local piano contest brings together two brilliant young players: Julien Dubois, the…

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Amores orquestales

[Sandrine Piau el pasado mes de marzo durante su concierto en el Femás. La foto es del Femás]

Acompañada por el conjunto de instrumentos de época Le Concert de la Loge, la soprano francesa Sandrine Piau recrea en Alpha el universo de la ‘mélodie’ de finales del siglo XIX

La mélodie francesa representa a la perfección, como el lied alemán, esa necesidad del alma romántica de expresar las emociones, anhelos y deseos subjetivos. Alcanzada su mayoría de edad (en el sentido ilustrado, kantiano), cada vez más emancipado del patronazgo aristocrático o eclesiástico, el músico romántico busca la exhibición en libertad de su mundo interior, de sus sentimientos. Los poetas pusieron letra a esta ambición. La nueva poesía alemana, apasionada e intimista, encontró en la música de Schubert y sus contemporáneos un aliado ideal para difundirse en los espacios privados, en los salones de una burguesía que luchaba por alcanzar, desde el dominio económico, el poder político. La canción se eleva así a un rango de sustantividad que va más allá de la mera expresión artística para convertirse en símbolo de una emergente y ambiciosa clase social.

Es Schubert quien, más allá de la oportunidad histórica, crea el género, le da su espíritu, su sentido. Desde él, el lied adquiere dimensiones estéticas que lo igualan en trascendencia al género sinfónico, la sonata para teclado o el cuarteto de cuerda. En Francia, la nueva poesía de Victor Hugo o Alfred de Musset había ido transformando también los típicos romances de finales del siglo XVIII en algo cercano al mundo del lied, aunque en líneas generales la mélodie francesa tuvo siempre un espíritu más extravertido, menos trágico y trascendente que su equivalente alemán.

En la segunda mitad del siglo, pasada la oleada revolucionaria de 1848, la canción de cámara dará un salto fundamental: va a salir de los ambientes domésticos para afianzarse como oferta en los conciertos públicos. Esto significaría también la ampliación de los acompañamientos. En los teatros, por necesidades sobre todo prácticas, la orquesta se irá imponiendo al piano. En Francia, el caso de Berlioz resulta emblemático: sus Nuits d'été, escritas con acompañamiento pianístico entre 1840 y 1841, serán editadas en 1856 en una nueva versión orquestal. Este nuevo álbum de la soprano francesa Sandrine Piau (Issy-les-Moulineaux, 1965) recoge dos de las seis canciones del ciclo de Berlioz, junto a otras doce mélodies y cuatro piezas instrumentales que le ponen contexto.

[Sandrine Piau y Le Concert de la Loge durante la grabación del CD. la foto es de Hugo Warynski]

La mélodie romántica estuvo siempre muy orientada hacia la temática sentimental. Las canciones aquí recogidas pueden considerarse en este sentido emblemáticas. El álbum se presenta en dos partes: la primera bajo el título genérico de Recuerdo; la segunda bajo el de Deseo y Seducción. Un recorrido por las distintas estaciones del amor en el estilo lírico que la canción francesa fue desarrollando a lo largo del XIX, con una influencia de la ópera mucho más marcada que en la tradición alemana, que mantuvo sus señas de identidad dentro del marco intimista de la canción de cámara. En las orquestaciones dominan las armonías refinadas y suaves, el tono en general afable y tierno, que tiende en ocasiones a lo pastoral, con un uso muy variado de los matices de color, que se apoyan especialmente en las maderas o en los arabescos del primer violín.

Todo ello se compadece bien con el tratamiento elusivo de lo trágico que ofrecen los poemas puestos en música. Los recuerdos son en general dulces (el paseo matinal de Bordes); los lamentos y las lágrimas, contenidos (el éxtasis de Saint-Saëns). Las metáforas y los sueños ponen a menudo distancia (las mariposas de Saint-Saëns o Louis Vierne, el fantasma de la amada en Massenet, el rapto soñado de Victor Hugo utilizado por Saint-Saëns). Mientras, la naturaleza sirve el marco ideal para las confidencias (el paseo junto al lago de Dubois), la contemplación o el silencio, una naturaleza bella y benéfica, nunca turbulenta y amenazante como en tantos lieder contemporáneos.

Además de las dos noches de estío de Berlioz, el CD recoge su orquestación del Plaisir d'amour de Martini, un clásico de la canción francesa llegado directamente del siglo de las luces. Son estas tres obras berliocianas las más difundidas del contenido de un disco que se caracteriza justamente por ofrecer piezas poco transitadas. Así, las cuatro canciones de Saint-Saëns, que no se cuentan entre las más habituales de un catálogo generoso y ya de por sí poco conocido, o la de Jules Massenet. Tampoco es Louis Vierne un músico que se haya hecho popular por sus canciones. Compositores casi desconocidos como Charles Bordes, Alexandre Guilmant o Théodore Dubois (este por partida triple) son abordados también por Piau y Le Concert de la Loge, el conjunto de instrumentos de época creado hace menos de un lustro por el violinista Julien Chauvin. De las cuatro obras instrumentales que se intercalan entre las canciones, dos de ellas son transcripciones de obras pianísticas (la Chanson d'autrefois de Gabriel Pierné y el vals de Massenet), mientras las otras dos son curiosas, cada una por una razón: A las estrellas de Henri Duparc es una evocativa página orquestal de un músico que si destacó por algo fue justamente por sus canciones; el Grave de la Sinfonía gótica de Benjamin Godard es una auténtica rareza.

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August 24 in Music History

1531 Birth of composer Ercole Bottrigari.

1579 Birth of composer John Amner.

1669 Birth of Italian composer Alessandro Marcello in Venice.  1683 Birth of composer Meinrad Spiess.

1725 Birth of composer Johann Balthasar Kehl.

1733 Death of French composer Jean-Baptiste Moreauin Paris. 

1733 Birth of composer David Traugott Nicolai.

1748 Handel finishes the score of his oratorio Susanna.

1787 Mozart finishes his A Major violin sonata, K 526.

1789 Birth of soprano Louise-Therese Lemonnier.

1791 Birth of Austrian soprano Therese Grunbaum in Vienna.

1804 Death of German tenor Valentin Adamberger.

1804 Birth of Austrian flute virtuoso Josef Fahrback.

1817 Death of English soprano Anna Selina Storace. 

1820 Birth of composer Jacopo Tomadini.

1821 Birth of composer Emmanuele Muzio.

1821 Birth of tenor Aloys Ander in Libitz.

1826 Birth of German-American composer Edward Mack.

1829 Death of English conductor and organist Benjamin Jacob in London. 

1837 Birth of French organist and composer F. C. Theodore Dubois in Rosnay. 

1839 Birth of Czech-Russian composer and conductor Eduard Napravnik. 1846 FP of Franz Von Suppé's operetta Dichter und Bauer 'Poet and Peasant', in Vienna.

1853 Birth of Russian composer Nicolai Tcherbatchev.

1856 Birth of Austrian conductor, composer, and arranger Felix Mottl.

1867 Birth of Austrian soprano Ida Heidler in Vienna.

1879 Birth of composer Rentaro Taki.

1886 Birth of English soprano Dorothy Moulton in London. 

1881 Birth of French soprano Marthe Chenal. 

1890 Birth of composer Franz Philipp.

1904 Birth of German soprano Irma Beilke, in Berlin. 

1910 Birth of German-American composer Bernhard Heiden.

1912 Birth of German tenor Lorenz Fehenberger, in Oberweidach. 

1919 Birth of Danish composer and pianist Niels Viggo Bentzon.

1921 Birth of Italian soprano Mina Cravi-Bozza, in Bari. 

1924 Birth of American pianist Louis Teicher. 

1929 Birth of Hungarian soprano Stefania Moldovan.

1932 Birth of Australian composer Richard Meale in Sydney.

1934 Birth of American composer Roger Dickerson.

1943 FP of Leonard Bernstein's song-cycle I Hate Music! with mezzo-soprano Jennie Tourel and Bernstein, piano, at the Public Library in Lenox, MA.

1946 Death of tenor Antonio Paoli. 

1949 Birth of American composer Stephen Paulus in Summit, NJ. 

1949 Death of American bass Hermann Devries. 

1952 Birth of American organist Carlo Curley, in North Carolina. 1954 Birth of Venezuelan composer Alvaro Cordero in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.

1973 Death of Czech composer Slava Vorlova in Prague. 1976 Death of English composer Michael Head in Cape Town, South Africa.

1979 Death of Austrian tenor Ernst Gruber.

1980 FP of W. Lutoslawski's Double Concerto, for oboe, harp and chamber orchestra, Heinz Holliger, oboe; Ursula Holliger, harp; and the Collegium Musicum conducted by Paul Sacherin Lucerne, Switzerland.

1985 Death of American composer Paul Creston in San Diego, CA.

1988 Death of English conductor and pianist Kenneth Leighton in Edinburgh.

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also here's a tiny intro to those weekdays characters i've already drawn a bit of, the art's older but it still holds up

as you can probably guess from the name they're themed after the days of the week

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Les XX and Albéric Magnard (French, 1865-1914)

#LesXX and Albéric Magnard (French, 1865-1914) Albéric Magnard (French, 1865-1914) - Symphony No.1 in C-minor, Op.4 (1889) https://youtu.be/wKbT6Y4kvVk

Albéric Magnard (French, 1865-1914) Lucien Denis Gabriel Albéric Magnard (French pronunciation: ​[lysjɑ̃ dəni ɡabʁijɛl albeʁik maɲaːʁ]; 9 June 1865 – 3 September 1914) was a French composer, sometimes referred to as the "French Bruckner"[according to whom?], though there are significant differences between the two composers. Magnard became a national hero in 1914 when he refused to surrender his property to German invaders and died defending it. Biography[edit]

Magnard was born in Paris to François Magnard, a bestselling author and editor of Le Figaro. Albéric could have chosen to live the comfortable life his family's wealth afforded him, but he disliked being called "fils du Figaro" and decided to have a career in music based entirely on his talent and without any help from family connections.[1] After military service and graduating from law school, he entered the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied counterpoint with Théodore Dubois and went to the classes of Jules Massenet. There he met Vincent d'Indy, with whom he studied fugue and orchestration for four years, writing his first two Symphonies under d'Indy's tutelage. Magnard dedicated his Symphony No. 1 to d'Indy; and the two men always respected each other, despite their marked political differences (Magnard was pro-Dreyfus).

Magnard's house destroyed by the Germans, 1914. François Magnard did what he could to support Albéric's career while trying to respect his son's wish to make it on his own. This included publicity in Le Figaro.With the death of his father in 1894, Albéric Magnard's grief was complicated by his simultaneous gratitude to and annoyance with his father.

In 1896, Magnard married Julie Creton, became a counterpoint tutor at the Schola Cantorum (recently founded by d'Indy) and wrote his Symphony No. 3 in B-flat minor.

Magnard published many of his own compositions at his own expense, from Opus 8 to Opus 20. Similar to the oeuvres of Paul Dukas and Henri Dutilleux, Magnard's musical output numbered only 22 works with opus numbers.

In 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Magnard sent his wife and two daughters to a safe hiding place while he stayed behind to guard the estate of "Manoir de Fontaines" at Baron, Oise. When German soldiers trespassed, he fired at them, killing one of them, and they fired back and set the house on fire. It is believed[citation needed] that Magnard died in the fire, but his body could not be identified in the remains. The fire destroyed Magnard's unpublished scores, such as the orchestral score of his early opera Yolande, the orchestral score of Guercoeur (the piano reduction had been published, and the orchestral score of the second act was extant) and a more recent song cycle.

Work[edit]

Guy Ropartz, who had led a concert performance in Nancy of the third act of Guercoeur in February, 1908, reconstructed from memory the orchestration of the acts that had been lost in the fire. The Paris Opéra gave the belated world premiere in 1931. (A complete recording of Guercœur was released by EMI Angel/Pathé Marconi in 1990. It features Hildegard Behrens, Nadine Denize, José van Dam, and Gary Lakes, with the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse conducted by Michel Plasson.)

Magnard's musical style is typical of contemporary French composers, but occasionally, as in the four completed symphonies, certain passages foreshadow the music of Gustav Mahler. His use of cyclic form and occasional incorporation of chorale earned him the nickname of "French Bruckner." Although Bruckner used cyclical forms long before d'Indy "trademarked" the concept to César Franck's name, Magnard's handling of cyclical form is more Franckian than Brucknerian. In his operas, Magnard used Richard Wagner's leitmotiv technique

Magnard's chamber works include a string quartet, a quintet for piano and winds, a piano trio, a violin sonata (in G, opus 13) and a cello sonata (in A, opus 20). A few more were published posthumously, including the Quatre poèmes en musique, four songs for baritone and piano.[2]

List of compositions[edit]

Trois pièces pour piano, Op. 1 Suite dans le style ancien, Op. 2, for orchestra Six poèmes, Op. 3, for voice and piano 1. "À Elle" 2. "Invocation" 3. "Le Rhin allemand" 4. "Nocturne" 5. "Ad fontem" 6. "Au poète" Symphony No. 1 in C minor (1890), Op. 4 Yolande, opera (1888–1891), Op. 5 Symphony No. 2 in E (1893), Op. 6 Promenades, Op. 7, for piano Quintet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet & bassoon in D minor, Op. 8 Chant funèbre (1895), Op. 9 Overture (1895), Op. 10 Symphony No. 3 in B-flat minor (1896), Op. 11 Guercoeur, opera (1897–1900), Op. 12 Sonata for Violin and Piano in G, Op. 13 Hymne à la justice (1903), Op. 14 Quatre poèmes, Op. 15, for baritone and piano String Quartet in E minor, op. 16 Hymne a Venus, Op. 17 Trio for Piano and Strings in F minor, Op. 18 Bérénice, opera (1905–1909), Op. 19 Sonata for Cello in A, Op. 20 Symphony No. 4 in C-sharp minor (1913), Op. 21 Douze poèmes, Op. 22 En Dieu mon esperance À Henriette Discography[edit]

Albéric Magnard, "La musique de chambre," Timpani Records, France, 4 CDs (rel. Oct. 2014)

CD 1 Violin Sonata in G major, Cello Sonata in A major

CD 2 Piano Trio in F minor, Piano Quintet in D minor (for piano and wind instruments)

CD 3 String Quartet in E minor

CD 4 (spoken word) Discussion in French of work with music excerpts (Harry Halbreich, with Stéphane Topakian)

Liner notes in French and English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albéric_Magnard

LES XX 1893 Three concert evenings were organised. The first concert presented the first version of Paul Gilson's La Mer, Guillaume Lekeu's Andromèdeand music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Glazunov, and Franz Servais.[23] The second showcased music by Alexis de Castillon, César Franck, Charles Bordes, Louis de Serres and Emmanuel Chabrier.[3] The final concert included the first performance of Vincent d'Indy's Suite in D and Ernest Chausson's Concert.[15] The other music played was composed by Gabriel Fauré, Charles Bordes, Camille Chevillard and Albéric Magnard.[3] http://www.worldlibrary.in/articles/eng/Les_XX

Eugène Ysaÿe et la musique de chambre By Michel Stockhem, p. 101 https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=bFnkeYVJM6UC&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101&dq=Albéric+Magnard+les+XX&source=bl&ots=HXZp8fwA1T&sig=1-MFdLWWwCywFNJc8XSQXb5Tdl4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjt8I_53_fZAhWDULwKHUnWCX4Q6AEIazAO#v=onepage&q=Albéric%20Magnard%20les%20XX&f=false

JOURNAL ARTICLE Lettres d'alberic magnard à Octave Maus Albert Vander Linden and Albéric Magnard Revue belge de Musicologie / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap Vol. 17, No. 1/4 (1963), pp. 93-120 Published by: Societe Belge de Musicologie p. 93 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3686301?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

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This is probably an odd question, but have you ever thought of how things would have turned out in the story if certain events hadn't happened? Just any in general - big or small?

Hey! I don’t think it’s an odd question at all -- this is actually something I think about a lot! Just the other day I was having a conversation along these lines with @pixiegarden. :)

I’m getting to explore a few of those small changes you’re talking about in the rewrite I’m working on -- the basic structure and the Big Events(TM) are there, but some little details are changing along the way, and it’s interesting to see how dynamics are shifting just with a few minor tweaks.

There are so many things that could have changed and could have made big differences in the story, but a few of the “key points” for each generation and how I think they might have made things turn out a little differently are below the cut!

What if Taz hadn’t cheated on Gretta, or at least been honest about his affair with Adia and they’d been able to work things out?For one -- they would have raised Cadence together, and had Nocturne and Prelude a lot sooner. Taz and Gretta probably would have bought a house together, and Nick would have never been Taz’s next door neighbor -- potentially meaning Cadence would never have kissed him (she probably wouldn’t have been bold enough to do it during a lesson in her own house, especially with a younger brother and sister likely in the next room). And on the note of Cadence and Nick...

What if Cadence hadn’t kissed Nick in his apartment?It’s likely that Nick would never have known about Cadence’s crush. His reaction following the kiss suggests that he had feelings for Cadence before she kissed him -- but that he had never planned on acting on them. It’s possible that without the kiss, neither of them would have voiced their feelings, and their their mutual attraction would have eventually fizzled out, leading them to go their separate ways and both meet other people.

What if Sonata and Jacob hadn’t cheated on each other?Sonata sleeping with Buck, while a bad decision, was not necessarily a catalyst for anything other than the end of her relationship with Jacob (which, since he also cheated on her, still would likely have ended). Jacob and Adi’s relationship, however, was arguably the start of the events that led to Adi’s death -- Jacob’s involvement with the Vice-Korolyov case and investigation of Avarice led to his murder, which in turn led to Adi’s attempt to bring down her grandmother’s company and her death.Prior to Adi’s involvement with Jacob, she had a close (albeit manipulative) relationship with her grandmother. It’s likely that without her relationship with Jacob, Adi would have continued to be a leading figure in Korolyov Industries.

What if Ellie hadn’t gone to that party with Flan?Well, probably the most obvious change -- she would never have gotten pregnant with Toccata. She would have finished high school with her brothers and likely would have started dating Nat much sooner, as he had been working up the courage to ask her out at the party -- they would have settled down and started a family sooner; but since Ellie’s death wasn’t the result of anyone’s direct actions, she still would have left Nat a widower and single dad.The other side of Ellie going to the party is her involvement with Aidan. Since Toccata didn’t exist, he wouldn’t have attempted to pursue a relationship with his daughter. He may still have gotten a job with Korolyovs, and may still have had a relationship with Mina -- and that relationship is likely to have still been unhealthy -- but his aggressive insistence that Mina knew where Nat was hiding Toccata is what led to her killing him (and then fleeing to Jefferson’s).

What if Fugue had handed everything over to the Vices to begin with?Faspen wouldn’t exist. That’s it, that’s the most important thing that would have changed.

If there were any particular events (or anything else at all) you were wondering about, feel free to hit me up with more questions! :)

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The afternoon wore on and the guests trickled out, and Fugue and Aspen were among the last to leave, sitting with their grandparents well into the night until nearly all the other guests had left.

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Aspen: Jefferson Beauregard Maguire.

Jefferson: [startled] A-Aspen! Wh-what a surprise -- what’re you--?

Aspen: What have we told you about wearing gym shorts to the museum?

Jefferson: ...not to?

Aspen: And... what are you wearing?

Jefferson: Look, my name’s on the building, I get to wear whatever the hell I want. That’s how it works.

Aspen: That’s... not how it works. Your name is on the building so you have to be presentable--

[indistinct bickering]

[pollination-tech]

Aspen: Sorry for the intrusion. He refused to be stopped.

Buck: Hmph. Coulda swore we put the hat out--

Sonata: [teasing] What, this hat? The one on your head?

Buck: Your hat.

Aspen: [coughing politely] Um, your “favorite son” made some new friends that he thought might like to meet you both.

Buck: Well, might as well bring ‘em on in.