A lovely piece by Arnold Bax (1883-1953) - String Quartet in E Major, "Cathaleen-ni-Hoolihan" ·

Maggini Quartet

ATTENTION ROMANTICS, JANEITES, BYRONISTS, GEORGIANS, & OTHER 19TH CENTURY NERDS!

this website jane austen's music has resources all about the music jane austen composed by hand, like a link to this song captivity.

this website romantic-era songs has recordings of a bunch of music that was popular in the romantic era, including recordings of poetic works that were originally intended to be set to music. examples incl. lord byron's famous poems vision of belshazzar (a real banger!) & she walks in beauty (not what i expected having read it beforehand without it's music, but it was byron's own favorite to listen to). i really love this one the waters of elle by lady caroline lamb, also composed by isaac nathan. he was a famous jewish-english musician who later relocated to australia and introduced classical music there, & is thus sometimes called "the father of australian music" (apparently, according to his wiki, he was also the first person in the southern hemisphere to die in a tram incident after he got there... oddly specific factoid, but alright).

being a musician is knowing exactly what instrument belongs in what case, it never goes away lol

Shostakovich-Sollertinsky letter translations (Russian to English)

So, I finally finished formatting my translations of the Shostakovich-Sollertinsky letters from a few years ago! These are letters from Shostakovich to his close friend, the polymath and scholar Ivan Ivanovich Sollertinsky, from the late 1920s to 1943. They offer valuable insight on Shostakovich's opinions on subjects such as music, his personal life, and current events of the day.

The letters have been published in Russian and have also been translated and published in German; an official English translation does not exist as of posting this. I'm not a fluent Russian speaker and much of this was done with the help of a dictionary and the internet, but I believe I compiled a decent enough translation. I kinda had to rush the formatting towards the end, but it should be readable enough. Anyway, if anyone is interested, here it is!

For any Russian speakers who want to review my translations or would like to read the original letters, here is the PDF of the book.

if so, feel free to say in the tags what those names were!! 👀

Today's song is 100 EPITAPHS by Ferry featuring the Vocaloid V Flower

hai:3 ive been reading....... :3

making comics from silly moments so fun sighhh

Lecherous 30-something Thomas is whole new kind of seduction 😈

He’s dangerous, and fabulous 💅

Biggest reason I’m bummed about Balan not getting the (positive) attention it deserves is literally just that the soundtrack gets so overlooked I think it’s some of the best video game music ever made

John Blow (1649- 1708) - A Ground for Violins,

The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley.

btw. BTW. i love writing in italian i love the way my language works i love the fact that i can use different words i love that i can say long instead of tall to describe a person to give a different vibe i love that i can say gli occhi pieni di pianto i love that i love the way i can use the sound of my language to almost compose a song with my words

me, not paying attention, mostly staring into space

video I have on: the roman god Back Ass is painted on the wall

me: wait the fuck did you just pronounce that as?

Toby Marlow

Gender: Non binary (he/him)

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 12 October 1994

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Nationality: English

Occupation: Actor, composer, songwriter, musician, playwright, writer

Note: On 12 June 2022, Marlow became the first openly non-binary composer–lyricist to win a Tony Award

i read yout tbt snippet and i dont think u should be writing in spanish if you dont speak the language

aight so it’s not like it’s any of ur business cuz anyone can write whatever they want in whichever language they fucking want to lmao but I’m like FROM South America bitch my mother language is Spanish