#beowulf music

[rebeccasthoughts]

Beowulf (TL;DR)

Mini Book Reviews! originally from Books I Read in January 2023! 4.5/5 Stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 Beowulf is a heroic poem from around the 6th century AD and was originally written in Old English. It follows the titular hero Beowulf, the hero of the Geats. The story begins with him travelling to help Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, who is being terrorized by a monster named Grendel. The story continues to…

[in-elysium]

yo, heads up to anyone who isn't subscribed to dave malloy's mailchimp, he's holding a fundraiser to make an album of his most recent show Three Houses, which looks epic and we'd all really love to hear it I'm sure! It runs until October 3rd!

[princesskuragina]

Singing the last song. If you even care. (The Ninth Hour, Epilogue // Hadestown, Road to Hell Reprise)

[pixies992]

DAVE MALLOY FANS:

Are you a dave malloy fan? do you like surveys? well if they answer was yes to EITHER of those questions DO MY SURVEY RIGHT NOW

Even if you only know like two of his shows please do it all data is good data. Once I get enough responses I will make a post going through the results.

[this-is-a-dystopian-parable]

Dave Malloy blinkies!!!

Show off your favorite Malloysicals with me! You are welcome to use any of these!!! Credit is appreciated. They are all hosted from my website so it's nice and easy to copy the link, or you can download it for yourself. These are 300x40px for tumblrs sake, but they were originally made at 150x20.

MORE GORE version of the Beowulf one under the cut!

[malloy-character-death-battle]

Love loses!!! Dragon

Mr. Stringer & Henry's fight with the Dragon by @novellag

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[thesquirrelqueer]

@finallyheereandqueer is referring to this picture

which is from one of Beowulf Boritt’s 3D models for the show, there’s a bunch more too!

and even some 2D models

I don’t remember where I found them at all they’re just in the archive

[friends-w-ghosts]

I definitely never saw myself making Beowulf art but I’ve been listening to a musical based on it and I’m very obsessed, so here we are. I actually got to see Shayfer sing one of the songs live and after that I was done for lol I’ve listened to the whole album a million times.

It has a lot of great symbolism that was a lot of fun to work from! There were a loooot of thumbnail sketches as I tried to figure out what I wanted to focus on — I might actually finish one of the ones I scrapped and make it a Beowulf-only poster design.

If you want to listen to it yourself:

[stuck-in-a-cave]

thinking a lot about how for a project on Beowulf in the 5th grade i made a sock-puppet adaptation of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. i still have the video and while 10 year old me had no business even watching rocky horror let alone knowing it well enough to parody the lyrics....i cooked

[ciltilladeltilla]

Found a 1981 animated musical adaptation of John Gardner's Grendel, a book retelling Beowulf from the monster's pov that bases his personality on Jean-Paul Sartre. Visually it reminds me of The Wizard of Id, but I think it has some quality scenes, particularly 1:19:30 introducing Beowulf and the climax shortly after.

(To stave off link rot, here it is on the Internet Archive too.)

[latetothepartyandconfused]

[ID:digital drawing, the ninth hour fanart It shows Beowulf and Grendel Kissing with Beowulf sitting with her back against the wall and Grendel kneeling above her. Grendel is choking Beowulf with one hand and Beowulf has stabbed grendel with s sword. Beowuld has long brown hair tied back, light skin, blue eyes, red sating shirt and pants and a red and black paint around her eyes. Grendel has Pale greyish skin, long sharp ears, claws, brown on his torso and red eyes with black paint around them. \end ID]

[unproduciblesmackdown]

been on a rich journey of niche productions of yore, found these production pics ft. will roland as [?] in "zombies, actually....an undead musical" performed at the new orleans fringe festival in 2011

[pixies992]

name every dave malloy song

includes everything from great comet to his early independent music. see if you can beat my personal best of 226/315!

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the tumblr lesbians love Dave Malloy so much because not a single show of his doesn't have either a lesbian or a woman in a suit/playing a man

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MALLOY CHARACTER DEATH BATTLE BEGINS!

We are currently in the preliminary rounds! Characters with only one submission are going head-to-head to whittle down the contestants before the proper battle begins.

Rules:

All characters must be from a musical associated with Dave Malloy

Matchups are decided based on number of submissions & a random number generator

Play nice! No harassment/bullying/etc

Please read the propaganda when voting, it's no fun if people only vote characters they've heard of :(

Think of each fight as a one-on-one duel, any skills and weapons are fair game, but no calling for backup!

Ties will result in the formation of teams

You may send extra propaganda in asks while a poll is still running

Preliminary Bracket:

We are going to be posting each round of the preliminaries a day at a time (so, four polls a day), as soon as they're up we'll link them all here! If you asked to be tagged, we'll tag people as soon as all the preliminaries are up.

Round 1:

Mo Vs Starbuck

Wolf Vs Anatole

Harper Perkins Vs Hrothgar

Prince Bolkonsky Vs The Dragon

Round 2:

Jesus Vs Denisov

Moby Dick Vs Starchild

Soldier Vs Judas

Sonya Rostova Vs Pearl White

Round 3:

Blue Wizard Vs Toby

Balaga Vs Demon Voice

Jessica Vs Andrey

Marya D Vs Sarah