#berlioz is me i am berlioz

[symphonybracket]

The symphony bracket is here!

This is how voting will proceed:

Beginning on September 1, one poll (2 symphonies) will be posted per day. The poll duration will be 7 days.

The reason for the slow posting will be to give voters time to listen, in case one or both symphonies is new to them!

There are 64 symphonies in the bracket, meaning 32 polls.

Happy voting!

Left Side:

Mahler 2 vs Prokofiev 5

Bruckner 8 vs Mozart 10

Mahler 10 vs Schubert 8

Pejačević 1 vs Beethoven 9

Shostakovich 7 vs Glière 3

Beethoven 5 vs Tchaikovsky 6

Mahler 1 vs Sibelius 2

Beethoven 8 vs Vaughan Williams 2

Copland 3 vs Beach Gaelic

Beethoven 6 vs Dvořák 7

Borodin 2 vs Saint-Saëns 3

Mendelssohn 4 vs Beethoven 3

Rachmaninoff 2 vs Kalinnikov 2

Prokofiev 1 vs Rachmaninoff 1

Emilie Mayer 2 vs Vaughan Williams 7

Haydn 75 vs Dvořák 8

Right Side:

Mahler 5 vs Polymath 1

Corigliano 1 vs Ives Universe

Price 1 vs Shostakovich 5

Mahler 6 vs Sibelius 5

Prokofiev 7 vs Mendelssohn 5

Shostakovich 11 vs Mahler 3

Shostakovich 9 vs Ives 4

Berlioz Symphony Fantastique vs Britten Simple Symphony

Vaughan Williams 1 vs Tchaikovsky 4

Shostakovich 10 vs Hovhaness 4

Beethoven 7 vs Grant Still 2

Dvořák 9 vs Brahms 1

Brahms 2 vs Maslanka 4

Brahms 3 vs Tchaikovsky 1

Tchaikovsky 5 vs Mozart 40

[pretentiouswreckingball]

I know some people care more about what a song says but I care more about how it sounds so, what song you enjoy listening to, music/sound wise?

[musical-chick-13]

Usually "self-indulgence" in fic for me looks like, "This person gets a hug," or "this character has the same mental illness as I do," but really, the ultimate act of self-indulgence is giving a character my exact Classical music preferences.

[mitamicah]

Meow there :3 💛💛💛💛💛

May I ask for my fav kitty 🥰🥰🥰, please :3, but only if it isn't too much.

Pijano cats :3 (they give aristocats vibes) 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Have a nice day 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛

The pose gave me total AristoCats vibes so I ended up giving them little bows like Berlioz and Toulouse 🥹

Also bonus Kris as Marie from the 'Ladies don't start fights but they can finish them scene🤣🩷

Reminder: I am open for suggestions/requests until tomorrow morning (Friday July 19 8 am CET)

[blakenation1]

Introduction Post

Hello, I've seen a lot of active tumblr folks make these things so I am too! Keep reading under the cut.

Name: Blake

Gender: male 🏳️‍⚧️

I don’t label my sexuality? Sexuality labels are not for me 👍🏻

he/him pronouns!!! please!!!

INFJ

Sagittarius

Unfortunately American

I’m 18!! If you’re under 15 I don’t mind if you follow but I probably won’t interact with you a ton

Also if you’re under 15, please don’t interact with me privately 🙏

Current fixation: Dead Boy Detectives/Dead Poets Society

random fandom thoughts (that rhymed haha)

reblogging

me yapping about whatever my current fixation is

I do not shut up about what my current fixation is...

and uhhhh just me hanging out and talking with people who are also obsessed with the things I'm obsessed with?

maybe some poetry and other creations?

mainly fandom thoughts. random fandom thought. say that three times fast.

Fandoms: Dead Poets Society, Dead Boy Detectives, Good Omens, Stranger Things, Percy Jackson, Adventure Time, Welcome Home (by partycoffin), Umbrella Academy (or anything Robert Sheehan), Misfits, anything Super Mario Bros, Studio Ghibli, Over the Garden Wall, Haikyuu, FNAF, Heartstopper, Sports Night, RWRB, and honestly a lot of others I can’t think of right now.

Music I like: too much. Literally can get behind almost anything. ALMOST anything. Not everything. I love jazz, classical, indie, folk, rock. I love Papooz, berlioz, Beyoncé, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Henry Mancini, Piero Piccioni, Jamiroquai, Alex G (🏳️‍⚧️), TV Girl, and SO much more. Please talk to me about my favorite music and fandoms I will talk nonstop.

My favorite animals are sharks, I will also talk about them nonstop. 🦈

Reading and writing are also hobbies of mine

Please send me scenarios to write or something I think they're so fun 🙏🏻

SEND ME HCS TO WRITE I WILL DO (almost) ANYTHING

I sew a lot, I like turning my clothes into random stuff or something new

Or making clothes

I love art, literally any kind of art.

Oh! and I'm pagan, I currently worship Apollo, Aphrodite, Artemis, and Athena. I also practice witchcraft so that's a lot of fun. If you’re also pagan we should so totally talk!!

If you wanna follow me on other stuff (insta, tiktok, letterboxd, Twitter, WHATEVER!) My user is also blakenation1 on most things :)

Fair warning though I never get on Twitter so 😭

DONT BE SHY TO TALK TO ME IF WE HAVE STUFF IN COMMON!!! I’m so nice and friendly and awkward and cool.

Here’s a little picrew of me so you can kind of put a face with a name?? And get a rough idea of what I look like? LMAO!!

[u2fangirlie-blog]

Good Omens Aziraphale's Sad Bastard Breakup Playlist

After the breakup, Aziraphale has a new job in heaven, having taken Gabriel’s vacant position. Aziraphale is haunted by sad music reminding him of his time with Crowley. The songs are dramatic, tragic, melancholic, angry, wistful, romantic, and sentimental. How does he listen to music at his new job in the head office? Are material objects allowed? Does he keep a secret stash of tea, cake, and records and a phonograph player in his office? Does he have a celestial radio that can tune in Earth radio stations? Does he sneak off to Earth to hang out in record shops and bookstores? Or more dramatically and emotionally torturously, does he remember every note, every nuance, every feeling, of every song and replay them in his mind? He's stuffing his face with angel food cake and tea while crying and listening to sad bastard songs and hiding from Michael and the Metatron.

See note after list on song selection process.

Songs include:

“Lacrimosa” – Mozart, Requiem in D Minor, Vienna Mozart Orchestra

“Commendatore” – Mozart, Don Giovanni, Amadeus film soundtrack

“Ja, tot katoramu vnimala” – Rubenstein, The Demon, Nicolai Ghiaurov

“D’amour l’ardente flemme” – Berlioz, The Damnation of Faust, Maria Callas

“Liebestod” – Wagner, Tristan and Isolde, Waltraud Meier

“Ach ich fuhls” – Mozart, The Magic Flute, Gundula Janowitz

“Thy hand, Belinda … When I am laid in earth” – Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, Janet Baker

“E lucevan la stelle” – Puccini, Tosca, Placido Domingo

“Celeste Aidia” – Verdi, Aida, Mario Lanza

“Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” Mahler, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

“Der Wanderer” – Schubert, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

“Love is a Plaintive Song” – Gilbert and Sullivan, Patience, D’Oyly Carte Opera Company

“I am a Courtier Grave and Serious” – Gilbert and Sullivan, The Gondoliers, D’Oyly Carte Opera Company

“The Gentleman is a Dope” – Rodgers and Hammerstein, Allegro, Blossom Dearie

“A Hymn to Him” – Lerner and Lowe, My Fair Lady, Rex Harrison

“Could I Leave You?” – Sondheim, Follies, Alexis Smith

“We Do Not Belong Together” – Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George, Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin

“On My Own” – Schonberg, Les Misérables, Frances Ruffelle

“As Long as He Needs Me” – Bert, Oliver, Judy Garland

 “Stranger in Paradise” – Wright and Forest, Kismet, Richard Kiley and Doretta Morrow

“A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” – Sherwin and Maschwitz, Vera Lynn

“Night and Day” – Porter, The Gay Divorcee, Ella Fitzgerald

“I’ve Got You Under My Skin” – Porter, Born to Dance, Shirley Bassey

“Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” – Rodgers and Heart, Pal Joey, Sarah Vaughan

“They Can’t Take That Away From Me” – Gershwin, Shall We Dance, Fred Astaire

“Mon Deu” – Dumont and Vaucaire, Edith Piaf

“Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” – Dumont and Vaucaire, Edith Piaf

P.S.: Aziraphale likes Les Mis because it reminds him of that time Crowley rescued him from the Bastille. Don't tell anyone. It's a big secret.

P.P.S.: “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” reminds him of the time he and Crowley got drunk in the backroom at the bookshop the day the anti-Christ was delivered to Earth. Basically, this song reminds him of every time they went out for drinks or stayed in and drank.

P.P.P.S.: “I am a Courtier Grave and Serious” was the song Aziraphale planned to play when trying to tempt Crowley into learning the gavotte. It reminds him of the ball in the bookstore when he finally danced with Crowley.

P.P.P.P.S.: “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” is as close as Aziraphale can get to telling the world and Crowley to eff off. He has no more effs to give. Or at least he’s trying to convince himself he no longer gives a f***. He’s going off to his new job at the head office and Do Good.

Note on song selection:

I selected songs that thematically fit with the relationship between Aziraphale and Crowley. I think the songs tell a story of Aziraphale’s struggle to reconcile his conflicted motivations. They reflect Aziraphale’s fears and desires. He fears being hauled off to hell for disobedience. He fears Crowley’s death and being alone in the world. He desires to be emotionally intimate with Crowley. (Dare he risk physical intimacy with Crowley?) He feels self-righteously indignant, but he’s soft and squishy and weepy and misses his best friend.

I don’t have much knowledge of opera or musical theater, but I have some experience with choir and solo performance. I did a lot of research into opera, art songs, musicals, showtunes, and standards to create a playlist on YouTube. Selections were based on availability, popularity, and sound quality. My big question was whether or not Aziraphale is a strict originalist or if he likes different versions of songs. In some places, I chose newer versions over original versions due to the sound quality of the recordings. I tried to keep selections accessible to a wide audience with varying degrees of musical knowledge. You may not like my choices, so your mileage may vary. You can make your own playlist.

You can listen to it on YouTube.

[penroseparticle]

Penrose Album of the Day, Day 37: open this wall by berlioz

Surprise! I bet you were expecting a single song. Strap in though, I went a little crazy here. God this album came out literally a week ago and I am head over heels in love with it. Have you ever had love at first sight with something but with your ears? I have.

There’s times when songs or albums or artists or what have you grab me by the lapels and say “I AM SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO YOU. OPEN YOUR HEART WHILE I POUR THE WORLD INSIDE” and I am stuck standing, grinning like a fool with my open socket heart. I think the first time I was aware it was happening was at a concert. I was going to go see Reptar, a band the guy I was dating at the time really liked. The opener was this band I had also never heard of, Young Empires (I had barely heard of Reptar, to be honest. That said they’re not bad, Ice Black Sand is a good listen if you’re interested). The band started to warm up, they looked like nothing special, and well, then they started playing.

I was probably one of the tallest people at the venue of maybe 50-100 people, which was notable but not that weird. Sometimes being 6’1” makes you stand out. Or maybe I’m mythologizing the moment in my head; people tend to do that. Maybe I only remember the bits that matter to me. What matters though, and this is true- what matters is I was taller by about a head than every person in front of me, and I was 5-6 people deep in the crowd. So I had a full, clear view of the stage, and of Matthew Vlahovich (The lead singer). So when the song Sunshine came on, and I slowly realized that I was about to be carried away by this song, and be this band’s fan for life, Matthew watched the creeping realization and delirious, wild smile crawling over my face, the love blooming like a tender beansprout in my heart. And he pointed at me and smiled, still singing the song. I was hooked for the entire set.

I never remember it’s a Reptar concert, by the way. I couldn’t tell you a single song they played. But I won’t forget Young Empires.

I love when the message makes it perfectly to me. I love when I see the vision. I hear the secret. I can’t express what makes a song do this for me either. By all accounts I can’t even tell what gives a song that quality. What’s the rhyme, what’s the reason. There are songs I truly, absolutely love that did not strike me in that fashion. But there are other songs, or whole albums, where this happened. Sunshine by Young Empires. Smoke by Victoria Monet. And now ascension by berlioz grabbed me and never let go.

After I listened to this album in full, I went on a dive and the first thing I saw berlioz’s spotify profile. “If Matisse made house music”. Fuck that’s so pretentious. So. X meets Y. It’s essential, in a way. A great, pithy one liner to describe your music. But like. That’s so arrogant!!! That’s like calling yourself the Da Vinci of music. Like saying not only am I the best at what I do, but I’m directly comparable to not just someone equally as skilled in another medium. But long lasting and prolific. Matisse is a household name for an art style people couldn’t pick out of a lineup some days. And don’t get me wrong, some days I’m people. Matisse. Christ.

I literally can’t disagree though, is the best part. How shocking to be prepared for bad taste, only to find an apt comparison. Even the cover art is very The Cutouts meets Blue Algal meets Madame Matisse in a Kimono meets who gives a rats ass what I think. What do you think. What does this album art make you feel. Do you like it? Is the white background with the vibrant colors reminiscent of something for you? Did you mistake it for a work of art? Was that a mistake? Isn’t it beautiful? How lucky.

I sound like an art teacher. I should be embarrassed but I’m just enthralled. I sound pretentious. Like this means something. And it does, but I don’t talk this way about everything. I don’t talk this way about things that I even feel more strongly about or find more important. Maybe I’ve gotten old, or joy is infectious, or I just like writing words in any order. Maybe everyone else knows the secret that music should enthuse. I don’t know. I just know this album makes me feel like it’s a balmy summer night, which is lucky, because it is. And I want to tell everyone.

Berlioz wants that too- his first EP was titled jazz is for ordinary people. There’s this sentence my roommate used and I’ve never really forgotten it. “People wear jewelry to tell you something”. And well. Artists name tracks to tell you something to. They reference to tell you something. They choose album art. To tell you something. The medium? It’s calling you, and the metadata berlioz has included in his work smacks you over and over again- this music is not special, or for smart people, for the erudite or the well read or the people who can use the big fancy music words. This music was for you. For me. It’s for us to enjoy. Period.

Matisse made art like a good comfy armchair, and berlioz makes art like the music playing in the coffee shop with that armchair in it. So the comparison isn’t a bad one, OK. That’s not to say I think berlioz is Matisse levels of good. I’m saying he has an understanding of narrative. Of evocation. I’m saying he might be a wizard, perhaps. (I guess I AM saying berlioz might be Matisse levels of good, but a good debut is simply that, right?). Matisse is even sampled on one of his works- la danse, from 2022. He gave a radio interview and berlioz just. Sampled his inspiration.

There’s a Rolling Stone Interview where he’s talking about his sample work actually and I do love what he says- he’s talking about the Nancy Wilson sample from open this wall (the namesake track), and what he says about spontaneity and how sampling can be more evocative due to its nature, like. The fact that any sample is not intended for use in the song it’s being used in, so it’s earnest and somehow, despite being recorded many moons ago, fresh and spontaneous. A thought fully formed springing from the head, like Athena. I think jazz, house, and black classical (ode to rashaan was very clear ok) all lend themselves to this dreamy, illustrative, almost building block-esque feel that a lot of Matisse’s art gives me. Dance (I) but given auditory form. Where you can take pieces and fit them together and have something that’s more than the sum of its parts.

Open This Wall is 34 minutes long. 34 minutes! She is baby. She is tiny. I want to hold her, this newborn babe, carried into this world so gently, with such promise. I don’t think anything really taught me about potential as much as this tiny musical blip. This short, infinitesimal series of soundwaves. This cosmic ant of an album, engulfed by the world and not even trying to hide it. 34 minutes isn’t just enough. It’s perfect. Ascension grabs you with some truly smooth saxophone (I hope most ardently that it’s Attlee himself playing it) and just the most quietly groovable house track you’ve ever rolled molly to. And 30 minutes later you’re free. But changed.

This music simultaneously is music I think I could dance with someone to. Music I could make dinner to. Music I could read to. Music I could fall asleep to. This is music, most importantly, I would wholeheartedly recommend to you if you are excited to try something new. Dip your toe into some house music, or some jazz.

If 34 minutes is too much of your time, my 4 personal favorite songs are ascension, open this wall, something will happen, and nymtp.

You could, however, use this as an excellent jumping off point for some other music. My favorite thing about music like this is that. The samples are a way deeper. You can listen to Nancy Wilson. See what drew berlioz to her in the first place. On ode to rashaan, you hear a sample extolling black classical music, and the song is written about Rashaan Roland Kirk. Do you want to dig deeper, to find the connections? I’ll let you look up the sample. A good puzzle for those who care.

I genuinely, wholeheartedly loved this album. And hey. You could be dead right now. Go listen to something you love. I know I am.

[desceros]

hi sam!! kind of a different request, but would you list as many of your favorite orchestral pieces as you can? association with turtles v welcome but also optional! i have trouble doing my coursework because i can't listen to anything in the background while doing it (shows, music with lyrics), but i listened to scheherazade because of you and really loved it, plus got some work done to boot!! i'm not sure where to start in looking for more music like that so i thought i'd ask you. :)

oohhhh what a FUN ask, thank you so much!! i promise i am going to TRY to be REASONABLE with how much i talk about this. if i really did mention "as many as i could" i think i'd find out if tumblr has a character limit in text posts, hahaha!

so my favorite symphony of ALL TIME is symphony 9 by dvorak. absolute must-listen. my favorite moment of the entire piece (which you HAVE to listen to the entire thing to get REALLY feral about) is the last huge chord progression in the fourth movement that takes the db major brass chords from the second movement and puts it to the BOMBASTIC TYMPANI EB MINOR EXTRAVAGANZA from the first movement and makes me want to CHEW THROUGH BEDROCK, RAHHH

aside from that, here are a few that i love a lot and totes recommend:

all of scheherezade is, of course, absolutely stunning. it's one of my favorite pieces of all time. if you haven't listened to the other movements, i highly recommend! in this same vein is you liked that are pieces like the stepps by borodin, the polovstian dances (also borodin), marche slav by tchaikovsky, and to some extent saint-saens piano concerto no. 5 has some similar themes, particularly in the absolutely DELICIOUS second movement. it's called "orientalism" and while the, uh, intent has a history of. to say generously. problematic undertones. the pieces themselves are lovely.

russian easter overture by rimsky korsakov. i played this one in high school and man. it's just so FUN and PRETTY.

symphonie fantastique by hector berlioz. it's the story of this dude having a really bad acid trip. no i'm not kidding. also the fifth movement has the dies irie in my favorite iteration ever. eat your heart out, mozart.

...actually just literally anything by tchaikovsky. gun to my head, i'd say he's my favorite classical composer. i'm partial to his ballet work because that's what i played a lot of personally, but his overtures and concertos are quite fun. his romeo and juliet overture is extremely famous (though i personally vastly prefer the opening part over the latter, more famous part). every violinist you ever meet will be traumatized by him, though. so do be careful.

speaking of concertos: my favorite (ugh. i'm a traitor) is probably the barber violin concerto. it just has this. cinematic vibe to it that makes me think of something magical.

(....though the elgar cello concerto and the grieg piano concerto may have something to say about this.)

the planets suite by holst is very fun. you've probably heard mars, and you may recall the romance theme from jupiter if you've seen the movie braveheart. it's one of those mainstream pieces most people have heard. my particular favorite movement is uranus. it's so bouncy and fun!!! classical headbanger music here

beethoven is quite fun to listen to. for his orchestral work, i'm partial to symphony no. 5 since that was the first one i played and the drama of it is enthralling. (yes. i think it's better than nine. sue me.). that said, between you and me, i like the egmont overture better than his symphonies. that low open c on the viola is just so god damned juicy—[door bangs open] OH NO. IT'S THE PRETENTIOUS POLICE. THEY FOUND ME

i'll stop there. these are a few symphonic pieces, since you asked for those specifically. i also really love chamber music (which is just the strings section, sans the woodwinds/brass/percussion/etc), but i find those amazing to listen to as well! anywho i hope you enjoy some slash all of these and good luck with your studies!!

[bbarican]

♪⭑٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و ♡♪ ----- weekend warrior

happy friday, tumblr! im so glad its almost the weekend

although i do need to work this weekend since i still have a lot to do for our event on the 18th pero im positive naman na working this weekend will help tremendously kaya no worries

ultimately though, ang problem ko lang now is finding the energy to work today on a friday when this week has alreayd felt so long, i just wanna rot in bed or rot my brain by playing the whole day

pero syempre hindi pwedeng hindi mag wowork today so im just here hyping myself up

berlioz's album came out last night and i am so happy! im so happy i discovered him on tik tok kasi his music is right up my alley

and his artist description on spotify is so spot on with his music style nga? "if matisse made house music" OKAY OKAY

i dont want to ramble on any longer, i really do need to work, but im just glad i have new music to keep me going

happy friday tumblr! konting tiis nalang makakapag pahinga na rin tayo kahit papano!

[mendyson]

Maestro, have you introduced Herr Berlioz to your sister yet? I'm sure she would be delighted to meet him, but I am unsure whether or not she'll find him amusing.

I never would have dreamed in doing such in my entire life. I didn’t get along with Hector when I first met him, but that was by my own fault. I am sure Fanny would be more tolerable of him than me! Nothing can go too badly…

@berliozussy-official ! COME HERE! I’d like to introduce you to somebody.

[citizen-charlie]

Day 8

After 3 intense hours of more drawing (.. to make up for my lateness) I am finally done

This time the composers choosen by the wheel are :

Schubert!

Paganini (One of my favourite composer! :), the hair was a hell to draw 🥲)

Rachmaninoff (@s-v-rachmaninoff my teacher said we will go see one of your concert in February, I am very excited. I don't know how to not repeat myself but I hope you'll enjoying this small gift of mine, Mister Rachmaninoff)

Berlioz! (@berliozussy-official Bonjour, Monsieur Berlioz. I don't see you often on my tumblr page but I do enjoy seeing your interactions with mendelssohn :), I hope you will like it too!)

-A French stick bug

And finally Mendelssohn ! (@mendyson, your hair is very beautiful, mister, but also a pain to draw, although I tried my best I hope you will not hold it against me)

[1tsny4nc4t]

(note pls put the volumen put since it can be hear kinda low,it Is 12:06 am so yk so i dont Wanna wake up people)

"whats "toulouse" gonna do anyway? Fingerpaint me to death?" UFF IT HIT THE ARISTOCATS REFRENCE!!/pos When i hear that eddy said "Toulouse" and when Sarah when to them there we're cat sounds like as a aristocats fan i love this refrence especially since like Sarah Is like painting and Toulouse Is like the "painter" from His 2 sinblings (berlioz & Marie)

[withbriefthanksgiving]

I am, and I'm wonderful

And I know there's this supreme power

That gives me the ability to be everything, if I just allow it to happen

It's about not going against the grain,

It's about not banging your head against a wall that will not come down-

It's about saying:

"Open this wall for me, please."

[musical-chick-13]

......Upon further reflection, perhaps I should not have mentioned this piece in this context during this fic, because I am not sure I can talk about it irl with a straight face now.

[nostalgicyorkshiregirl]

tagged by @druidx for a catch up... tagging everyone who follows this blog

currently reading: herr der diebe (the thief lord), by cornelia funke... have just started it after buying it on holiday last week. may or may not have spent fully €70 on books in germany and it may or may not be about to happen again when i am in france

last song: whatever is on classic fm right now, i think it's the trojan march by berlioz

currently watching: i still have not caught up with doctor who. i don't know what's stopping me... maybe not wanting jodie whittaker not to be the doctor any more

last film: no idea

sweet/savoury/spicy: always sweet

relationship status: n/a

favourite colour: my grandmother got me a bunch of threads from a charity shop and they are all some nice rich purples so maybe that

current obsession: waiting for my obsessions to return from the war... maybe it will be stendhal next since i am going to his home town

tea or coffee: no

last thing googled: was listening to a podcast episode about alexis soyer (a 19th century celebrity chef) and they mentioned a specific portrait so i looked it up because pictures don't work well in the podcast medium. he looks like a generic guy with a silly hat

[shredsandpatches]

I am the kind of person who goes to a party and ends up getting into a disagreement over whether Berlioz!Faust and Marguerite ever actually manage to have sex (they absolutely do, the duet they sing in part 3 basically represents it*).

I am also the kind of person who goes to the kind of parties where this conversation is likely to happen, so that's nice for me.

*The duet ends with him singing "viens, viens" and her singing "ah, je meurs" so like. Yeah. I am, however, open to the possibility that Faust doesn't actually get to finish before Mephistopheles interrupts them.