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deci-doodles · 9 months ago

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This was originally a request from a friend but I figured I might as well post here coz I think it’s too funny

Audio: Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique Mvt. 4. March to the Scaffold

Would highly recommend listening to the whole track coz it’s a banger but also it’s literally the composer having an opium-induced fever dream about him getting his head lopped off at the guillotine so

#genshin impact #focalors #neuvillette #I’m not sorry #this whole thing spawned from me ranting about Fontaine’s OST for like the nth time #for context I’m a classical musician and while I don’t think Fontaine’s music is necessarily bad #and I get what Hoyomix was aiming for #the direction they chose just frustrates me so much that I could probably scream about it for a good ten minutes or so #again not saying Hoyomix is bad I love their stuff too it just #FRSUTRATES ME #that the nation primarily inspired by what I’m assuming is Belle epoque France #fails to capitalise off of using French romantic composers from the era #and yes I know they said they’ve used Saint-Saëns #Ravel and Faure but I can’t hear it outside of the original Travail motif which was repurposed to just Arlecchino’s #and no imitation compositional technique isn’t making it super obvious either #but somehow we get a lot of Russian and Soviet composers #and I LOVE their stuff #but I was expecting Shostakovich and Stravinsky for SNEZHNAYA NOT FONTAINE #and also Khachaturian while we’re at it #SERIOUSLY WHY IS THERE A SUPER STRAVINSKY SOUNDNING TRACK IN SOME FRENCH CAVES #for reference the track is Magick Without Tears #I mean if we got Chopin at least question mark #but the dude is still Polish and famously homesick despite living in France #but seriously how did we get fricking Le Mer referenced in INAZUMA BUT NOT FONTAINE #no track names alluding to Debussy’s famous works don’t count either we could’ve had La Cathedral Engloutie underwater or something likE #IMAGINE #*cathedrale oops #and don’t get me started on how one of the few references I can find to French Impressionism is just Satie’s gymnopedie #and they named it Gymnopedie too LIKE #or any reference in the OST to the operas in Furina’s constellations like those are som serious bangers

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