#music structure

[diet-cokette]

does any music geek know what its called where the song doesn't really have a bridge but just immedeatly with little to no pause goes into that last incredibly hurtful verse with more passion and oomf because it kills me every time

[gagliandi]

Music and Lyrics

Music and Lyrics: How They Grow Together(Inspired by Jack Perricone’s Great Songwriting Techniques)For some artists, music comes before words. A simple chord progression can create a certain mood, emotion, or rhythm that leads to a melody, and eventually, to coherent lyrics.Starting with the MelodyMany songwriters find themselves humming a short musical phrase (often with made-up syllables) long…

[elrohirtheneurodivergent]

I absolutely love it when in the last chorus of a song (or in similar structural song elements) a melody instrument plays a slower, wailing kind of melody under the faster, often heavier already established parts. Examples of this can be found in Planetary Bliss by Opal in sky, Soulless existence by Lorna Shore or Laplace's Angel (Hurt People? Hurt People!) by Will Wood

Do you know any that might fit this description?

[lookninjas]

Pick a song from a bad description! You do not have to recognize any of the songs to vote (although tbh I feel like this is one of my most obvious ones -- there is an actual song title in one of the choices). Just go from the vibes. Pick whichever is funniest to you, or matches your current situation, or whatever makes a random bad song description appeal to you.

At the end of the week, I will take the poll results and use them to arrange the songs in a playlist, from the song with the lowest amount of votes to the song with the highest amount of votes. If you would like to hear the playlist, leave a comment or put it in the tags of your reblog, and I will tag you when the playlist goes up. And if you really can't wait to know what a song is, send me an ask and I will answer it.

And please reblog the poll! 'Cause this is as close as I can come to sending you guys a mixtape, so if you share it with your followers and they share it with their followers it's like we're all getting a mixtape, and that's fun. So let's keep the mixtapes moving.

[rogdona]

@doyoureallyneedme I TRIED AJSDHGSH😭😭😭

[hellsite-proteins]

be-protein the lyrics of your favorite song

if you want

its hard to choose a favourite song, so you're getting two.

my favourite overall is probably 'boys will be bugs' by cavetown, but i also watched 'I saw the TV glow' a couple weeks ago and it took over my brain, and i've been listening to 'anthems for a seventeen year-old girl' by yeule pretty much on repeat

boys will be bugs protein sequence:

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anthems for a seventeen year-old girl protein sequence:

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protein guy analysis:

i've decided to adopt a sense of fun and whimsy while looking at the cavetown protein, and i think if i angle it right it looks like a creature, although i am not creative enough to imagine how that would look. there are several spiralling loops that look like they should be something, but aren't actually making any secondary structure. there are still a few beta sheets and one notably long alpha helix stretching across the entire peptonomination. its weird, and from a scientific standpoint probably bad, but at least it looks neat i guess?

anthems for a seventeen year-old girl is a very repetitive song. if you can't tell from the protein sequence as its formatted above, i suggest you google the lyrics. because of this, i'm not surprised by how this looks. still, i'm not thrilled either. like i said the first time this happened, i'm not all that surprised that it turned into a mess of rectangular repeating loops with a few beta sheets from a mathematical perspective. still, i wish the convoluted spirals could at least stick to themselves and not intersect with each other, or maybe have the decency to have slightly more beta sheets? honestly, i didn't expect much more than this mess.

predicted protein structures:

cavetown protein cartoon representation

yeule protein cartoon representation

[lyculuscaelus]

You must have noticed a certain pattern in these lyrics from EPIC: the Musical:

“Do what I/say and you’ll/see them a/gain—‘yes sir’”

“Teucer will/shoot any/ambush at/tack and”

“Why are my/eyes and my/heart and my/soul so/heavy” ”I keep on/tryin' to em/brace you both/why won’t you/let me”

“Here in the/root of this/flower there/lies such a/power to/take her on You must con/sume and di/gest it then/you’ll mani/fest a (being)”

“(We’ve) suffered and/sailed through the/toughest of/hells now you/tell us our/effort’s for/nothing?”

“Dangerous/oceans and/beaches I’ll/go where Po/seidon won’t/reach us”

“(While) you were so/focused on/turning my/men into (snacks)”

“(Sirens) know a/bout every/route and ho/rizon Now I know/how to get/back to my/island”

“There is no/price he won’t (pay)” “I am not/letting you/get in my (way)”

… (I remember finding more but can’t pull them from my vague memory. I’ll add some when I recall. You all are welcome to help, of course!)

Had to appreciate this specific prosodic element in Epic. All the chains of dactyls+the spondee at the end really remind you of the epic it’s based on—the Odyssey, an epic poem in dactylic hexameter.

An example for your curiosity:

ἦμος δ᾽ ἠριγένεια φάνη ῥοδοδάκτυλος Ἠώς, Now check this out: ἦ-μος /δ᾽ ἠ-ρι-γέ/νει-α φά/νη ῥο-δο/δάκ-τυ-λος /Ἠ-ώς, ‒ ‒ | ‒ ⏑ ⏑| ‒ ⏑ ⏑| ‒ ⏑ ⏑| ‒ ⏑ ⏑ | ‒ ‒ “When the early-born rosy-fingered Dawn appeared”

(Check the tags for more info)

[nobodysdaydreams]

If you love the plot of the musical “Newsies” but wish it was less serious, didn’t have a happy ending, was set in a fictional dystopia instead of New York in 1899, had more murder in it, and was about a drought, then boy do I have the musical for you.

And on the flip side, if you love the plot of the musical “Urinetown” but wish it was less comedic, didn’t have a sad ending, was set in New York in 1899 instead of a fictional dystopia, had less murder in it, and was about newspapers, then boy do I also have the musical for you.

[roychewtoy]

[paradoxbeta]

thought tumblr might like this: audio taken from driving in an underground tunnel. the second one is clearer

most of the power is in the bass, so playing on speakers may considerably weaken the sound

[theflyinghydreigon]

Honestly one of the reasons I really like Epic: The Musical is because it reminds me of when I first read the Odyssey. I was a freshman in highschool English class and I wasn’t doing great. Probably one of the worst points in my life. I was one of the very few people in my class who enjoyed the Odyssey and it was awkward to have conversations with people in (or out of) class because of that (among other things).

I just didn’t have a lot that I could talk about with my peers. During highschool — especially the beginning — I was a socially isolated depressed autistic kid. Now I get to be excited again! People get it! People want to talk about it! It’s made people want to read the Odyssey!

I just think it’s really special to have a book be enjoyed for thousands of years (And taught in schools that long too). There could’ve been people casually doing exactly what we are right now. Annoying their friends with poems, songs, drawings, literary comparisons… it’s something special to continue such a long tradition. Odysseus has been my special little guy for 9-10 years now and I’m so happy other people like him too. I don’t have to feel alone anymore :)

[wassupmygays]

somethin somethin both of Soda's main songs in the musical have him playing the mediator between pony and darry in some way, its just not as directly as him trying to stop them from fighting. he is the messenger, the middle man, the voice of either of their thoughts to the other.

in Throwing In The Towel, he's trying to convince Darry how much pony loves and needs him, how much Soda loves and needs him. he is trying desperately to explain Ponyboy's point of view to Darry

and in Soda's Letter, its the opposite. soda is the voice to Darry's thoughts, because they both know ponyboy will listen better to something that comes from soda. so he writes about Darry's perspective and love for ponyboy, to try and convince pony of darry's love that soda sees.

in both songs, hes just trying to convince either darry or ponyboy that the other loves and needs them. because soda sees both of them, he knows how each one is feeling, he just has to get them to understand the other. and he thinks maybe it works, until they start fighting again and then he's the one to break down. and he finally gets to explain to and yell at both of them at the same time. so he doesnt have to play the middle man again, like hes done the whole play

[gagliandi]

Music and Lyrics

Music and Lyrics: How They Grow Together(Inspired by Jack Perricone’s Great Songwriting Techniques)For some artists, music comes before words. A simple chord progression can create a certain mood, emotion, or rhythm that leads to a melody, and eventually, to coherent lyrics.Starting with the MelodyMany songwriters find themselves humming a short musical phrase (often with made-up syllables) long…

[sic-vita]

"I thought a castle would be a suitable substitute for a home, and mandatory displays of respect would be a suitable substitute for human affection. You were treated like a queen but you were my hostage, Genny what the hell did we think was going to happen?"

inspired by this post by @badsalmonella

[a-bottle-of-tyelenol]

I definitely get why people want more screen time with the crew and individual crew members (Perimedes, for example), but I actually kind of like the fact that we don’t know very many of them and we don’t hear any of them by name except Polites and Eurylochus.

(This can be seen as a continuation of this post where I talk about Odysseus seeing himself as above man and, therefore, above his crew.)

I have my own personal headcanon that Odysseus knows each of his men personally and by name, even those not on his specific ship, but I do think that having them as this unknown, unnamed blob of a force reenforces the me vs them conflict that Odysseus has.

Eurylochus is the voice of the crew and it makes sense that the crew wouldn’t bother Odysseus directly with things. He’s busy and it’s Eurylochus’ job to handle the unimportant stuff. But it means that Odysseus is separated from his men in more ways than one. He’s of royal blood (while most, if not all, of his men are not), he’s a war hero that will forever be remembered (while his men will forever be the vague title of ‘Odysseus’ crew’— iirc, this is actually why they open the windbag in the Odyssey, because they don’t think it’s fair that he gets the glory AND riches), and he’s the captain (while the rest of them have to follow his every order even when he refuses to listen to anyone but himself). He is inherently detached and singled out from the rest of the crew that are considered, both by the narrative and by the meta-ness of how EPIC is written, to be one singular entity.

“You relied on wit and then we died on it.”

The crew could’ve said “they died on it”, obviously pointing to Scylla’s victims and maybe even references those who died to Poseidon, but they wouldn’t because they are connected in a way that Odysseus does not relate to. This is, personally, also why I think that Odysseus is wrong when he says that Eurylochus would’ve done the same thing he did. People like to point to Circe’s island to say that Eury would’ve, but I disagree. Circe’s island is something entirely different and context matters here.

Eurylochus would’ve NEVER intentionally sacrificed anyone to get back home. To him, it’s better to have died together— which does add an interesting layer to him hurting Helios’ cattle. If Zeus had posed his ultimatum to Eurylochus instead of Odysseus, Eury would’ve picked himself to die every single time regardless of his own guilt or fault in the situation. And, to be honest, I think a lot of the crew would’ve too. These are selfish men, yes, but they are also men who would rather die of honor as brothers than disgrace themselves, especially because they’d know that getting home alone would be basically impossible anyways.

I bring this up because it’s yet another showing of how Odysseus is set apart from the others. “If you want all the power, you must carry all the blame” isn’t Eurylochus attempting to deflect from what he’s done with the windbag— he already thought Odysseus forgave him/moved on from that. He is specifically commenting on the fact that Odysseus made this decision without consulting any of them— something that Eurylochus didn’t do, with the windbag or on Circe’s island, and would never do because, again, the crew stands as a collective and they, along with the narrative, views each other as extensions of themselves.

The crew is so betrayed by what Odysseus did because they consider themselves to be a family, warriors in arms that will die for each other, and since going to the Underworld, Odysseus just doesn’t understand it. I sincerely believe that, had Odysseus told them and laid out the situation they were in, there would have been six men willing to volunteer themselves if there was truly no other way. Hell, Eurylochus might’ve even been one of them just to get as many of his friends home as possible.

I think that Odysseus is fundamentally different in how he views himself vs the crew and ‘Monster’ put the final nail in the coffin. I doubt it was intentional or anything more than the unfortunate reality that Jorge just didn’t have time or space for more content about the crew, but I think reducing them to a collective that stands behind Eurylochus from Odysseus’ perspective really works. In the early stages of the show, it highlights the foreshadowing within ‘Luck Runs Out’ and, as the show goes on, it really shows how Odysseus refuses to stand with them.

I particularly like that Mutiny’s blocking directions say that Eurylochus looks around at the gore while Odysseus keeps his back to it and the crew. I imagine a lot of scenes where Odysseus’ back can face Eury/the crew and it being symbolic of this dynamic— when the crew is distrustful in ‘Keep Your Friends Close’, when Eury is trying to admit that he opened the windbag in ‘Puppeteer’ and when he actually admits it in ‘Scylla’, when Eury is trying to convince Odysseus not to fight Circe, when he orders them to kill the sirens, when Zeus strikes them all down, ect.

Anyways, I don’t have any real way to end this. I do totally get people wishing there was more an emotional impact on the death of the crew for the audience, but I don’t really think it’s all that necessary and I like the implications that come from demoting the crew into being a singular ensemble entity.

[marlenacantswim]

guy very into musical theatre who mistakingly thinks they're connecting with me over a shared interest: yeah, weber is foundational and all, but i've always felt more of a connection with what starkid's got going on, y'know?

me, who's only ever listened to tracks from the musical episode of Psych: uhhhhhhhhh... hello my name is shawn spencer? this is my partner, lil' wayne? the evidence is underwhelming? but my intuition is insane?