best moments in classical music

you-had-me-at-e-flat-major:

(imo obviously)

  • the four bars of intense polyphony in the finale of the jupiter symphony
  • the interrupted cadences and resolutions in the kyrie and lux aeterna of the mozart requiem
  • the plottwistwe’rehypeaf beginning of tchaik 4 movement 4
  • the transition from Nacht to Sonnenaufgang in Eine Alpensinfonie
  • the modulation to D major in Till Eulenspiegel right before it switches to the funeral march
  • the buildup and climax (cadence) of the Vorspiel to Meistersinger
  • the Bm/C# climax in movement 5 of mahler 2 (although there are lots of dissonant climaxes in mahler 2 that are nice af)
  • the one consonant climax in mahler 2 at aufersteh’n
  • the tierce de picardie in the finale of dvorák 9
  • the joining of the two melodies in the 2nd movement of shosty 1
  • the moment in shosty 7 when it finally stops playing the repeated military motif
  • the finale of shosty 7 where it reaches C “major” again
  • most of the cadences in shosty festive overture
  • the joining of the two melodies in the march from holst suite in E-flat
  • the scream chord close to the end of uranus from the planets suite
  • the innocent woodblock in the middle of slava! overture all on its own
  • the modal-bach-chorale finale of maslanka’s give us this day

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padmaynaberrie:

The UK and US distracting themselves with memes while their countries fall apart.

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slavery:

18nth:

slavery:

She’s like the employee of the month but in my heart

corny! 

I love my girl fuck off

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frequentlypolitical:

I feel like women with depression are still expected to be polite and pretend to be happy in order to keep others happy, while men with depression get to be openly miserable and even rude and their depression can be an excuse for whatever bad behaviour they engage in.

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halfdesiqueen:

did anybody ever know what was going on with education standards in hogwarts

like aside from math being a FUCKING ELECTIVE, is what lockhart’s second years learned completely different from what lupin’s second years learned? and like what were the OWL and NEWT scores for lockhart’s year? did snape cover the same material as slughorn because there was at least some bare bones standards for what had to be covered every year? were transfiguration and charms and herbology the only classes to be graded consistently and fairly? did anyone actually know what they were doing? was dumbledore just playing video games up in his office?

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18thcentury-turnt:

morelikecreamhuff:

nethilia:

nopeabsolutelynot:

fangirlingoverdemigods:

tyleroakley:

peacelovelesbian:

libby-on-the-label:

busterposeys:

at what point in history do you think americans stopped having british accents

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Actually, Americans still have the original British accent. We kept it over time and Britain didn’t. What we currently coin as a British accent developed in England during the 19th century among the upper class as a symbol of status. Historians often claim that Shakespeare sounds better in an American accent.

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whAT THE FUCK

I’m too tired for this

Always add in the video that according to linguists, Native southern drawl is a slowed down British.

T’ be or not t’be, y’all.

Fun fact: Same thing happened with the French accent. French Canadians still have the original French accent from the 15th century.

Êt’e ou n’pô zêt’e, vous z’auts.

I’ve been trying to find this post for months. I’m freakishly obsessed with this and want the truth of what early colonists sounded like.

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