Music Major Life

[video description: clips from an orchestral performance that focus on beibei wang, playing various percussion instruments partially submerged in large bowls of water. she also strikes the surface of the water with her palm to produce percussion sounds, and at one point lifts a large colander from out of one of the bowls of water, so lots of water streams through it. end description.]

hey that's pretty cool. what's with the turrets

@classical-crap

this is the future liberals want

Or maybe the future that composition majors want…

I studied composition in college and that is DEFINITELY not the future I want thanks.

My person favourites are 2/6 and 64/128

As a music major I can officially say I have never played in EITHER of those meters and if you told me to, I would Leave. 

I checked yesterday and the 2nd violin part is the only part with this time signature instead of 2/4 lol 2nd violins are just special 

summoning the will to open the violin case after 7 months

it was still in tune 😭😭😭😭😭

summoning the will to open the violin case after 7 months

it was still in tune 😭😭😭😭😭

Just realized that this September will be the ten-year anniversary of when I first became a music major - I'm a whole ass music teacher and resident artist now. Wild.

Is a tiny cat playing a harp blasé to you people?? You don't even have time to give her a little like for her recital 🥺?

[Tiktok: white text asking “Musicians, what instruments do you play?” Cuts to a man asking the question aloud. Cuts to another man in a pink shirt who proceeds to play ‘Fireflies’ by Owl City on a seemingly unending series of instruments, initially only doing one note of the song per instrument.]

video ID loses points for not mentioning that the rendition of Fireflies is ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS

Back in the day, this guy could have made some serious money playing in orchestras for movie soundtracks. (It’s mostly done with synths now and it’s kind of a dead art.) One of my music profs in college used to play on film soundtracks for a living and he explained that they would pay you per instrument. So the more stuff you could play, the more you would get. The loophole he constantly exploited as a guitar player is that every effects pedal counted as a separate instrument for some reason.