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Anyway I remembered what it was after I went to take a shower. Now I have two different contrasting ideas. lol
Apparently it got overshadowed on Twitter by Merlin returning to Fate/Grand Order. (It's specifically "Merlin" spelled in Japanese so probably wasn't the anniversary of the BBC show)
She has done like three anime OPs, ever. Even ayu has more ota cred than her.
Every good thing comes from Eurovision.
The only problem with me sharing the MuseScore MIDI version is that it horribly mangles the dynamics -- forte is WAY louder than piano. Also it has no sense to balance the hands properly -- the repeated left-hand notes are way louder than they should be.
Well, here's to starting another faux-Mozart sonata. Just with a few touches suggesting that it's not Mozart but rather me who likes deliciously rich harmonies.
I did finally get to use this little tune that I came up with many, many years ago. It's fit for the last sentence of a section, and it just showed up in my mind in the right place at the right time.
This was admittedly directly inspired by my thinking about Joseph Haydn's Piano Concerto in F major, Hoboken catalogue number XVIII:F1. Especially the finale.
I played this as a kid. It was strange and long to me as a kid. It was the third concerto I learned, or more like the first real concerto because the first two were actually divertimenti by Haydn (i.e. shorter multi-movement pieces for soloist and orchestra). I never got to perform this anywhere. But honestly, this is a really pleasant piece to listen to, and I'm quite fond of it.
Unlike those two divertimenti, Haydn's authorship of this concerto is considered spurious -- meaning that people aren't sure that he actually wrote this. Still, it's a nice piece, and I like it.
For anyone who's interested in getting a full score, it looks like it may be available here: http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/concerto-for-piano-in-f-hob-xviii-f1-spurious-actual-title-sechs-leichte-clavierconcerte-no-6-sheet-music/3227994
holy shit this is a goldmine
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* Australia - Waltzing Matilda
* Costa Rica - Patriótica Costarricense
* United States - God Bless America
Also, the fact that God Save the Queen always makes it to those "top n national anthems" lists but Up on the Young Rhine never does is proof that those lists are proxies for how "popular" a country is.
This is pretty.
Also, another one:
* Poland - Droga do Warszawy
To elaborate; I'm not a fan of the current trend in American pop where less than half of the song is vocals, and the "music" kind of just sounds like lots of wounded animals crying over and over or some sort of summoning ritual for bland spirits (ie, neither good, nor evil).
At the same time, I'm also sick of soulful vocalists who dominate so much that the backing track is just a dull, lifeless thing. In fact, I'm not a huge fan of people who can sing too well, but that's the only thing I keep finding when I go out looking for music in English.
Can you give examples of these things?
How Far I'll Go by Alessia Cara (I know the movie version is less like this but who cares about classical Disney movie music)
Why by Sabrina Carpenter (in fact this list could be a whole bunch of Sabrina Carpenter songs, see also; On Purpose)
Something Just Like This by Coldplay and The Chainsmokers, and also The Chainsmokers in general
Literally everything where it's "DJ1 and DJ2 featuring [Artist x] and [Artist y] with a rap cameo by [Artist z]"
Meaghan. Trainor.
Post-RACEDAY Grace Mitchell
Ed Sheeran
I'm not sure where on this dichotomy Ed Sheeran's Shape of You falls but man that song is bad.
In related news, I finally got TOHOSHINKI's FINE COLLECTION ~Begin Again~ (everybody is allowed one Symphogear joke).
datingcollaborating, Shimizu Shota seems to be trying to follow Kato Miliyah's imechens as closely as possible.Fresh Style Normal Miliyah > Strung Out Glam Pop Miliyah
Fresh Style Normal Shota > Strung Out Glam Pop Shota
Clearly next are Maximum Boho Shota and "My Clothing is Flowers" Shota.
There's lots more, but I feel like these songs never get the attention they deserve (even from me a lot of the time)
But this cover seems to be actually pretty good.
The singing is actually mostly in tune and follows the right notes. And the accompaniment MIDI is mostly faithful to the original song, especially the harmonies. There's this one G#m chord that comes up a few times and it's not in the original, but it kinda works like this too, so it's not a dealbreaker. And the instrumentation is just piano, which is basically the original's instrumentation (it was backed by guitar and drums, but the piano was most of it); if anything, it's missing reverb more than the other backing instruments.