Bottom post of the previous page:
Possibly for the same reason I tend to smirk at this:
Bottom post of the previous page:
Possibly for the same reason I tend to smirk at this:
Well, it was already bad by that point, I guess. I suppose you know the story well enough, but if enough else don't, here's a read-up on Bolero, Ravel, the piano concert and his dementia: https://www.nature.com/news/2002/020122 ... 121-1.html
Nice one, thank you.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_House_of_SoundsM. P. Shiel wrote:“In the name of all that is sinister,” I whispered, “what thing is this?”
John Keats wrote:A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
Jesper Hvid wrote: ↑8 years ago
Not quite your usual baroque job.
The following to be taken with the obligatory grain of salt:
This was the music a probably tone-deaf H. P. Lovecraft imagined for his tale of Erich Zann! Like the Colour out of Space, this was the tune from another dimension. Things beyond mortal comprehension. At least we can attempt to put into words that which we cannot understand with our mere five senses.Bobbie Kom wrote:The story behind “Devil’s Trill” starts with a dream. Tartini allegedly told the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande that he dreamt that the Devil appeared to him and asked to be his servant. At the end of their lessons Tartini handed the devil his violin to test his skill—the Devil immediately began to play with such virtuosity that Tartini felt his breath taken away. When the composer awoke he immediately jotted down the sonata, desperately trying to recapture what he had heard in the dream. Despite the sonata being successful with his audiences, Tartini lamented that the piece was still far from what he had heard in his dream. What he had written was, in his own words: “so inferior to what I had heard, that if I could have subsisted on other means, I would have broken my violin and abandoned music forever.”
And, BTW, note the position of the fingers on the Devil's left hand...
I've overturned a few jars in my time, and there used to be quite a lot of spirits in them, if you see what I mean.The Vodnik (or Water Goblin) is an elemental spirit who lives in lakes and rivers. He drowns people and keeps their souls in overturned glass jars.