breathethedownbow:

fyeahclassicalcomposers:

I dunno if you guys could tell, but I’m very into the lives of the Schumanns, and as an extension, Brahms, and I did a lot of research over a year about their stories and works and everything, and even incorporated a lot of those elements into my writing (including the names of people I mention henceforth)

So the other day we were assigned this academic reading in theory and I just completely lost my, excuse me, shit, because this guy decided that theory papers, especially those on metrical theory, were too boring so he wrote it as Eusebius, Raro, and Florestan, AKA Robert Schumann’s alternate personalities with which he wrote music reviews (most likely before his mental health began to take a turn) and potentially even pieces (afterwards)

The premise is that the theorist’s piece on metrical dissonance in Schumann’s works has been sent back through time and Eusebius and Florestan are reading it and commenting on it and if you think musicians or theorists are boring you better open your eyes for Johannes Brahms’ sake

and now you know I am not joking

but as you can see

there’s a reason I’m losing my shit

holy mother of Franz Liszt

coffee freaking models of dissonance

you thought you nightblogged huh

we are Chiarina

music theory fanfiction

complete with ship

(source)

(background: in my NaNo 2011 novel, three of the characters were Raro, Eusebius, and Florestan and I just I cannot handle this)