throw your favorite classical works at me
[poetry, novels, quotes, paintings, sculptures, structures, music, ect.]
plato is pretty fun, particularly the early socratic stuff
socrates is such a dick
https://youtu.be/X9Dh43kVL1Q
>>1230802
oh my god, that tune is beautiful.
I like Liebestraum, if I must pick a favorite composition.
This cantata illustrates perfectly the baroque concept of word painting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBRzaDxyLeE
In the first part, accompaning the verse
>Siehe, ich will viel Fischer aussenden (Behold, I will send many fishermen).
the strings fluidly play arpeggios, like the flowing of a river.
In the second part (of the same aria), starting at 4:15, to the words
>Und darnach will ich viel Jäger aussenden (and then I will send many hunters).
come in the horns (which were silent until now). Now horns were using in hunting back then, so the contemporary listener would immediately make the association between horns and hunters.
The singer is a bass because it is meant to be God speaking. In Bach's cantatas, Jesus, God, etc. is always sung by a bass because the tenor was considered too unmanly to represent God.
>>1230971
>arpeggios
Scratch that and read that as triplets
