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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 28/09/2026

Learning about change ringing and it hurts my brain a little. Very cool though! Kinda like serialism crossed with a maypole dance on church bells.

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 25/09/2026

Trying out the freeform app on my ipad and I think this is how I've always wanted to do brainstorming

a screenshot of my brainstorming page for my setting of Poe's The Bells. Section headings are in large writing with notes clustered around them. The text of the poem is to the left. On the right I've imported a sheet of staff paper.

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comrade ella 🧚🏻‍♀️ @marzipanlord.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

me if i was a 70s surfer guy and i saw some really cool bells: tubular bells dude

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👁️saac 👁️o @eyesack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

what goofus called it "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International" instead of "IP Freely"

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 17/09/2026

Writing mode: activated ✍️✅

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 16/09/2026

20 yo me wouldn't be too impressed. 30 yo me would understand the slump I pulled myself out of and would be... relieved. Impressed isn't really the right word.

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 16/09/2026

I wanted to be in writing mode, but I'm still in stewing mode. Ideas are developing.... slowly. The real trick is understanding the difference between stewing mode and "I can't write anything down unless it's perfect" anxiety

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 15/09/2026

recent news has made me realize I've been getting Ed Sheeran confused with Bo Burnham this whole time

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 12/09/2026

I'm going with the Bells (bells bells bells bells bells bells)

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 12/09/2026

I've decided it's time to work in earnest on a choral/orchestral project. I have two ideas for medium-sized pieces that I've done some work on in the past and might like to pick up again: Idea 1: the Beatitudes in Latin Idea 2: Poe's The Bells Just haven't decided which...

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There’s something very moving about the apparent simplicity of Pärt’s music. But the complexity and tension increase as the underlying canon gradually pulls us into a spiral we cannot escape. youtu.be/sp2oxWdRMuk?...

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Arvo Pärt, Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

YouTube video by Thomas Turner

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 10/09/2026

This will be my fourth annual Notevember challenge! One small musical creation every day of November. I don't have prizes or anything, just some prompts I came up with using a random word generator

Notevember 2026 prompts:
1 adventure - 2 bubble - 3 rainbow - 4 chocolate - 5 mushroom - 6 cassette - 7 cake - 8 penny - 9 echo - 10 oak - 11 queen - 12 embrace - 13 reflection - 14 spin - 15 deer - 16 electronic - 17 champagne - 18 tower - 19 star - 20 launch - 21 orbit - 22 alarm - 23 houseplant - 24 kettle - 25 glacier - 26 ladybug - 27 wilderness - 28 glow - 29 cherry - 30 listen

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Her Piano Quartet was written in 1908 when she was just 23. It’s written in a late romantic style with flowing tunes and a rich, warm texture. If you haven’t yet discovered her music, this is a beautiful place to start. youtu.be/dZy81a57JYQ?...

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Dora Pejačević - Piano quartet in D minor, Op. 25

YouTube video by Quarteto Boulanger

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Woman Pianist and a Violinist - 1887 botfrens.com/collections/46/content…

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👁️saac 👁️o @eyesack.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Bulgarian folk music is the original math rock www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDg5...

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Bulgarska Suita (Bulgarian Suite)

YouTube video by Nonesuch Explorer Series - Topic

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This one should scroll 🤔

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 10/09/2026

I'm trying to be a real composer. I've written some pretty good music, I think! Maybe one of these days I'll even make some money!

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

God, what have you done? I've a meat clarinet From my lips to my lungs oh mama My windpipe and tongue Are a meat clarinet (the bassoon is my bum)

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Beanewood Commafurbatch Ending @beanedictc.dftba.social · 05/09/2026

🎶 Meat clarinet, I'm gonna keep on singing with my meat clarinet, I'm gonna keep on singing with this wet tube flesh, I'm gonna keep on singing with my meat clarinet, Meat clarinet 🎶

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

they’ll never take away our weird art, amen

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no context sacred harp @sacredharpbot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

All living things and lands are gay —

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 23/08/2026

A5: If you notice me having trouble with a noisy environment, often the best way to help is just let me deal with it using the methods I've developed over time, and to keep your own noise to a minimum. Making a fuss about it usually just makes things worse for me. #AutChat

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 23/08/2026

A4: Various methods of blocking the noise, earplugs, noise-cancelling headphones, white noise to a certain extent, but then sometimes that bothers me too 🤣😭 In choir I sit a row behind everyone else, which helps too. #AutChat

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 23/08/2026

A2: I almost don't have a social life anymore. Being around people is so difficult and exhausting, it's easier not to bother. It's much worse now. I've always been sensitive, but it's been in the last 10 years or so that it's gotten really bad. Also whoops I've been forgetting to tag #AutChat

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 23/08/2026

A1: I have a lot of trouble in choir rehearsal, where I alternately need to have full use of my hearing (when we're singing, when the director is talking) and need to block out noise (when anyone else is talking) I've got special adjustable-volume earplugs, but it's still difficult

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 23/08/2026

A0: Hi, I'm Emily, a composer who hears too much in a very noisy world

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Phil Gentry @pmgentry.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Philip 👏Glass👏jokes 👏require👏an👏additive👏process👏not👏just👏repetition.

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full. Pessimist: the cup is half empty. Musician: [running a finger around the rim] the cup is out of tune :/

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/08/2026

I tell people all the time that I got lucky with my career and it annoys a lot of them. "No, but you're good," they will say, and I will say, yes, I am good, and also here are all these people who write as well as I do but did not get the same break, so being good isn't the issue, being lucky is.

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 20/08/2026

I did a research project on legendary child prodigies and found that the secret sauce was having parents who provided them with the best musical education possible and connections to a professional network that gave them opportunities That’s it that’s the secret, it’s just access

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 20/08/2026

What I want to write more than anything is choral/orchestral music, and I know getting that performed is a pipe dream, but what can I do, it's what I want to write

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

1) Composers almost never get the opportunity to write large orchestral works 2) If you're unfathomably lucky enough to get such an opportunity, it will almost certainly be performed once and only once 3) There is no mechanism in the orchestral community for building enduring repertoire

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Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"Although I haven’t crunched the actual numbers, the works from the youngest 3 generations are rarely the headliner piece after intermission. This must have some impact on what living composers choose to write and how long those pieces are." or, How Modern Orchestras Killed the Symphonic Tradition

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 19/08/2026

the Bible, by which I mean Lerdahl and Jackendoff's Generative Theory of Tonal Music, belongs in the classroom

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 18/08/2026

This is @musicologyduck.bsky.social's side of the world and we are all merely guests

a screenshot from x posted to tumblr by hometoursandotherstuff:
tweet from CuriosityonX: You mean to tell me weve been living on a duck this whole time? Now it all makes sense. [map of North/South America and Greenland rotated counterclockwise, which looks like a duck. a googly eye has been placed over Brazil]
quote retweet [username cropped out]: How do we discover new things every day
reblog addition by bowditch: "how fleeting are all human passions compared to the massive continuity of ducks"

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Orchestration Online @orchestrationol.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

CARMINA BURANA POCKET GUIDE VIIa. ORFF'S QUINTAL HARMONY The most fascinating textural moment excerpted from my latest Carmina Burana Score Analysis video: a fully-diagrammed breakdown of the harmony from the baritone's vocal cadenza in Dies, Nox et Omnia. www.youtube.com/shorts/1RWK-...

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Carmina Burana Pocket Guide 7A: Orff's Quintal Harmony

YouTube video by OrchestrationOnline

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 14/08/2026

I have my phone automatically set to full volume when it's connected to my car audio so that I can have maximum control of the volume via the car's volume knob.

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 13/08/2026

(didididididididididididididididi) bup-bummm bummm bup-bummm ba-da-da-da-dummm bummm bup-bum ba-da-dA-DA DUMM-BA-DUT-DAAAA-DAAAA!

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 12/08/2026

is it patience or resignation? anyway this was interesting! quiz is here: undertale.jadenthejaded.uk

quiz result that says i have a light blue soul (i would say that's cyan) and that my greatest virtue is patience

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 05/08/2026

Finally gave up the fight over vertical space and just made the staff size smaller, but of course that means now I have to redo all the formatting 😮‍💨

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 04/08/2026

Ah yes, an old favorite <3

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 02/08/2026

Oh no I've been looking through my draft while listening to a recording and now I'm trying to figure out how to fit like 1000 more things into the piano reduction bc Debussy has like 5 different things going on at any given moment and his orchestration is so transparent you can hear all of it

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