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

Sometimes I write out the rhythms before I really know what all the notes are gonna be

some rhythms I've written out for my setting of Poe's The Bells, with text from the fourth stanza of the poem

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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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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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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 26/08/2026

Happy birthday! I have no cat, so here's an "ah yes, the three genders"

a store display that says "Sleep/Pain/Kids"

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

oh i didn't see that one! but i did pick one with a fun creature on it

sticker with a googly-eyed creature wearing a party hat that says "hooray!! I voted!"

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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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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 · 09/08/2026

couldn't tell you a specific species, but hummingbirds are just so pretty

a blue-green colored hummingbird perched on a branch

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

Oh, and I did try out three staves for rehearsal 10 to get that trumpet melody in there (formatting's still a little wonky)

piano/vocal edition of Debussy's Nocturnes, movement 3, "Sirènes", mm. 111-114

piano/vocal edition of Debussy's Nocturnes, movement 3, "Sirènes", mm. 115-118

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 27/07/2026

putting a weird slur of my own in my edition

excerpt from my forthcoming piano/vocal edition of Debussy' Nocturnes, movement 3, "Sirènes", m. 120, featuring a slur that crosses from the lower staff to the upper staff of the piano part

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 27/07/2026

very diminuendo so softer wow

an excerpt from Debussy's Nocturnes, movement 3, "Sirènes," m. 86 in which the trumpet part is marked "très dim."

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 24/07/2026

I need people to witness this slur

A screenshot from Ravel's 2 piano reduction of Debussy's Nocturnes, movement 3, "Sirènes" mm. 48-49, featuring a slur that starts on the lower staff, shimmies between two pitches a step apart, crosses to the upper staff, snaking around a crescendo, and AGAIN shimmies between two pitches a step apart, before ending above the upper staff

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 11/07/2026

at what point does a key signature become counterproductive?

an excerpt from "Sirènes", the third movement of Debussy's Nocturnes, in which a key signature of six flats is rendered completely useless, since every note is either sharp or natural

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 18/06/2026

anyway here's the tune without the words

an excerpt from my piece, Hope. After the sopranos sing "never stops at all," the full chorus sings a "tune without the words" on an ah vowel

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 18/06/2026

Maybe I was born to write this piece

from the cover of my setting of Emily Dickinson's "Hope is the thing with feathers", a title reading "Hope for SATB Chorus and Piano by Emily Hope, text by Emily Dickinson"

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 19/03/2026

It's hexatonic, it's got two augmented seconds, and it's symmetrical on the D/G sharp axis (in this transposition)

note names of a hexatonic scale: G, A, B flat, C sharp, E flat, F sharp, G
intervals between notes (in steps): 1, 1/2, 1 1/2, 1, 1 1/2, 1/2

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 06/03/2026

See this is why when you write for chorus the dynamics go ABOVE the staff

an excerpt from Daphnis et Chloé by Maurice Ravel, starting at the second measure of rehearsal 1. The chorus is given the lyric "A" at a dynamic of piano, but since the dynamic marking is placed below the staff just before the lyric, it looks like it says "pA"

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 27/08/2025

Figure 2 in "stuff they just drew by hand into my printed score"

a whole rest in the second clarinet part in m. 50 of the finale of Beethoven's 9th symphony with a ledger line drawn by hand (I know the measure number because I'm writing them in now)

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 26/08/2025

w/o downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

A black cat with a very small white patch on their chest crouches on the curb beside a dingy parking lot, looking at a person in a nearby car (me).

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 26/08/2025

Guess who gets to sing this line with the tenors and bases 😎

a line from the finale of Beethoven's 9th symphony, beginning with the words "Brüder! über'm Sternenzelt", sung by tenors and bases (and also by me, a contralto)

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 21/08/2025

I suppose this is what I get for buying the cheapest edition I could find. Stay classy, Dover

Labeled staves at the beginning of the prestissimo section near the end of the finale of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. The two horn staves are joined by a hand-drawn bracket. This is how it's printed in the score. I did not draw this bracket.

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 20/08/2025

For the past few years I've been setting a challenge for myself that I call "Notevember". It's like Inktober but for music and in November. I made a logo:

The word "Notevember" in red on a musical staff with a treble clef. The letter o is replaced by a whole note.

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 20/08/2025

Two horns sharing a staff in the most generous possible sense of the word "share" (from the finale of Beethoven's 9th) (I'd give measure numbers but they're not written in here and I'm not counting all of that)

an excerpt from the finale of Beethoven's 9th symphony showing the first and second horns in D. The first horn is playing around the top of the (treble clef) staff, while the second is playing a repeated low C several ledger lines below the staff.

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 30/07/2025

I did finally get them out back together, after giving up last night and trying again this morning. Also there were stickers that came with the repair kit so that's fun

The right ear cup of my headphones, which are fixed now and I have a sticker that says so

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 30/07/2025

Ok what I failed to mention just now was that somehow in the middle of all of this I managed to unseat this little pivot thing that now is proving tricky to re-seat. Also I'm this picture you can see where that little plastic piece came from (to the right of the white strip)

The right ear cup of my headphones, which came open in a way I didn't intend

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 30/07/2025

Ok well I STILL couldn't open it all the way, but I did open it enough that this lil guy fell out, and since I don't hear anything knocking around in there anymore, I believe this is the culprit! Now let's see if I can put this all back together.....

A very tiny piece of plastic broken off from somewhere inside my headphones now sits in the palm of my hand

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 30/07/2025

AHA!!!!! I pried it open at a slightly different place and I found: more screws!

The right ear cup of a pair of noise-cancelling headphones. An outer ring cover has been removed to reveal four small screws.

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 24/07/2025

I think I might be able to open the ear cup and secure that loose part, but it looks like I need a very small screwdriver with a triangular tip??? This will require more research.....

close-up of a pair of noise-cancelling headphones with one of the ear cups folded and rotated so you can see the top of it, where the parts of the outer shell are fastened together with a small screw with a triangular indentation

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 20/06/2025

Interesting! Here's Chicago:

a graph of temperature change in Chicago since 1850, showing a significant increase particularly in the last 20 years

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 14/06/2025

I'm old enough to remember these

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 05/06/2025

I made a new icon and I'm so proud of it! LOOK! AT WHAT MY HAND HATH WROUGHT!

a picture of a brown bunny smelling an orange flower in a stained glass style

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Emily Hope @emilyhopebunny.com · 28/05/2025

Yes, Dorico, I know this is very out of range for most altos. I am writing this for my fellow lady basses out there just waiting for their chance to shine~*