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ombremad

Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse

Year: 1989
By: Konami Kukeiha Club (Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi, Yukie Morimoto)

The Castlevania series is noteworthy for its baroque-infused tunes. The third major entry in the series for the Famicom went a step further by making use of the VRC6 soundchip, right into the game cartridge. This allowed for deeper saw bass and complex harmonies thanks to the extra audio channels. Unfortunately, this is only true of the Japanese version — the NES counterpart had to be cut down significantly, but still retains some charm thanks to the strong original compositions shining through, as well as some clever adaptation tricks and choices.

Comparisons between the two versions would be worthy of an entire blog post, but for the sake of this selection, I’ll only feature the original Famicom soundtrack here.

By the way, this is not the only time you’ll hear about Castlevania in this thread…

Best picks

Beginning
Clockwork
Mad Forest
Aquarius

Full soundtrack

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on Archive.org (mp3)

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#nowlistening#pouetradio#tootradio
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Alexander Knochel

After three days of fulltime #Bach , I'm even more deeply impressed and moved by the work than before, and I didn't think that was even possible.

Like a fractal, the closer you look the more you discover, and not just on an intellectual level. At one point, we were just slowly played the stacked chords of choir+orchestra to clarify the harmonies, and the whole sequence was such a gorgeous avant garde jazz like harmonic progression that we were speechless what is hidden in plain sight.

#baroque#classicalmusic
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"Still Life with Flowers," Rachel Ruysch, 18th century.

I've talked about Ruysch before, but to recap quickly, she was the best-documented woman painter of her time, with an enormously successful career, getting commissions from many wealthy and influential clients. Poets wrote elegies in honor of her death in 1750, and despite the fact that she specialized in florals, her work was highly praised and fetched high prices after her passing; she even outsold Rembrandt!

The daughter of a scientist and professor of botany, Ruysch depicted plants and flowers with meticulous detail, developing her own style that straddled the line between Baroque and Rococo. Even today, she is regarded as one of the most talented still life artists of all time, bar none.

Happy Flower Friday!

From the Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm.

A Baroque painting of a bouquet of flowers, on a marble tabletop; they sit in a vase or urn that is not visible. The flowers, painstakingly done in great detail, include tulips, carnations, marigolds, dandelions in the puff stage, and others. This is evidently a work of fantasy as the flowers are not ones that would be in bloom at the same time.
#Art#DutchArt#WomanArtists
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Pauliina Lievonen

Thinking back to my baroque bassoon lesson this week - we we’re playing a Ciaccona which had an ENDLESS bass part that left me feeling low on oxygen. Thing about bassoon is it doensn’t require that much air, you can play forever, but at some point the air in your lungs will be stale. My teacher looked at me thoughtfully and said ”in this piece you’ll need to plan where to breath out between notes, not just where to breathe in”.

I play several wind instruments but this was the first time it even entered my head that one might need to plan when to breathe out in addition to where to breathe in. 😅 Proper ”mind blown” moment. 😅 Usually the playing of the instrument is the breathing out part!

Oboists feel free to laugh at me. 😁

#bassoon#oboe#baroque
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