u/jiminiminimini

This would be an awesome puzzle game! Black wins in 3 moves, but the board is all mangled up :)

Edit: It already is :) I didn't see it, I thought it was just procedurally generated visuals. Whishlisted.

Roommates?

I know why. It's capitalism.

Pipboyman

It is insane how cool looking this game is. I am amazed every time I see a new update. Fantastic job!

This is fantastic. We are trying to build a Wave Field Synthesis array at my university and the huge number of channels is the most painful hurdle. Dante hardware is way too expensive. Great job. Looking forward to see the release.

I fucking hate the phrase "consuming content".

Europe - The birthplace of European music.

I really hate the entire IP system. It is broken.

YouTube randomly recommended this video to me. I am not even interested in cars but at some point the guy talks about billionaire techbros vs the robber barons of the gilded age.

edit: "selfishness" section here

Just flip-a the script. 🤌

What's with the original title? "raising questions about whether the response was appropriate given their ages". What questions? Are you fucking insane? Who the fuck would have any questions in their mind about this? The cop literally hit a child with his car! ACAB!

This is his answer for anyone curious.

If anyone is interested, I would suggest Bestenigar Taksim and Pesrev from this playlist. "Taksim" is sort of an improvised introduction to the Makam. Pesrev is the actual composition.

I was distracted by the fact that the time signature was notated as 6/8 where it should have been 3/4 and didn't even notice that.

Well, they are all great questions if you don't know.

you'll be sleepin' with the fishes

Fish in question:

https://preview.redd.it/tb33z0255wnh1.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=292175bb49035d0fe979aba887c43488b1c80f0a

I see you are with the "Wayland Mafia" /s

US was one step ahead of the other countries though. Nazis were really "inspired" by US race laws. Some Nazis even found them to be too harsh.

Personally, I love baroque and romantic era music but do not particularly like classical era music. However, when studying composition, it is not always about what I like and dislike. For example, I have learned everything about form from Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. That being said, I just couldn't keep myself from recommending a piece from Bach for you to listen to: Eb minor prelude. Just the prelude though. If you don't like baroque music I doubt that you'd appreciate the fugue. But the prelude has some interesting chords, which are not really chords within this context but none the less...

Also, Bach has a small canon for 8 voices which sounds like it could be a modern minimalist piece, an almost-12-tone fugue. Renaissance composer Ockeghem has a canon for 36 voices, "Deo Gratias", Palestrina's Kyrie from Missa Pro Defunctis is also a great piece. There are lots of interesting and surprising pieces throughout the renaissance and baroque periods, even if your ear is partial to romantic era music.

I think you should definitely listen to more baroque or renaissance era vocal music, depending on the objectives of your class/teacher. Sticking to rules strictly alone wouldn't be enough. You are also learning to recognize and imitate a style. Understanding what makes a style what it is is very important if you want to be a composer.

I was recently talking to a second year composition student who was complaining that his harmony teacher was taking points off based on "aesthetics" even though he was following all the rules of harmony. In his case, harmony lessons were also lessons in "galant style", just like how counterpoint lessons are also lessons in renaissance and/or baroque style, depending on the class.

After learning what all these styles are, what "defines" each style, you will be better equipped to compose in romantic, late romantic, 19th century, serial, post-tonal, or whatever style you want, including a completely different style of your own.

Debussy famously said "There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law". The fact of the matter is, there are no rules in music, but there are tendencies and conventions of different styles and eras. Only when one has a thorough understanding of what that means, one can confidently say things like "Pleasure is the law". Of course Debussy knew all the stylistic tendencies and conventions of western music up to and including his time. That is why he was able to so tastefully break all, or at least most, of them.

This also does not sound stylistic. This is mainly a vocal music. It should be easy to sing. You cannot write a jump of a 7th continued with a step in the same direction.

For this solution: I don't even need to look at the notes. This might sound good to you, or to me, but it does not sound stylistic at all. Nonharmonic, or non-chord, tones have very specific rules and types (see this interactive lesson).

Let me start with a disclaimer. The following is entirely my opinion:

First off, this is "strict" counterpoint. It is for the student to learn to be aware of and to have control over what is going on in all voices and all pairs of voices, etc. Secondly, if you look at the examples in any text book, there is always a hierarchy among the rules of counterpoint. You can see some example solutions of the same c.f. in a textbook saying "this solution is unacceptable, this other solution is passable, this one is better but it still has some slight imperfection" and no perfect solutions. Especially in first species, some c.f. do not have perfect solutions. You need to be able to move through some passing notes to make the solution sound good while following all the rules.

Also, when studying counterpoint or harmony, you are learning to compose in a given style. That means, "sounds good to my ears" is not good enough. It should be "sounds within the style". If you are learning modal counterpoint it should, roughly, sound like Palestrina, if you are learning tonal counterpoint it should sound like Bach. This is an oversimplification of course.

So, you should try to follow all the rules, since this is "strict" counterpoint for the student to learn some fundamentals about controlling multiple independent voices. You should (not "you may"), break less important rules if it makes the solution sound "within the style" and you should be able to explain why you broke that rule, even point to some similar examples in the repertoire. It is like engineering in some aspects. Engineers, through experience, learn to deem some measurements "negligable", round some numbers off, but demand the highest precision for some other measurements while building/designing anything.

Hope this helped.