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I plan on writing piano music and only that. I’m using the free version of musescore which only has “keys” sound not piano.

I heard very fishy things about musehub (bloatware, fishy installs etc.) so was wondering.

1- Is musehub safe? Or is it considered a fishy software?

2- If I only care about piano and plan on staying free not paid, would musehub help download better piano sounds than “key” for free? Because if not then do I have any need for it at all?

3- Is musehub peer-to-peer (p2p)? I live in Japan and p2p type apps (torrent-like apps) can actually get me in trouble somewhat

Thanks!

I’m studying from Open music theory now and they have assignment for each lesson yet for some inexplicable reason the assignment’s answer sheets are only available if you’re an instructor (with a fairly rigorous verification process to make sure you are). So now as a self-taught person, I have to feed the assignments to AI to generate an answer sheet for me but it’s far from the most accurate.

Is there any way I can obtain an answer sheet for the assignments? I can’t see any sense in doing them without being able to verify your answer.

I may be the first mf in Earth’s history who wants to explore Chopin because he was a friend of Liszt (my favorite composer) and not the other way around lol. But somehow, I just cannot understand chopin.

It may be cause I dove too deep into late romantic and just off the heels of Liszt’s programmatic masterpieces (Dante Sonata, Vallee d’obermann etc.), but to me Chopin’s music just sounds like notes consecutively glued together, pretty notes for sure, very pretty, but they don’t form any larger structures (again, could be too spoiled by Liszt and Ravel’s thematic transformation techniques)

So, do you have any recommendation aside from the super famous ones? (Such as the impromptu and raindrop etude etc.) cause I’ll have already heard those.

So far I like his Ballade No. 1 & 3, they’re cool. Etude no. 11 in E flat major is a ton of fun, etude no. 12 in C minor is cool too.

Like, a lot of his stuff is nice, but that’s all it is. “Nice”.

So…can y’all recommend me something of his that you think I may like? Something maybe late-romantic esque? (Though my boy didn’t live to see that period rip)

My top 3 are

Liszt (Late liszt to be specific but flashy liszt can be fun too)
Ravel (everything he has ever touched, not including his gf)
Schubert (The fucking lieders man, the sonatas, I could go on and on)

I’m a refugee from Hearthstone which is the main card game I’ve been playing for a long time, so it’s sort of my frame of reference here but comparing Hearthstone to SV, many things don’t make sense to me

1- The game feels REALLY restrictive.

One of my biggest problems is that every “Deal X damage” single target card necessitates that you MUST choose an enemy! Why??? Why not just have it “Deal X damage to a follower” which would give so much more room for creative play? And almost every single card of that type necessitates an enemy. It’s so bizarrely restrictive for no reason.

2- The decks have no variety

Thinking of hearthstone, every new expansion came with multiple new mechanics (and maybe one main mechanic like “inspire” etc.), yet the latest expansion has…none? Also, there’s SO LITTLE variety in decks, it’s difficult to even make meme decks. In HS one of my fondest memories was playing weird meme and creative decks like thief priest and weapon rogue (before it became OP lmao)

Why not include more sets into every rotation to increase card variety? Also add new mechanics. SV has no weapons, no secrets, no armor, no quest etc. (you basically can never do anything on your opponent’s turn except Burnite), and no hero powers. It makes up for it by evolve and crests but that’s just not enough.

3- 20 defense?

The game’s stats per pp (mana in HS) is very similar to HS yet it has 10 less health. This makes the game much faster. Fine. But maybe don’t print a 1000 different storm minions and have them be the winning condition of 80% of the decks? Like I have no idea what they were thinking when they decided to print a bunch of storm minions for the latest expansion.

4- No cards no life

The game ends if you run out of cards. I get this is a balance for having 40 cards instead of 30 like HS, but I still think it unfortunate. Some of my fondest memories is calculating fatigue damage (in HS you take 1 extra damage every turn without a card) to see if I can kill someone, but I understand it I suppose.

5- Let me see the card art!

When you click on a card while in battle, you see a huge block of text while in HS you see an enlarged version of the card with the full art visible! It’s very entertaining to admire the different arts whereas now I can barely recognize any of them. I understand SV cards have MUCH more words than HS, but I simply do not care. This is a visual design problem that is on them to figure out, but I want to be able to see full-size card art in-game. At least give us the option between the old style (current style) and a new giant one that is very obtrusive but that’s ok as it’s optional.

6- The Leader/Card arts are not cute/hot enough

Is what I would like to say but nah they got that one on lockdown ngl. I know some of y’all may be freaks are into monsters, I respect it, but personally I prefer humans so nah I like this game’s characters much more than HS (also appericiate the thinly-veiled armpit fetish of the devs lmao).

Overall, really like the game but I can’t see myself playing it for a long time tbh due to the aforementioned problems.

Tl;dr it’s just not varied enough nor complex enough to keep you engaged.

Summary:

During a recital at a stage owned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO), a pianist played a piece dedicated to the over 250 journalists killed in Gaza alongside tens of thousands of children. Following this, MSO cancelled his following concerts and issued an apology to its patrons over the comments. He went on to sue them for discrimination based on his political views.

Defendant argument:

MSO argued that they did this because they were anticipating negative impacts on their business and because the pianists (Jayson) had not sought their permission first, and that this has nothing to do with his political views but a business decision.

Prosecution argument:

Jayson’s lawyers argue that this is a violation of his rights to express his views and that every venue is owned by some company/orchestra and seeking permission for speech from every venue violated that right. They also note that they find it inconceivable that they would’ve been cancelled if they had made a call for hostage release as then-managing director had expressed at the time her belief that the hostages held by Hamas need to be released.

Judge verdict: This is the interesting part. He ruled in favor of MSO because:

“I find that there is a custom or practice that classical musicians do not make statements on sensitive political or social issues from the stage without approval of the host."

Discussion: I agree with Jayson’s argument. If he had called for hostage release or if he had called for the Russian invasion of Ukraine to stop, I find it very very difficult to imagine his next concert would’ve been cancelled. But, on the other hand, taking that logic to its maximum—if someone expressed Nazi-aligned views on stage, should that be allowed? (Not saying pro-palestine = Nazi of course, just using a logical extreme).

While it is a custom in the classical world not to express political views without the host’s permission (or express any at all tbh), that hasn’t always been the case.

Within Polish pianists there had been a long custom of interfering in politics, and some of the biggest musicians in history such as Franz Liszt would regularly engage in politics and supported Hungary’s uprising against Austria as well as several worker struggles.

More recently, famous pianist Krystian Zimmerman also came out on stage in the US and protested the Iraq War and the US’ push to increase missile bases in his country. He received little pushback.

Moreover, that custom of “decorum” doesn’t extend to modern music. No venue where a pop or rock or metal concert is played needs its permission asked for the artist to express political views and it is understood that the views of the performer does not reflect the venue.

If you’re pro-Israel and support this, do consider that world opinion on Israel is souring at a tremendous rate and there soon may come a time when expressing any support for Israel may be met with similar reaction.

If you’re pro-palestine and against this, how far does this logic extend? Does it extend to nazi-aligned views or even gencoidal Israeli views of taking over more land and expelling all the arabs?

If you’re neutral, what do you think?

Interested to hear opinions.

My opinion: I wish for the classical world to move past faux decorum and to more resemble modern music in its free environment. I find it a necessary prequisite for mainstream breakthrough and definitely support artists being more political. Some of the most respected artists in the world of modern music are those who stood against wars through their music at the time.

A viola player once came back home from a long day of playing two chords quietly in the background of a symphony to find his wife getting railed by 3 albanian violinists and he said “Alright” because Viola players are naturally-birthed cucks.

Is there sources that have breakdown/explanation of multiple music pieces? (For example rn I’m doing Bach Prelude in G major and Gymnopedie no. 1 as a 1 month-old pianist).

My music theory level is basically musictheory(.)net (aka can identify and construct diatonic traids and sevenths chords and neopolitan chords etc.) but real music has so many exceptions (sevenths chords with missing 5ths, seventh chords with non-harmonic notes etc.) and it’s difficult for me to grasp pieces so I end up memorizing note by note which is terrible.

I tried AI but AI is REALLY bad at reading music scores for some reason.

Any suggestions? I want to understand what I’m playing