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I’ve seen a lot of curious people wanting to dive into classical music but don’t know where to start, so I have written out a list of pieces to listen to depending on mood. I’ve only put out a few, but please add more if you want to. hope this helps y’all out. :)

stereotypical delightful classical music:

battalia a 10 in d major (biber)

brandenburg concerto no. 5

brandenburg concerto no. 3

symphony no. 45 - “farewell” (haydn)

if you need to chill:

rondo alla turca

fur elise

anitra’s dance

in the steppes of central asia (borodin) (added by viola-ology)

if you need to sleep:

moonlight sonata

swan lake

corral nocturne

sleep (eric whitacre) (added by thelonecomposer)

if you need to wake up:

morning mood

summer (from the four seasons)

buckaroo holiday (if you’ve played this in orch you might end up screaming instead of waking up joyfully)

if you are feeling very proud:

pomp and circumstance

symphony no. 9 (beethoven; this is where ode to joy came from)

1812 overture

symphony no. 5, finale (tchaikovsky) (added by viola-ology)

american (dvořák)

if you feel really excited:

hoedown (copland)

bacchanale

spring (from the four seasons) (be careful, if you listen to this too much you’ll start hating it)

la gazza ladra

death and the maiden (schubert)

if you are angry and you want to take a baseball bat and start hitting a bush:

dance of the knights (from the romeo and juliet suite by prokofiev)

winter, mvt. 1 (from the four seasons)

symphony no. 10 mvt. 2 (shostakovich)

symphony no. 5 (beethoven)

totentanz (liszt)

quartet no. 8, mvt. 2 (shostakovich) (added by viola-ology)

young person’s guide to the orchestra, fugue (britten) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

symphony no. 5 mvt. 4 (shostakovich) (added by eternal-cadenza)

marche slave (tchaikovsky) (added by eternal-cadenza)

if you want to cry for a really long time:

fantasia based on russian themes (rimsky-korsakov)

adagio for strings (barber)

violin concerto in e minor (mendelssohn)

aase’s death

andante festivo

vocalise (rachmaninoff) (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

if you want to feel like you’re on an adventure:

an american in paris (gershwin)

if you want chills:

danse macabre

russian easter overture

egmont overture (added by shayshay526)

if you want to study:

eine kleine nachtmusik

bolero (ravel)

serenade for strings (elgar)

scheherazade (rimsky-korsakov) (added by viola-ology)

pines of rome, mvt. 4 (resphigi) (added by viola-ology)

if you really want to dance:

capriccio espagnol (rimsky-korsakov)

blue danube

le cid (massenet) (added by viola-ology)

radetzky march

if you want to start bouncing in your chair:

hopak (mussorgsky)

les toreadors (from carmen suite no.1)

if you’re about to pass out and you need energy:

hungarian dance no. 1

hungarian dance no. 5

if you want to hear suspense within music:

firebird

in the hall of the mountain king

ride of the valkyries

night on bald mountain (mussorgsky) (added by viola-ology)

if you want a jazzy/classical feel:

rhapsody in blue

jazz suite no. 2 (shostakovich) (added by eternal-cadenza)

if you want to feel emotional with no explanation:

introduction and rondo capriccioso

unfinished symphony (schubert)

symphony no. 7, allegretto (beethoven) (added by viola-ology)

canon in d (pachelbel)

if you want to sit back and have a nice cup of tea:

st. paul’s suite

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

l’arlésienne suite

concierto de aranjuez (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

pieces that don’t really have a valid explanation:

symphony no. 40 (mozart)

cello suite no. 1 (bach)

polovtsian dances

enigma variations (elgar) (added by viola-ology)

perpetuum mobile

moto perpetuo (paganini)

pieces that just sound really cool:

scherzo tarantelle

dance of the goblins

caprice no. 24 (paganini)

new world symphony, allegro con fuoco (dvorak) (added by viola-ology​)

le tombeau de couperin (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

carnival of the animals (added by shadowraven45662)

if you feel like listening to concertos all day (I do not recommend doing that):

concerto for two violins (bach)

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

violin concerto in a minor (vivaldi)

violin concerto (tchaikovsky) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

violin concerto in d minor (sibelius) (added by eternal-cadenza)

cello concerto in c (haydn)

piano concerto, mvt. 1 (pierne) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

harp concerto in E-flat major, mvt. 1 (added by iwillsavemyworld)

and if you really just hate classical music in general:

4′33″ (cage)

a lot of these pieces apply in multiple categories, but I sorted them by which I think they match the most. have fun exploring classical music!

also, thank you to viola-ology, iwillsavemyworld, shayshay526, eternal-cadenza, tropicalmunchakoopas, shadowraven45662, and thelonecomposer for adding on! if you would like to add on your own suggestions, please reblog and add on or message me so I can give you credit for the suggestion!

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good things that happened in 2018

Hi i am back again this year with good things that happened and there were quite a few tbh. most of these are from this website and this post

scientists are replacing plastic with algae, a revolutionary idea that can suck carbon out of the air 

scientists accidentally create super enzyme that can devour plastic pollution 

scientists capture first ever confirmed image of a planet being born 

more reliable new form of digital analysis may help to eliminate animal testing 

361 golden retrievers met up in Scotland to celebrate their breed’s birthday 

goats want to see you smile, says new study 

France was the first country to ban supermarkets from throwing away excess food, they must donate unused food or face a fine

beer company creates six pack rings that feed turtles instead of killing them

France becomes the first country in Europe to ban all five pesticides killing bees

Scotland gives free sanitary products to women on low income and students

the number of tigers in the wild Nepal have almost doubled in under a decade

1.5 million volunteers in India set a new world record: they planted 66 million trees in just 12 hours

a South Korean court has ruled the killing of dogs for meat is illegal in landmark ruling

California banes beauty products tested on animals

giant pandas are no longer endangered and China is going to build a massive $1.5B panda conservation park

breast cancer deaths have fallen by 39%

Portugal has banned the use of wild animals in circuses by 2024 with a new law passed in parliament

Saudi Arabia’s ban on women driving officially ends

the ocean cleanup project hopes to remove 50% of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 5 years

soft drink sales in the United States dropped for the 12th year in a row, thanks to consumer education and new sugar taxes

dutch prison population is the lowest in Europe and its prisons are being turned into homes for refugees

Norway is set to become the 14th European country to ban fur farming industries

rats are protecting elephants on their migration routes across Southern Africa, sniffing out land mines that are too small to trigger

study shows that global tree growth over the past 35 years has more than offset tree losses

Bill Gates is donating $12 million to help develop a universal flu vaccine

plant based diets keep becoming more and more popular

pianist finds fulfillment playing music for blind elephants

World Bank says it will no longer fiance oil and gas exploration

China is building another enormous floating solar farm on top of an abandoned coal mine

vulnerable turtles return home to shore after world+s largest volunteer-led beach cleanup

world’s second largest coral reef has been removed from endangered list

after planting a tree every day for the past 40 years, a man has created a blossoming forest on barren wasteland

China hits carbon goals 12 years early

once thought to be extinct, first ever photograph of the tree-kangaroo proves its survival

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