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David Rupp
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Reader of mostly fiction & history.
Player of card & board games.
Player of simple piano music.
Composer of music in antiquated styles.
Website with music: https://rupponline.net/index.html
Mastodon (more music): https://musicians.today/@rppoedvd
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A post mastodon.world/@muz4now/114... by Stan Stewart is the proximate cause for this simulation of a cakewalk, which, if played by an Italian, would be in the tempo of andante.

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A cakewalk for piano.
July 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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This is a companion movement to bsky.app/profile/oerp... .

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Three minutes of fleet-footed, light-hearted piano music.
June 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Lost to Time

This song was inspired by the idea of a 'Ghibli x Zelda' style fantasy story. ⚔️✨

➣ Full song: youtu.be/uQAL5qMXIaE

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October 21, 2024 at 2:06 AM
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On the day this was written, the pair of SNJ/AT-6s based nearby flew overhead, enroute to somewhere.

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A bit of orchestral music (flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, trumpet, cornet, timpani, strings).
May 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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The #DailyMelody music that I write in a single day seems to reflect the personal events & thoughts of the day. But, since the writing takes up a good chunk of the day, my personal events & thoughts may be a reflection of the music written.

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A short bit of music in A major for cornets, clarinets, strings, and tympani. The melodic material is derived from yesterday's post (23 May 2025). The chord progressions are from the first part of "Folia", specifically i-v-i (minor tonic and dominant chords), and VII-III (major supertonic and mediant chords, which are also the tonic and dominant of the key's relative major, C).
May 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Maybe a soundtrack.

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A page of orchestral music with notes for the oboe and double bass (all other instruments are silent ).
May 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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May Day, Chaska, Minnesota
May 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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For a few hours during an early spring day, the mind tuned out certain Toxic Official Word Salads so as to hear, instead, a polyphonic unfolding of four harmonious voices.

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The opening dozen bars of a piece of music for violin, E-flat clarinet, cello, and bassoon. The cello and bassoon play alone for the first nine bars, then are joined by the violin and clarinet.
May 1, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Northern flicker and brown thrasher have arrived to their summer residence.
April 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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I mean this is absolutely HHS right now
April 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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America tried to trade for another ochre or maybe a hides but somehow wound up with all the calamities at once
April 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Everything is bad but birds are good so time to reinstitute BIRD PROTOCOL where a bird is deployed to offset endless evil vibes, please enjoy, birds are good, okay bye

(photo by me)
Portrait-oriented photo featuring a wooden post with a rusted hanger hook jutting out of it, and standing atop the post, triumphant and at least slightly indignant, is a plump little bluebird. The bluebird is a male, and we see the electric blue of his head, but the predominant part facing us is the coppery-orange and pale white front. He is standing amidst little pink-and-red tree blossoms, but I like to imagine these are instead the extracted organs of his enemies. So let's just pretend this bluebird stands vengefully astride a scattering of viscera -- gobbets of gore taken as a prize from his unnatural and invasive foes. I'm sorry I've really made this a gross photo. It's actually quite nice. Kind of a dreamy vibe to it, what with the wall of yellow forsythia blurring in the background, and here I am adding drippy bits and internal organs. I'm sorry. I'll do better next time. Probably. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig
April 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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This needs to be posted on a continuous loop.
April 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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A Minute of Five.
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A minute of piano music in 5/8 time.
April 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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A century and a quarter ago Ellen Sandels wrote a cavalry march for piano called "Blå Prinsen", which could be translated as "Blue Prince". This march for brass quintet is a (loose) arrangement of Sandels' piano march.

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The first page of music for brass quintet.
March 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Over a century ago, Boris Sabaneyev wrote a "Canzona Phrygia", a mostly polyphonic bit of music for organ and arranged for piano. The first ten bars of the middle and upper contraputal voices serve as the basis for the music below.

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Some would say this is mostly calm music in a polyphonic style, played on a piano.
March 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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A Lake of the Isles Luminary, in which the Shadow People follow The Light.
A photo taken at night. People walk on a frozen lake on which luminaries mark a path. On the horizon, in the distance, are the lights of a cluster of tall buildings. Low clouds reflect the lights.
February 14, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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A sonata movement in a more or less Classical style.

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Piano music for a sonata movement in the style represented by the likes of Haydn, Clement, Hummel, and Mozart, but with a certain amount of syncopation.
January 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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A simple ternary song to hear what the Steinberg samples for bansuri, duduk, conga, and hand clap sound like.

Score: rupponline.net/music/202x/2...

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Part of a page of music scored for bansuri (an Indian flute), duduk (an Armenian double-reed instrument), conga drum, and hand claps. The general style is syncopated.
January 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Hail on The Thief

"Is weather forecast, with Sharpie, Da?"
20 January 2025: A Felon is The Leader.

In part, this is a musical comment on Aardman's "Inauguration Funeral March" bsky.app/profile/aard...

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A funeral march loosely derived from "Hail to the Chief". The tempo is "Con Mafioso" at the rate of 47 beats per minute. The title is "Hail on The Thief" and the sub-title is "A Felon is The Leader". The music has faint echoes of Shostakovich, Dimitri.
January 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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A quiet shoutout, though he is unlikely to hear it, to Salvatore de Santa Maria for being the inspiration for this minute of music: rupponline.net/music/dailyM...

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Part of the sheet music for a short, one minute bit of counterpoint for two voices.
January 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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A short bit of music written on a Thursday during an afternoon snowshower, the name of which naturally became "Thor's Snow Day".

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The sheet music of a short, somewhat contrapuntal piano piece that is in three parts, the last part being the same as the first.
January 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM