[identity profile] ptps.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] onepieceyaoi100
More serious piece this time, lol. Albeit just as meaningless, BUT ANYWAY.

Title: Staccato Legato
Rating: G
Pairing: Someone --> Sanji. I'd like to put Usopp. Ah, hell. Usopp --> Sanji.
Word count: 300
Topic: Music
A/n: Where music terms are harshly and wrongfully abused. And I only got to Grade Three before I lost interest and my clavi sits rotting at ho - I mean, this was influenced by Sanji's character songs of "Moulin Rouge", "The Great Blue Dessert", and this particular color spread. And Moulin Rouge is still a great song.

edit: *HEADDESKS REPEATEDLY* I suck at music. I suck a LOT. ARGH.


He’d never have associated trombones with Sanji. Trombones were loud, noisy things: blatant and harsh and annoying when screeched too high or thrummed too low. Very different from the gentler, sophisticated side the cook was prone to displaying, when he wasn’t being an idiot with Zoro, or turning to boneless mush in front of the girls.

Sanji lifted the golden instrument to his lips, and blew. The single note rang out clear and steady, deep, resonating; changing to a mellow yodel as the cook wavered the length of the slide. The sound wasn’t entirely unpleasant, rather, strangely odd - alien, almost.

He still saw those slender hands dancing over strips of black against white. Kept seeing them parry in and out of the elongated columns, weaving through the notes like how those equally lengthy legs flashed through his enemies: with speed, precision, agility and power. He saw Sanji’s hands play a coaxing Adagio; saw the way the pale fingers blurred and trilled in beat to Allegro and Vivace. Watched how the slim, black-clad body swayed and rocked in rhythm to the flow of music, the way his hair would wave as he closed his eyes and lifted his chin and pressed tenderly down on the notes in Grazioso.

There was a jarring, fragmented shatter of keys, like how an expensive vase would sound when it broke. He swung around and found Sanji seated at a grand piano, looking quite embarrassed, fingers splayed awkwardly over the pristine blocks before him.

“Never got the hang of this darn thing,” the cook grumbled, and took to stabbing at the keyboard with his forefingers. The melody staggered out disembodied, broken, painful, and a few of the other customers in the store shot him disapproving glares.

He still clapped, though, once Sanji had finished playing.




Music Terms used:

Adagio - A tempo having slow movement; restful at ease.

Allegro - A direction to play lively and fast.

Grazioso - Word to indicate the movement or entire composition is to be played gracefully.

Legato - Word to indicate that the movement or entire composition is to be played smoothly.

Staccato - Short detached notes, as opposed to legato.

Trill - Rapid alternation between notes that are a half tone or whole tone apart.

Vivace - Direction to performer to play a composition in a brisk, lively, and spirited manner. (lol Vivi/Ace.)

Reference: http://www.classicalworks.com/html/glossary.html

Date: 2006-10-16 09:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fieryredqueen.livejournal.com
i like the imagery that goes with the music terminology, and the lulling, dream-like quality of the prose, but i'm a tad confused. at the beginning, sanji's playing the trumpet, and then at the end he's playing the piano...? was the piano-playing a memory?

heh, i could easily associate a trumpet with sanji. not so much the trombone (like in the picture, heehee! i love that spread) and definitely not the tuba.

Date: 2006-10-17 12:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fieryredqueen.livejournal.com
i thought you might have meant the trombone. :D yeah, i think edits would be in order. the trombone can be very sensual, but...it's also kind of harsh, if not played well. i suppose the same could be said of any instrument, though.

hmm...i am not sure how you could articulate or imply the division between reality and fantasy while keeping the flowing quality of the prose. but i didn't really understand that some of that was just happening in usopp's head, i thought sanji was playing and just screwed up. tripped over his fingers, so to speak. i played piano for fifteen years, and i've made more than my share of broken vase sounds even while playing pretty well otherwise.

i didn't really get a sense of setting--i thought at the very end that maybe they were in a music store, but they might just as well have been in a jazz club after hours. i'm not sure how important to you the setting would be in this drabble. ambiguity isn't a negative, sometimes.

Date: 2006-10-17 01:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fieryredqueen.livejournal.com
oh, don't worry about it! it's still a good drabble. no one else seems to have had a problem with it! *frets*

hee--i reread it and it makes a bit more sense now--when i read it first, and you talked about 'slender hands dancing over strips of black against white', i thought--because i thought he was playing the trumpet--that you were making a metaphor about a musical score. you know, when you write music out on paper, it's always black staff, black notes on white paper. so that's where i missed the transition from one instrument to another.

Date: 2006-10-17 01:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fieryredqueen.livejournal.com
;___; don't delete it! not 'cause of me! it's just a little concrit. feel free to thumb your nose at it; it's still a good drabble.

Date: 2006-10-17 01:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fieryredqueen.livejournal.com
but...then you'd miss the deadlines. right? tch! i have a file on my hard drive called 'ptps drabbles' that's like a hundred pages long. i only save stuff i really like. so no stewing for months. betas, though, are wonderful animals--assuming you can find a good one. i love my betas. *snuggles them*

Date: 2006-10-16 10:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orange-smaug.livejournal.com
YOU HAVE A CLAVICHORD?!

Uh, I mean, I love seeing something based on that spread ♥. Though I kept getting confused reading "trumpet-wait trombone-no trumpet-no ARGH" XD.

Date: 2006-10-16 11:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maldoror-gw.livejournal.com
I Love the fact Sanji can't play the piano worth a damn XD Because it's nice when a charismatic character like that can't do everything perfectly (besides, he's a cook, not a musician). And the way you describe him attempting to play the piano is highly amusing ^_^

Date: 2006-10-17 09:01 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] dethorats
This had a very dreamy air to it (how fitting that you went with Usopp) that made it fun to read and I enjoyed getting to add to my music vocabulary.

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