Staccato Legato (G) Usopp/Sanji
Oct. 16th, 2006 10:19 pmMore 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
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
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Date: 2006-10-16 09:33 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-10-16 11:47 pm (UTC)My original intention was that they'd both dropped off at port somewhere and were idly hanging around in a music store, and Sanji was just having fun with the various instruments sold there. The piano-playing in the middle would be oe imagination on Usopp's part, and yes, he did pick up the trumpet(TROMBONE?!?) in the beginning. ;__; b
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Date: 2006-10-17 12:57 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-10-17 01:22 am (UTC)Edits will be in order. >>;
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Date: 2006-10-17 01:29 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-10-17 01:32 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-10-16 10:01 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-10-16 11:02 pm (UTC)no subject
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