pov: both you and your king are about to be smothered | cozy dark academia ambience

a warm dark academia ambience for studying, reading and slow evenings: one hour and forty minutes of romantic-era classical music with no lyrics, no talking and no ads mid-video. cello and nylon guitar throughout, pizzicato strings at the centre. use it as background music for study sessions, writing, essays, chess, painting, or an evening that does not need to go anywhere. — the lamp has been lit for an hour and nobody has got up to draw the curtains. across the board your oldest friend is thinking, one hand at his beard, and you already know what he will do — you have known his hands for forty years. behind you the clock keeps its own opinion. the cat has stopped washing and is watching the three of you, as though she has counted something you have not. — Original artwork: The Chess Players — Thomas Eakins, 1876 Public domain. Reinterpreted as pixel art and animated in Aseprite by fragments&c. Music: 36 pieces by Schubert, Brahms, Robert and Clara Schumann, Haydn, Josephine Lang and 17 other composers — performed here by fragments&c. Every recording in this video was produced by me from open-licence (CC0) score editions of public-domain compositions. No third-party recordings are used. Score editions: OpenScore Lieder — https://github.com/OpenScore/Lieder CHAPTERS 0:00 Opening Stillness 20:20 The Shift 41:19 The Encounter 1:07:12 Changed Stillness TRACKLIST 0:00 Franz Schubert — 4 Lieder, Op.96 — 3 Wandrers Nachtlied, D.768 (cello & nylon guitar) 1:38 Johannes Brahms — 7 Lieder, Op.48 — 7 Herbstgefühl (cello & nylon guitar) 5:16 Robert Schumann — Liederkreis, Op.39 — 4 Die Stille (cello & nylon guitar) 6:54 Joseph Haydn — 10 Canzonets — 9 She never told her love, Hob.XXVIa34 (cello & nylon guitar) 9:57 Clara Schumann — 6 Lieder, Op.13 — 6 Die stille Lotosblume (cello & nylon guitar) 12:19 Josephine Lang — 3 Lieder, Op.36 — 1 Es sang vor langen Jahren wohl auch die Nachtigall (cello & nylon guitar) 18:42 Fanny Hensel — Gartenlieder, Op.3 — 3 Im Herbste (cello & nylon guitar) 20:20 Johannes Brahms — 9 Lieder und Gesänge, Op.63 — 2 Erinnerung (cello & nylon guitar) 23:09 Josephine Lang — 6 Lieder, Op.10 — 1 Gedenkst du mein (cello & nylon guitar) 25:43 Charles Gounod — 6 Mélodies — 4 Chant d'automne (cello & nylon guitar) 28:08 Robert Franz — 6 Gesänge, Op.26 — 4 Des Müden Abendlied (cello & nylon guitar) 30:26 Emilie Mayer — 2 Gesänge — 1 Abendglocken (cello & nylon guitar) 33:13 Edward Elgar — 7 Lieder — 3 A Song of Autumn (cello & nylon guitar) 35:25 Augusta Mary Anne Holmès — Mélodies pour piano et chant — 8 Souvenir (cello & nylon guitar) 37:51 Johanna Kinkel — 6 Lieder, Op.16 — 3 Abschied von Italien (cello & nylon guitar) 41:19 Franz Schubert — Schwanengesang, D.957 — 7 Abschied (cello & pizzicato strings) 46:14 Franz Schubert — Die schöne Müllerin, D.795 — 5 Am Feierabend (cello & pizzicato strings) 48:54 Johannes Brahms — 5 Lieder, Op.49 — 5 Abenddämmerung (cello & pizzicato strings) 52:01 Emilie Mayer — 3 Lieder, Op.7 — 2 O lass mich dein gedenken (cello & pizzicato strings) 55:25 Felix Mendelssohn — 6 Duets, Op.63 — 4 Herbstlied, MWV J 11 (cello & pizzicato strings) 57:48 Hugo Wolf — Eichendorff-Lieder — 12 Heimweh (cello & pizzicato strings) 1:00:19 Clara Mathilda Faisst — 5 Lieder, Op.3 — 3 Letzter Wunsch (cello & pizzicato strings) 1:02:29 Ellen Dickson — The Land of Long Ago (cello & pizzicato strings) 1:04:26 Carrie Jacobs-Bond — Do You Remember (cello & pizzicato strings) 1:07:12 Robert Schumann — Dichterliebe, Op.48 — 16 Die alten, bösen Lieder (cello & nylon guitar) 1:11:10 Johannes Brahms — 7 Lieder, Op.48 — 5 Trost in Tränen (cello & nylon guitar) 1:14:55 Richard Strauss — 4 Lieder, Op.27 — 1 Ruhe, meine Seele! (cello & nylon guitar) 1:18:31 Franz Schubert — Op.22 — 2 Wehmut, D.772 (cello & nylon guitar) 1:21:48 Robert Schumann — Liederkreis, Op.39 — 9 Wehmuth (cello & nylon guitar) 1:23:57 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor — 6 Sorrow Songs, Op.57 — 2 When I am dead, my dearest (cello & nylon guitar) 1:26:19 Frederick Delius — 4 Old English Lyrics — 4 To Daffodils (cello & nylon guitar) 1:28:48 Fanny Hensel — 5 Lieder, Op.10 — 4 Im Herbste (cello & nylon guitar) 1:31:07 Johanna Kinkel — 6 Lieder, Op.19 — 5 Abschied (cello & nylon guitar) 1:34:16 Evelyn Faltis — Lieder fernen Gedenkens, Op. posth — 1 Unklarheit (cello & nylon guitar) 1:36:47 Cécile Chaminade — Rêve d'un soir (cello & nylon guitar) 1:39:09 Franz Schubert — 4 Lieder, Op.96 — 3 Wandrers Nachtlied, D.768 (english horn & nylon guitar) — #darkacademia #ambience #classicalmusic #studymusic #focusmusic #povambience #cozy #readingmusic #instrumental #soundscape