A Brief Musical Interlude

Hello everyone! Just a brief post this time on the subject of—of all things—music. When I wrote An Afternoon for Dotted Line people expressed some disbelief, I seem to recall, on how Rose managed to get so many voices on one violin, and assumed I was taking liberties. And, yes, in part I was, and really, those can be hoofwaved by just going "Magic!" but I knew there was a four-voices-on-one-violin piece I was consciously riffing on, but could not find it.

I've now found it and I present for your enjoyment a flavor of how such a composition might sound:

Also a great piece—possibly greatest piece of violin music, really—demonstrating much the same is this:

Hope you enjoy.

Now back to the Word Mines for me. Stupid work.

Comments

[TheJediMasterEd]

Ah, Der Erlkonig! The theme they always used, in old cartoons, to bring on the villain.

I'm told it's the basis for the five-note leitmotif in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but if that's true I don't have the education to hear it.

(Wait...is that young Agent Coulter at the keyboard?...)

[Lunae Lumen]

And here's the original (piano and vocals) for comparison.

[A.P.O.N.I.]

That was, aside from being a significant technical achievement, just lovely. Thank you.

[vladspellbinder]

Your hashtags are all over the place. I don't want to see all blogs about "dotted" and "line", I want more about "dotted line"... .

Music is great though.

[Axis of Rotation]

I know nothing about music, and it's embarrassing (when you said four voices I was like "...wut" ) but! this was great to listen to, so thanks ^.^