#string music

[julianerui]

oh beauty

[automaticfrenchhorn]

Aside from my keyboard works, I realized that I have rarely written for a solo instrument for any of my daily studies, so today I decided to remedy that with a solo string piece.

This study is mostly rhythmic and motivic, with added and subtracted beats all over the piece, causing the motivic cells to bounce around, shifting which beat (or off-beat) they start on.

As always, these pieces are welcome for anyone and everyone to play! All I ask is that you share it with me, because I'd love to hear it done by live players!

[crowscadence]

“What are you listening to” my jolly tune

[kaleidoscopevisualart]

📺 Kaleidoscope Visuals Cinematic Fantasy Music Piano Orchestral String Kaleidoscope Background Video

[mild-effect]

Mild Effect - The Wait

[seothesuperstar]

Quality Meter

Seo - Telekinesis

[notsolonedesert]

*Rises from my grave*

...Ithacan siblings....what if...Ctimene's instrument is the harp......

*dies again*

[badarchitectrecords]

Listen to this beautiful string composition by Quatuor Esca!

[bdunnagan3-blog]

Some sampled strings makes “verliots”

[musicandpsychology]

The Hurdy-Gurdy Player (Le Joueur de Vielle) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Did you know that the hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that has been around since the Middle Ages? Initially, it was used for sacred music, but over time, it became famous for playing popular and folk music.

It even found favour at the French court! Although it experienced a decline in popularity, it is currently experiencing a resurgence and can be found in various genres, from traditional folk to progressive rock and avant-garde music.

Interestingly, the reason for its name is unknown, but it is speculated that it may be related to the sound it produces.

Unlike other string instruments, the hurdy-gurdy creates sound by rubbing its strings with a rosined wheel. It also has drone strings that create a buzzing accompaniment to the tune, similar to bagpipes that create a buzzing accompaniment.

If you want to learn more about the hurdy-gurdy, click the link here.

[automaticfrenchhorn]

Quick piece today, expanding on some of the ideas in study no. 32, also for string quartet. Specifically, the texture between the two violins. I've been exploring these sonoritires of stacked or interlocked sixths for a while, and they work quite naturally for violins, since sixths are the easiest double stop.

The pizzicato foundation is mostly for contrast, but I quite like the rhythm it adds to the violin lines.

As always, these pieces are welcome for anyone and everyone to play! All I ask is that you share it with me, because I'd love to hear it done by live players!

[kattortillas]

so are we gonna talk about how odysseus' motif during THAT part of love in paradise is played by a single string per note. its not chords. just single string. bc hes hanging on a thread. his last thread.

[dadvans]

9-1-1 | S02x16 Bobby Begins Again | This Must Be The Place

when i think about when i fell in love with bobby nash, i think of this sequence in particular. bobby challenged himself to live again, make a new home, build a new family, and the beating heart of the 118 began here, with him.

[celestine-witch]

Been thinking about Penelope and “The Challenge”

Because after issuing her challenge to the suitors, Penelope tells them to:

“Let the arrow fly once you know that your aim is true”

And like, obviously, on the surface it's about the challenge itself—it is, in part, a test of accuracy, so your aim better be damn good. But y'know what a person's "aim" can also mean? Their motivation, their goals.

And we already saw in "Legendary" and "Little Wolf" that, at the very least, Antinous' motives are anything but true. He wants the power of the throne, the prestige of being able to say he married Penelope, but he doesn't give two shits about her.

Then, "Hold Them Down" confirms that none of the suitors are any better, and how does the first verse of that song start? With Antinous pointing out that the suitors can't even string the bow. Forget shooting through twelve axes, these fuckers can't even do the first step in having a bow. Their aim—their goal—is selfish and vile, so far off the mark that they can't even take the first step in doing it right. So Antinous convinces them to give up; he convinces them to stop pretending and to act as evilly as they all want to (himself especially).

But Odysseus? His aim is true; he is motivated solely by his love for his wife and son, everything—and everyone—else be damned. And shout-out to the animators and artists who depict Ody shooting Antinous through the axes—it's just the perfect extra layer of Odysseus proving that he's leagues above the suitors in all regards. Related: shout-out to the animators and artists who have Penelope make the shot during "The Challenge," because her aim is just as true as her husband's. They're a perfect match for each other.

[my-darling-boy]

Pieces of String (2018) by Gus Gowland, dir. Ryan McBryde

“…set simultaneously in the 1940s and in the present day, Pieces Of String tells how Jane’s father, Edward, came back from the Second World War with a secret that would change his life forever – a secret that he would carry until the day he died. With hauntingly beautiful music and a heart-rending human story, Pieces Of String is a tender, funny, emotionally-charged exploration of how three generations of one family learn to deal with a story that nobody’s been brave enough to tell until today.” (x)

[automaticfrenchhorn]

Brevity was my focus today, on a few different levels in the piece. At 11 measures, this is one of my shortest studies so far, though the slow tempo helps it not be too quick.

The four voices of the string quartet play a five voice chorale, where the fifth voice, in the middle, only ever exists as a trill from the second violin or viola, thus making this line literally ephemeral and constantly fleeting, as contrasted to the permanance of the melody and bass line.

As always, these pieces are welcome for anyone and everyone to play! All I ask is that you share it with me, because I'd love to hear it done by live players!