Tuesday, October 30, 2018

"Dreaming of 4000"

I listened to On the Third Day this morning (for a few reasons: 1) I've been thinking about writing a post about "In the Hall of the Mountain King" comparing it to Grieg's original, 2) I figured out a violin part at the beginning of "Oh No Not Susan" yester-day but haven't actually listened to the song for quite some time, and 3) I think On the Third Day is the ELO album I'm least familiar with [of the ones I have, anyway]).

This might be a bit trivial, but I noticed a somewhat interesting feature in "Dreaming of 4000."  At ~2:02 (and again at ~3:43), the cellos play:


which is an example of the Alberti bass.