Showing posts with label 10538 Overture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 10538 Overture. Show all posts
Thursday, November 7, 2024
"10538 Overture"
I've noted before that near the end of "10538 Overture" there are some phrases in the cello part that (perhaps just coincidentally) resemble the melody in "Frère Jacques." I listened to No Answer this morning and realized that this may even be an instance of the Beatles' influence since they quoted "Frère Jacques" in the middle of "Paperback Writer."
Thursday, March 12, 2015
"10538 Overture"
Backdated, archival post
[link to original on tumblr]
I wasn't planning on figuring out any parts yet, but…
I was thinking about the arpeggios at the beginning of "10538 Overture," and I thought I'd figured them out in my head. I hadn't, but I was close enough that it didn't take too long to get to this, which I'm fairly confident about. Some of the notes sound a bit weird because I had to play the same note on different strings for different arpeggios. Otherwise, my fingers would have to be four frets and five strings apart.
I also did the French horn part (the quotation from Also Sprach Zarathustra), but it's the fake French horn setting on my keyboard. I know a few of the cello parts, but the fake cello doesn't sound convincing, so I didn't include them. I don't have an actual cello (and don't know how to play one), which could become a pretty big concern.
[link to original on tumblr]
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I was thinking about the arpeggios at the beginning of "10538 Overture," and I thought I'd figured them out in my head. I hadn't, but I was close enough that it didn't take too long to get to this, which I'm fairly confident about. Some of the notes sound a bit weird because I had to play the same note on different strings for different arpeggios. Otherwise, my fingers would have to be four frets and five strings apart.
I also did the French horn part (the quotation from Also Sprach Zarathustra), but it's the fake French horn setting on my keyboard. I know a few of the cello parts, but the fake cello doesn't sound convincing, so I didn't include them. I don't have an actual cello (and don't know how to play one), which could become a pretty big concern.
Sunday, March 8, 2015
No Answer
Backdated, archival post
[link to original on tumblr]
I listened to No Answer yester-day to review some things before writing a post about it. I have things to say about only three of the songs though.
"10538 Overture"
As far as I can tell, the French horn part in this (at least I think it's a French horn) has the same motif as that in Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra - C, G, and then an-other C an octave higher than the first one.
It might just be a coincidence, but some of the cello parts near the end contain a phrase from "Frère Jacques" - the part that corresponds to "Frère Jacques" in the lyrics - C D E C.
Lyrically, there's some resemblance between "10538 Overture" and the Beatles' "A Day in the Life." Roughly, both are about a man's death related through the news. "A Day in the Life" starts out with "I read the news today, oh boy" where "10538 Overture" has "Did you hear the news that came across the air today?," and where "A Day in the Life" has "He blew his mind out in a car," "10538 Overture" mentions that "Someone has been found on the rocks down in the bay."
"Nellie Takes Her Bow"
In the middle section, there's a quotation and then variations on "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen."
"Whisper in the Night"
This is the first of at least three ELO songs that contain the phrase "midnight sun." Here, it's in the line "Face the midnight sun." It's also in "So Fine" ("We'll find the land of the midnight sun") and "Do Ya" ("I've seen babies dancin' in the midnight sun") - both from A New World Record.
[link to original on tumblr]
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"10538 Overture"
As far as I can tell, the French horn part in this (at least I think it's a French horn) has the same motif as that in Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra - C, G, and then an-other C an octave higher than the first one.
It might just be a coincidence, but some of the cello parts near the end contain a phrase from "Frère Jacques" - the part that corresponds to "Frère Jacques" in the lyrics - C D E C.
Lyrically, there's some resemblance between "10538 Overture" and the Beatles' "A Day in the Life." Roughly, both are about a man's death related through the news. "A Day in the Life" starts out with "I read the news today, oh boy" where "10538 Overture" has "Did you hear the news that came across the air today?," and where "A Day in the Life" has "He blew his mind out in a car," "10538 Overture" mentions that "Someone has been found on the rocks down in the bay."
"Nellie Takes Her Bow"
In the middle section, there's a quotation and then variations on "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen."
"Whisper in the Night"
This is the first of at least three ELO songs that contain the phrase "midnight sun." Here, it's in the line "Face the midnight sun." It's also in "So Fine" ("We'll find the land of the midnight sun") and "Do Ya" ("I've seen babies dancin' in the midnight sun") - both from A New World Record.
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