"Look at Me Now"

A couple days ago, I was looking at what parts I've learned for No Answer (as of yester-day, I know at least a little bit of each song), and I discovered that I know two parts for "Look at Me Now."  Last August, I learned some of the oboe phrases, and last month, I learned the first two verses of cello (the left-panned cello specifically).  In order to make a recording worth it, my requirements are two simultaneous parts that last more than just a few seconds, so this qualified.  I don't (yet!) play (or even own) cello or oboe, so I used electric bass in place of cello and an oboe voice on my keyboard.

"Look at Me Now"

Lately, I've been listening to a ten-CD box set of works by the Danish composer Carl Nielsen.  I found a melody in his Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 33 that sounded familiar.  Near the end of the Allegro cavallerésco in the first movement, there's this phrase in the solo violin:

[notation found here]

I knew this was similar to a phrase from one of the songs on No Answer, but I had to do a bit of searching before I found which one.  It's the vocal melody at the beginning of the bridge in "Look at Me Now," which is something like:

(I guessed on the key.  I'm still having trouble understanding the lyrics on a lot of the early ELO songs, but I think the lines here are "Now she's a sallow face / Got a ring of lace.")

The exact pitches (and even the intervals) aren't the same, and the rhythms are a little different, but the two melodies do have the same general shape.

"Look at Me Now" was written by Roy Wood.  I don't know if he was familiar with this particular piece by Nielsen, but there is a certain similarity between these two phrases.