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 Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 6:39 am
I think it's one of the most beautiful pieces for the violin. Do you know it? Or do you know other music of Ralph Vaughan Williams? His 'Fantasia on a theme by Tomas Tallis' is my favourite music.
But I'm now studying 'The Lark Ascending". Anyone else?
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 8:54 pm
Eh. I've done some of his arrangements. Greensleeves, maybe something else too. {shrug} It was.. greensleeves, after all.
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 3:38 am
iviary Eh. I've done some of his arrangements. Greensleeves, maybe something else too. {shrug} It was.. greensleeves, after all. Oh, yes! I know it too! Beautiful, isn't it!
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 12:27 pm
Emmylientje iviary Eh. I've done some of his arrangements. Greensleeves, maybe something else too. {shrug} It was.. greensleeves, after all. Oh, yes! I know it too! Beautiful, isn't it! I suppose. It's just seemed a bit.. mundane, next to the other 2 pieces we were doing: Finlandia, and Capriccio Espagnol.
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 6:18 pm
Greensleeves is a really short piece... (unless I just learned the shortened version... XP) I've taught myself J.S. Bach's 1st Minuet, Sutaki De Ne (from FFX), the original Tetris Theme, the theme from Hobbiton in The Lord of the Rings, the bass line to Explosive from the group 'bond', Can-Can, and a crap load of Christmas music that I dont play anymore... XP And you want to know the sad part... I CANT READ MUSIC! Bleh!!! But I know my C, G, D, E flat, E, and A scales... I know... it sucks... but life will go on... much as it has for the past X-million years... ^_^
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 12:40 pm
I've never heard the lark..but I have heard of it a lot. I just got finished playing the "Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus" for string orchestra and harp. It is an amazing piece. I play viola btw 3nodding I am also working on his Suite for viola and orchestra, 2nd group: Balland and moto perpetuo. VERY hard and fast razz
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 7:37 pm
TheCornerOfTheRoundRoom2 Greensleeves is a really short piece... (unless I just learned the shortened version... XP) I've taught myself J.S. Bach's 1st Minuet, Sutaki De Ne (from FFX), the original Tetris Theme, the theme from Hobbiton in The Lord of the Rings, the bass line to Explosive from the group 'bond', Can-Can, and a crap load of Christmas music that I dont play anymore... XP And you want to know the sad part... I CANT READ MUSIC! Bleh!!! But I know my C, G, D, E flat, E, and A scales... I know... it sucks... but life will go on... much as it has for the past X-million years... ^_^ Well, Vaughn Williams didn't write the piece; it's his two-page arrangement of the tune, for string orchestra.
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Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 5:11 am
iviary TheCornerOfTheRoundRoom2 Greensleeves is a really short piece... (unless I just learned the shortened version... XP) I've taught myself J.S. Bach's 1st Minuet, Sutaki De Ne (from FFX), the original Tetris Theme, the theme from Hobbiton in The Lord of the Rings, the bass line to Explosive from the group 'bond', Can-Can, and a crap load of Christmas music that I dont play anymore... XP And you want to know the sad part... I CANT READ MUSIC! Bleh!!! But I know my C, G, D, E flat, E, and A scales... I know... it sucks... but life will go on... much as it has for the past X-million years... ^_^ Well, Vaughn Williams didn't write the piece; it's his two-page arrangement of the tune, for string orchestra. Yes, I know that. But he made a short part -between the tune- himself, and that's very...well...Vaughan Williams-like. I like his arrangement
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Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 5:13 am
[dale] I've never heard the lark..but I have heard of it a lot. I just got finished playing the "Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus" for string orchestra and harp. It is an amazing piece. I play viola btw 3nodding I am also working on his Suite for viola and orchestra, 2nd group: Balland and moto perpetuo. VERY hard and fast razz He made a Suite for viola and orchestra?! surprised Is it difficult for someone who plays the violin for 12 years and wants to try the viola? (=me)
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 12:11 am
Emmylientje iviary TheCornerOfTheRoundRoom2 Greensleeves is a really short piece... (unless I just learned the shortened version... XP) I've taught myself J.S. Bach's 1st Minuet, Sutaki De Ne (from FFX), the original Tetris Theme, the theme from Hobbiton in The Lord of the Rings, the bass line to Explosive from the group 'bond', Can-Can, and a crap load of Christmas music that I dont play anymore... XP And you want to know the sad part... I CANT READ MUSIC! Bleh!!! But I know my C, G, D, E flat, E, and A scales... I know... it sucks... but life will go on... much as it has for the past X-million years... ^_^ Well, Vaughn Williams didn't write the piece; it's his two-page arrangement of the tune, for string orchestra. Yes, I know that. But he made a short part -between the tune- himself, and that's very...well...Vaughan Williams-like. I like his arrangement That was for the person saying that Greensleeves is a really short piece.
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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 4:33 pm
Ohgeez.
I was about to make a thread about eargasmic songs,
But yeah.
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
The highest orchestra of my school (which I wish I was in,) played that song.
So now I'm listening to it over and over on Comcast Rhapsody to confuse it and get as many free plays as I want.
Only thing that bothers me is they play this one part slower than our orchestra did and it makes it less dramatic to me. x:
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Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:21 am
Emmylientje I think it's one of the most beautiful pieces for the violin. Do you know it? Or do you know other music of Ralph Vaughan Williams? His 'Fantasia on a theme by Tomas Tallis' is my favourite music. But I'm now studying 'The Lark Ascending". Anyone else? I've got a CD of I think it's Nigel Kennedy playing this piece and it's lovely. I really wish I could play it.
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:35 am
Tragedy! At The Disco Ohgeez.
I was about to make a thread about eargasmic songs,
But yeah.
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
The highest orchestra of my school (which I wish I was in,) played that song.
So now I'm listening to it over and over on Comcast Rhapsody to confuse it and get as many free plays as I want.
Only thing that bothers me is they play this one part slower than our orchestra did and it makes it less dramatic to me. x: I played Fantasia with the orchestra I'm in, but I didn't know the music that time. I played the second second violin part of the first orchestra. (The second orchestra had also two second violin parts, so in total there were four first, four second violin parts, four viola parts and four cello parts, can you imagine the sounds!) I first heard only the second violins on a repetition, and I disliked it, because it sounded much too modern to me. After that a bassist who I don't like very much told me he heard the music and liked it very much. Well, after that I found it terrible music! But the first repetition with the whole orchestra was so surprising for me! I was somewere in the middle of the first otchestra and heard sounds from all places around me and it sounded so perfect, so beautiful! It means so much more if you're in the middle of the music and join! It's so much more then a cd!
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:28 pm
Nigel Kennedy's verion of Lark is the one I have heard most often.
I loved playing the Fantasia on a Theme. My city's Honor Orchestra borrowed the music from my school (Which I strongly suspect they do every year, after going through and organizing the music) to play it, and we pulled it together in a couple weeks. I really enjoyed playing second violin for that; the moving sixteenth notes in the middle, for example, are such an important part of the structure.
I understand about the recording being different. That isn't really bad for me most of the time, but there was a recording of Sibelius' Sypmphony No. 1, in which they (to my mind) ruined the most exciting moment; in the fourth movement, it is basically... Romeo and Juliet, when Mercutio is stabbed; a series of screamingly loud chords, and then just a whirling rapid-fire plunge down the strings. In the recording I have, though, the chords are followed by a slow, leisurly descent, which to me defeats the whole tension. But there are people who like that version better. I don't know.
(Sorry, a bit off topic.)
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:55 am
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