September 17, 200817 yr Dear experts, I'm writing this post to get some help as I don't really know that much about classical music. I'm preparing to shoot a short film, and in one scene I'll have a violinist playing in the street. I would like to find a piece for violin that would sound rather melancholic, and somehow represent the misery my characters are going through. Would anybody have some ideas? Thanks a lot! Iben.
September 18, 200817 yr Dear experts,I'm writing this post to get some help as I don't really know that much about classical music. I'm preparing to shoot a short film, and in one scene I'll have a violinist playing in the street. I would like to find a piece for violin that would sound rather melancholic, and somehow represent the misery my characters are going through. Would anybody have some ideas? Thanks a lot! Iben. I have the PERFECT piece for you.
September 21, 200817 yr Anything as played by my neighbor's 9 yr old daughter. Trust me, you have NOT felt misery until you've heard that.
September 21, 200817 yr Anything as played by my neighbor's 9 yr old daughter.Trust me, you have NOT felt misery until you've heard that. Ha! You should have heard my sister shen she started out at six. Or me at four :P
September 21, 200817 yr Dear experts,I'm writing this post to get some help as I don't really know that much about classical music. I'm preparing to shoot a short film, and in one scene I'll have a violinist playing in the street. I would like to find a piece for violin that would sound rather melancholic, and somehow represent the misery my characters are going through. Would anybody have some ideas? Thanks a lot! Iben. Berg, baby. Alben Berg, Violin Concerto.
September 22, 200817 yr Berg, baby. Alben Berg, Violin Concerto. I would describe the Berg concerto is "anguish" rather than misery.
September 22, 200817 yr Well...there are some moments in Allan Pettersson's Seven Sonatas for Two Violins that are full-on desperation style. Like the first movement of the second sonata.
September 22, 200817 yr As we've discussed before, asking for a piece that "presents" or "represents" misery is very difficult, due to the subjective nature of human emotional relationships to music. Pretty much, unless a composer puts the word "misery" in the title, we could all disagree.
September 22, 200817 yr Since I've never played violin nor held one in my hands before, I'll improv something for you.
October 6, 200817 yr Author Thanks for helping guys, I think I've got one, I guess as some of you point out, almost any piece could represent misery, or not, also I would like not only to express the misery but also give a hope, I'm thinking about Wagner's Tr
October 6, 200817 yr Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor would sound quite sad if you took just the solo violin part of the beginning and played it quite slowly.
October 8, 200817 yr mmm... I found this the other day: Romanian Ballad for Piano and Violin, by Ciprian Porumbescu. ROMANIAN BALLAD FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO It is nice....:cool:
October 9, 200817 yr Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor would sound quite sad if you took just the solo violin part of the beginning and played it quite slowly. i second that.
January 18, 200917 yr I would say Barber's Adagio but that's for string orchestra.... I would also say Barber's Violin Concerto but that's too...pretty.
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