Saturday, July 23, 2022

Musical interlude of the day

 

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Rhapsody, by James Parker.

The entire album can be downloaded from Internet archives.

We ran across this lovely song from the British TV series Midsomer Murders  (s08E08) (the plot was about people maipulating the original manuscript of the music to claim part of the royalties, so the script includes a few grisley murders, of course. )

But the music was so wonderful we googled and found it was written by James Parker, who does the themesong and background music for the series. He is one of these little noticed musicians who write background music for TV/Film dramas.

The theme music of the show is eerie, to say the least:



the musical instrument playing that eerie sound is a Theremin: an instrument that you play without touching it. Here is a film about this instrument:


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