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Hey everyone!
Having just started teaching myself to play the violin, I am still looking forward to learning how to play many of my favorite songs. I was just wondering if anyone else was heavily influenced by the type of music that they wanted to play in deciding to learn the violin.
I personally am a huge fan of film and television musical scores, and luckily many of them already have a rather large string component or can easily be reproduced using strings. In addition to those, I am a big fan of videogame soundtracks and cannot wait to try to play many of the soundtracks from some of my favorite games.
For example, I'd like to master the <a href="
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Hey Noir,
I listened to Frozen in amber and I really liked it.
Probably have to sleep with the light on for a few nights.
and my therapist says those feelings I have should go away in a week or two. LOL
No matter where you go, there you are!
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Haha ok well then I won't make you listen to my usual other bands or you'll start hearing THEM under your bed!
"It can sing like a bird, it can cry like a human being, it can be very angry, it can be all that humans are" Maxim Vengerov
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For me, it was Eternal Friendship, composed by Phil Cunningham and performed by Natalie MacMaster on her "Blueprint" CD. My husband and I first heard it at the Thursday night jam session at O'Hurley's General Store in Shepherdstown, West Virginia last December.
It was because of that song that my husband bought me my violin for Valentine's Day.
I have the sheet music and am learning to play it. Maybe I'll post a video of myself playing it one of these days when I master it. For now, here's a video that I shot that night at O'Hurley's last December. The video quality isn't great but you can hear the music reasonably well.
I also love the theme to Schindler's List. Even if you didn't know the premise of the movie, you'd still feel the emotion through the music. My eyes well up every time I hear it. I would love to be able to play it someday, though unlikely.
This is a good video for violin students because it has a constant, steady view of the violinist and text commentary at the bottom.
Beyond that, I enjoy Irish and Blue Grass fiddle music.
When the work's all done and the sun's settin' low,
I pull out my fiddle and I rosin up the bow.
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Oh man, I forgot one very important one. This song, in all of its renditions, pretty much drives me to tears.
It is the Elder Scrolls core theme that first showed up in <a href="
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“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” ~Benjamin Franklin
Ashokan Farewell and the Civil War TV series left their imprint on me. The series was replayed last spring on a PBS channel in observance of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. I still have the cassette of the music from it and I just might get it out and take a listen.
cdennyb, I could not open up your link. Probably the way my computer is set up, I don't know. 
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For me it's Irish/Celtic and scary music in general that made me start playing violin.
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Hey I2ain! It's nice to see another film score fan. I think the best performance I have ever seen was John Williams conducting the New York Philharmonic playing a selection of his work.
Anyway, the piece that really got me onto the fiddle was "Hills of Glenorchy." Here's one of the best versions I've found.
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Myguitarnow, it's not scary music it's Swan Lake from Tchaikovsky lol. 
"It can sing like a bird, it can cry like a human being, it can be very angry, it can be all that humans are" Maxim Vengerov
