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Scherzo for a Rat

By Daisy on March 17, 2024 9:07 pm


I am Grandma to a rat name Scherzo.  Scherzo is a dance in 2/4 time but also one of my favorite Grand-rats.  Scherzo-rat is a  mischievous yet loving, male rat that gets ideas. I call him my Scherzy-Beast.  A Scherzo dance, is jumpy with a dark quality to it--Merry Prankster--joker.  Beethoven used a Scherzo as the dance movement in the 9th symphony instead of the traditional minuet in 3/4 time.  I picture the opening of this piece's slow half notes as Scherzy-Beast awakens and surveys his realm.  Then he gets busy! He jumps around dragging things he finds, hiding-- then jumping out to scare you.  He is a laughing rat-- he giggles when you rub his tummy!

he giggles when you rub his tummy? = delight

Lovely! Love the debussyesque piano passages and cello lines.

Nitpick: think about the loudness of your uploads. This is very quiet at -25 LUFS. Importantly, the peaks don't go above -7.5 dBFS so you can easily bump loudness by 7 LUFS by just normalizing the file before uploading. But the opening and closing violin could be bumped in volume, it's still much quieter than the rest of the piece.

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Excellent phrygian chords! nice instruments too - can't wait til you start capturing yourself on the violin smile

Cute but stately song for a cute and, I'm sure, stately rat, worthy of praise.
- Spider

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