Good day sir!

So last night my mom, brother, and I went to the Kimmel Center to see Beethoven's Piano Concerto 3 and another which escapes me (called "Eroica"). Anyway, I am not big on classical but it is always exciting as I usually go to concerts with only 4 or 5 dudes smashing a drum kit and shredding brah, and it is nice to see 30 or so talented musicians in an orchestra.

But my favorite part about going to ze theatah is at the very beginning, when the lead (she is an Asian woman, plays violin in the Philly Orchestra) walks over to the piano or to the conductor's stage, and she leads what can only be likened to the opening credits in a movie that has had sound mastered by THX, that rising harmony that sort of fills the room.

Is there a name for this? It sounds like everyone is doing a quick tune, maybe it is meant to harmonize with everyone else for a second to get their ears ready? Why do I love it so much?

 

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Beethoven's Third Symphony is called, "The Eroica," or "Hero." He had named it originally after Napoleon, but once Napoleon crowned himself Emporer, Beethoven wasn't gonna stand for that shit. . .

It's different, but it's good.

You're right in guessing it was the tuning sequence; that's exactly what it was (is). The lead violin, called the Concertmaster/mistress looks to the oboe, or piano (since this was a piano concerto), and plays an A (440hz, give or take). The orchestra will tune accordingly.

In the case of the violins, they are tuning their open strings, A, then E (five notes above A), D (four notes below the A), and G (four notes below the D). The violas tune to A D G C (descending), the cellos do the same, but an octave lower, and then the basses tune two octaves down to G D A E. All of those intervals are very "open" sounding, and never connote either a major nor minor tonality. There's a lot of music that is dependent on those intervals for their fundamental sonorities.

 

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Gore. . .belatedly, as America realizes in hindsight that there really are bigger pedantic blowhards than Al.

 

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You don't want me answering this. It'd be the epitome of tasteless and funny.

 

K I'll take yur werd 4 it

here I'll give ya an easy one>

If you don't eat your meat how can you have any pudding?