David McMullin

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Four measures of music notation for harp, from an orchestral score in progress. There's a chord, one bar of rest (5/8 meter at quarter-note = 44), and then an arpeggiated phrase. As written, it requires 5 pedal changes in a pretty short amount of time.

Screenshot of a choral/orchestral score, showing SATB chorus with divisi into 6 parts, setting the words, "behold, the lamb of God," and complex accompanimental figures (the subject of the post) in the violins. Harmony is dissonant, atonal/chromatic, but suggestive of E major on arrival of "God." A simpler line begins in violas and cellos toward the end of the excerpt.

1st and 2nd violin parts from a choral/orchestral score, featuring fast scalar and arpeggiated figures, in 32nd-notes