By Erik Scheele erikscheele Bandcamp erikscheele SoundCloud jitters20 Twitter jitmakesstuff Tumblr Jitmakesstuff YouTube erikscheele.com erikscheele.com.
Cover art by Sollay sollay-b Tumblr.
Released 6/13/2010.
Art released 4/13/2017.
Duration: 2:18.

Listen on Bandcamp or YouTube.

Download sheet music files.
Read artist commentary.

Tracks that reference Sarabande:

From Official Discography:

• II - Sarabande by Clark Powell
• Our Glorious Speaker by Alex Rosetti

From Fandom:

• Sarabande (Canon Edit) by goldcray
• Twelfth Perigee's Eve Sarabande by Sean Gorter
• A Farewell to Arms by Catboss
• Rainbow Rumpus Partytown by Tee-vee

Print or download sheet music files:

• Sheet music by Erik Scheele (original composer)

  • Sarabande - Erik Scheele.pdf (287.2 kB)
• String orchestra arrangement by MarimbaMaestoso

  • Sarabande - MarimbaMaestoso (score).pdf (110.9 kB)
  • Sarabande - MarimbaMaestoso (violin 1).pdf (74.2 kB)
  • Sarabande - MarimbaMaestoso (violin 2).pdf (71 kB)
  • Sarabande - MarimbaMaestoso (viola).pdf (75.5 kB)
  • Sarabande - MarimbaMaestoso (cello).pdf (76.3 kB)
  • Sarabande - MarimbaMaestoso (bass).pdf (68.6 kB)

Artist commentary:

Erik Scheele: (composer)

I'll never really know what happened to produce this. Not really, never. I wish I could remember if there was some thought process behind it, some sort of inspiration, but I really can't remember any. Most likely, that was for the better.

What I mean is, I used to do a lot of improvisation after theater classes, instead of practicing, while my mother would clean up the various classrooms that were used. There was never really any inspiration for things that I can remember, and they were just a lot of off-the-cuff experiments of a sort, I guess. Some probably turned out great, and there were probably more than a couple days where nothing happened. I can remember trying to emulate different video game soundtracks or bits from them, but that was never really a norm. The only thing I'd ever think regularly was how no one would ever actually hear the improvisation I was playing, and I was okay with that. This was before college, anyway.

My point is, improvisation rarely had a point, so it's really impossible to nail down if there was any reason for playing Sarabande that night. The way it went about, I just played the piece, exactly how it was recorded, aside from one little mistake. Then I stopped, went "Okay yeah, that was good", packed up, and left. A while later, I needed to play things for the composer concert, so I performed it from memory, and that's where the recording came from.

It's kind of gained a status among the fandom for being music for when John reads Jade's letter, which I think is a rather good place for it to go. Although, I think I actually called it "Rooftop Waltz" at one point, for Rose/Dave shipping stuff, buuuuut I'm rather glad that the "purpose" and title is changed now. "Rooftop Waltz", that's such an awful cheesy love title, plus, the piece really is a sarabande. I mean literally, it fits the genre fairly well, plus my composition prof called it "a perfect sarabande", so there we go.

Sollay: (anthology artist, Tumblr)

My first piece for the Vol 5 Anthology project, plus desktop version :)

Sollay: (alternate artwork)

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