Five.

Making up for yesterday. Got home pretty late from the Commencement ceremony and just crashed.

This is a short melody for English Horn, probably one of my favorite instruments. It lies in this weird place between the oboe and bassoon and has this sort of haunting sound to it. (Honestly, the recording I put up doesn't do this wonderful instrument justice.)

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In Music Inspired by the Wheel of Time, the opening theme in the first movement is played by the English horn. Follow the link if you want to hear how a real one sounds.

And, if anyone was wondering, the software I use is Finale 2006c with the Garritan Personal Orchestra for the notation and audio work, GIMP for creating the images, and RazorLAME for converting to mp3s.