Violin based PolyCaRe arrangements in 201x – interludes

We will continue the journey on PolyCaRe arrangements of Raja, with his compositions based on violins as the background melody instrument. In this post, we will particularly focus on his interlude compositions in the 201x. As we made it very clear in the definition, the PolyCaRe arrangement not only requires a background violin melody, it also requires at least two call and response melodies in the foreground played according to our rules of CaRe arrangements.

Let’s begin with the song ‘Auna Nuveena’ from Rudramadevi  (Telugu 2015). This segment, has violins as its background instrument. Here is how the segment is structured:

Song	Film	Year	Background instrument	CaRe - Instrument1	CaRe - Instrument2
Auna Nuveena	Rudramadevi	2015	Violins	Guitar	Clarinet

1. The first 2 seconds has only violins playing and these violins will turn out to be the background instruments for throughout the clip
2. Between 2 and 24 seconds, the foreground CaRe arrangement is not perfect as per out rules. For the guitar call, there is a clarinet response and for the second time, you can only hear the response from the clarinet and there is no call from the guitar

The foreground melodies can stand on their own feet as simple CaRe arrangement. The background violin melody makes them polyphonic and hence PolyCaRe. There are 3 foreground melodies playing on top of the constant background  violin melody in these 22 seconds.

Let’s hear the PolyCaRe  arrangement in the song Auna Nuveena …

Let’s continue the journey with the song ‘Mugilo Megamo’  from Megha  (Tamil 2013). This segment, has violins as its background instrument. Here is how the segment is structured:

Song	Film	Year	Background instrument	CaRe - Instrument1	CaRe - Instrument2
Mugilo Megamo’	Megha	2014	Violins	Guitar	Synthesizer

1. Throughout this clip of 14 seconds, the violins play their melody in the background
2. There are 8 CaRe melody arrangements in the foreground while the violins continue their play in the background. The call is made by the guitar and the response is by the synthesizer
3. Perhaps, the densest PolyCaRe arrangement by Raja – 16 foreground melodies in 14 seconds

The foreground melodies can stand on their own feet as simple CaRe arrangement. The background violin melody makes them polyphonic and hence PolyCaRe. There are 16 foreground melodies playing on top of the constant background violin melody in these 14 seconds.

Let’s hear the super dense PolyCaRe  arrangement in the song Mugilo Megamo …

Both these songs have been orchestrated by Raja and played by the BSO in this decade. You can clearly see the high quality of the execution.