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Adventurous Irish Violins
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This is a popular musical motif found throughout the scores of adventure movies and TV shows. The classical stereotype of the Irish Immigrant throughout the colonial era (and by extension, the Irish farmer) is an earthily honest man who is one with the world around him, simultaneously able to accept the hardships of life and take any hardship life throws at him, resulting in a robust, innocent and pure optimism that anything is possible through joyful, honest hard work. Therefore, if a composer wishes to evoke that spirit of optimistic idealistic wonder (especially through a montage of True Companions working together for a common cause), the joyfully whimsical strains of the Irish fiddle are invoked to stir similar emotions in the audience. Note that this musical motif does not always have to apply to settings in Ireland or even have any Irish characters; regardless of the presence or absence of Irishmen in the story, it will subconsciously take the audience on an emotional level back to the classical romanticism of the early and late modern eras — the era of colonists, seafarers and other adventurers — where there is still an unknown adventure in every horizon, ready for your bravery and optimism to challenge. Obviously, a popular staple of the Hard-Work Montage. |
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Sherlock Holmes (2009) features Irish violins in some scenes. There's also "The Rocky Road to Dublin" during Holmes' boxing match by the Irish ensemble The Dubliners, though this one has a banjo and an Irish flute instead. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows has some as well, as well as some more "Gypsy" takes on the instrument. |
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Similarly, the musical score for Master and Commander (starring Russell Crowe) loves using this in its more optimistic sequences, though justified as it is set in the Napoleonic Wars. Somewhat inevitable as lead characters Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are, respectively, a violinist and an Irishman. | |
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Laid-Back Camp utilizes the fiddle in its incidental pieces to capture the sense of adventure and majesty the girls encounter while camping in the outdoors. | |
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My-Otome uses more playful variations on this to invoke the optimistic adventurousness of our Country Mouse heroine, Arika Yumemiya. | |
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The Seven Deadly Sins: "Perfect Time", courtesy of composer Hiroyuki Sawano, has multiple violins frantically powering the song as the performers sing about actually taking the Call to Adventure. | |
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Unsurprisingly, this features prominently in the musical scores of the Irish dance stage shows Riverdance and Lord of the Dance. | |
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The most notable part of the classic Halo theme behind the Gregorian chanting is the prominent adventurous string section. Admittedly though, it lost some of its jauntiness after the first game. | |
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Seitokai Yakuindomo has at least one song in its soundtrack like this, often used during athletic events. | |
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The second episode of Better Call Saul uses the jaunty first movement of Vivaldi's "Concerto alla rustica" to accompany a montage of Jimmy McGill doing mundane work as a public defender. | |
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Also in the musical Come from Away, as the musical traditions of Newfoundland are heavily derived from its significant Irish population. | |
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The Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games have several tracks with a whimsical Irish-sounding melody. Fitting for a series of games where you go on grand adventures with your loyal friend. | |
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Used in Earth Maiden Arjuna during Juna and Tokio's Hard-Work Montage at the mountain man's home. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: The intro theme features a nice violin melody later into the song, fitting a story about sailing away to adventure. The same melody shows up again during the second half of the game, played on a blue fiddle, and it turns out to be some appropriate Magic Music, which reconnects the current Wind Sage (in this case, Makar the Korok) with his mystic ancestry. When the sage plays his fiddle at the temple's gates, the temple is unlocked. | |
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The music that's thematically linked to Rohan. Variations of this main "Rohan theme" pop up throughout The Two Towers and The Return of the King whenever the people of Rohan are doing much of anything noteworthy or dramatic. Interestingly, the soloist on the Rohan theme is actually playing a Hardanger fiddle (a Norwegian variant on the regular violin), albeit playing in a distinctly non-traditional way. | |
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The Hardanger violin The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power can be heard several times as a leitmotif for the Harfoots. | |
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CLANNAD's anime adaptation frequently features violins in the soundtrack as a nod to the Irish connections of its namesake, as well as to invoke a sense of whimsical romanticism and everyday wonder. | |
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The Boondock Saints main theme "Blood of Cuchulainn" fits the two working-class Irish protagonists like a glove. | |
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The anime adaptation of Spice and Wolf emphasizes the hard-working and industrious nature of our traveling merchant heroes by occasionally using violins in its soundtrack. | |
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Far and Away, scored by John Williams, underscores The Determinator spirit of the Irish-battlers played by Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman with this trope. | |
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Braveheart is in love with this trope; its a wonderful example of its flexibility. For although the heroes are Scots (plus an Irishman), the passionate strains of said trope still do much to evoke the energetically violent and rapacious spirits of many Irish and Highlander-Scots sub-cultures. | |
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The Disney Fairies films almost always feature this in their soundtracks. It's set in a fairy kingdom, with heavy emphasis on natural landscapes. | |
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Someday's Dreamers uses these to invoke the innocent wonder of a young magician trying to find her place in the world. | |
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Tangled has this scene to "Kingdom Dance", you can even see the violin and its player at 2:25. | |
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows has some as well, as well as some more "Gypsy" takes on the instrument. | |
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This is invoked in the heartwarming musical score of Atelier Totori: The Adventurer of Arland to accentuate Totori's youthfully enthusiastic idealism. | |
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