David Cameron's humming transformed into sweeping orchestral tracks
Yesterday David Cameron was caught on his mic humming a bittersweet tune as he confirmed Theresa May would become Prime Minister this week.
Today, there's a full analysis and a number of lush, orchestral variations. Of course there is.
Classic FM have provided an in-depth look at Cameron's maudlin tune - is it a sign of relief? Regret?
"Let’s start with the time signature," Daniel Ross writes in his dissection. "A brisk 3/4, with a crotchet roughly equalling 108 a minute, suggests activity. Positivity, even. But 3/4 is not the most immediately stable of signatures. It’s easy to feel secure in 3/4, but for just a couple of bars it’s disconcerting - especially when starting with an anacrusis. Harmonically, too, it’s ambivalent, confusing. It’s almost fanfare-like in that confident leap of a fourth from G to C, but it quickly loses confidence when it mirrors the ascent later in the bar, plummeting down to D sharp, forming an awkward implied triad..."
Read the full analysis on Classic FM.
As well as that, a bunch composers have frantically created impressively well-rounded takes on his pretty little ditty.
Thomas Hewitt Jones' 2:41 "Fantasy On David Cameron" is moving and complex and was "written and recorded hastily between midnight and 2am" on cello and piano. John Denno, meanwhile, knocks it up to 11 with his orchestral salvo "Cameron's Lament In C Minor" (here's the sheet music). Phil Toms goes even further, sharing a "work in progress" titled "Cameron's Lament" that sounds like the turbulent final act to a particularly dark opera. Gabriela Montero shares a baroque-inspired piano improvisation. Then there's this.
Thomas Hewitt Jones - "Fantasy On David Cameron"
John Denno - "Cameron's Lament In C Minor"
Phil Toms - "Cameron's Lament"
Gabriela Montero - "Cameron Hums...!"
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