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Beautiful ✦ 04. Horizon Glow

V6

[Instrumental, a solo cello holds the low G from before, felt piano enters with the motif in the middle register one note at a time, 66 BPM, G major, close microphone, felt hammers audible, 10 bars] [Instrumental, two violins and a viola enter on one long held chord, shivering tremolo, rounded bowed tone, the piano motif continues beneath, 10 bars] [Instrumental, the piano's trailing echoes break into a glittering cloud of tiny fragments like stars, the strings hold the chord, 10 bars] [Instrumental, the whole quartet of two violins, viola and cello changes chord once every two bars, the first violin carries the motif high, 10 bars] [Instrumental, the tremolo strings swirl wide across the stereo field from left to right and back, the glittering echoes continue, 10 bars] [Instrumental, viola and cello play a steady rocking figure of quarter notes for forward movement, the piano motif with glittering echoes above, 10 bars] [Instrumental, the violins rise to their highest register, the horizon widening, the first peak of the track, 10 bars] [Instrumental, the strings thin to one held chord, the piano alone plays the motif with glittering echoes, 10 bars] [Instrumental, the cello and viola take the motif in their warm register, the violins hold high tremolo above, 10 bars] [Instrumental, all strings rise together over rolled piano chords, the brightest point of the track, luminous and wide, 10 bars] [Instrumental, the strings sustain one long chord, the piano echoes keep glittering, the volume falls one step every two bars, 10 bars] [Instrumental, the harmony turns from G major toward E minor, the cello moves to a low E, the violins hold a long B, 10 bars] [Instrumental, the strings thin to cello and viola, the piano plays one note per bar with glittering echoes, 10 bars] [Instrumental, one held E minor chord in strings and piano, one last glittering echo, nothing else, the volume only falls until the sound ends naturally, 10 bars] [END]