Sequence and dreams

From Laurie Niles' violin blog, lyrics for Vivaldi's A minor violin concerto:

There are a lot of re-
There are a lot of re-
There are a lot of repeated phrases here,

And what is difficult
And what is difficult
And what is difficult is remembering which of them comes next.

Now starts my solo violin, violin, violin part
and the orchestra tries to drown me out.

...

This is what is called a se-
This is what is called a se-
This is what is called a se-
This is what is called a se-
This is what is called a se-
This is what is called a se-
This is what is called a sequence.

There's also a violinist's view of Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste:

IV. Allegro molto
The fly from the second movement has now grown to be the size of Mothra, and it is chasing you. It chases you up stairways that have locked doors at the end, through mazes and tunnels. You keep bumping into dead ends, turning around, going another way, counting randomly placed measures in quick five. In the end the giant fly swallows you alive, smiles and lets out a big burp.

(Via Reflections in d minor.)

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