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Twelvefold - Mars - The Forth

Auld Lang Syne - tin whistle version by Leyna Robinson-Stone

You can find the original music video on YouTube

 

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Further examples of musical works where the perfect fourth sounds very clearly:

Amazing Grace. The melody opens with a very clear ascending perfect fourth. This spacious leap immediately gives the tune its open, calm and almost ‘breathing’ quality. 

Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5, First Movement — the second subject. The lyrical second theme, beginning around bar 50, is characterised by long sustained notes connected by unusually wide melodic intervals. Perfect fourths, together with octaves and sevenths, are an important part of its sound.

Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser — the Pilgrims’ Chorus (Pilgerchor). In the broad chorale-like statement of the pilgrims’ melody, fourths occur within slowly unfolding phrases and are separated by quieter melodic movement.