Raleigh and Spencer

Raleigh and Spencer (Trad.)
I’m fascinated with how sometimes you can hear a fiddle tune purely through the bowed rhythm with all the layers of melody and harmony striped away. Tommy Jarrell’s playing of Raleigh and Spencer is one of these examples where once you strip it all back, the tune is still present by the rhythm alone. I wanted to take that idea to the extreme in this arrangement and lean into the atonailty of a twelve tone row along with free improvisation while the tune still plays. -George