HEADCANNONS SUPPORTED BY CANNON SHERLOCK VIOLIN SONGS!
- Link to the song which Sherlock plays in your violin headcannon.
- Then share Why/How does this song fit into your headcannon.
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- Violin Parita No. 1 - Johann Sebastian Bach
Obviously, Since this was the BBC-verse supposed ‘key’ that Moriarty tapped with violin-fingers. I’m making the assumption that Moriarty knew this song held a special significance to Sherlock. Especially concerning that he ‘hid the key safely within Sherlock’s mind palace.’ I imagine then, that both men understood Parita No. 1 as Sherlock’s Mind Palace Theme Song. In my headcannon this is the song he plays while he mentally walks through his mind palace, the song he plays when his mind is racing and he is feeling overwhelmed, when he cant find an answer, or when he is trying to figure out Moriarty’s next move.
- Chaconne for Solo Violin - Johann Sebastian Bach
However, when Moriarty walks up the stairs of 221B This is the song Sherlock plays as he waits for him to arrive. Moriarty remarks that Bach would have been appalled. So while Moriarty and Sherlock both love the same composer, and both know the story of his dying moments. Moriarty favors his Chaconne, while Sherlock prefers his Parita. They respectively demonstrate this knowledge to each other in their own ways,but ultimately, all of this demonstrates that they really are two sides of the same coin.
- Praeludium and Allegro - Kreisler
Seduce John Song. It is extremely beautiful, yet astonishingly simple, I feel Sherlock would have an appreciation for this song in regards to the chemistry of love. (Astonishingly simple yet destructively beautiful). It would in my headcannon become the pavlov-sex-trigger-song for the two. Basically it is the song Sherlock plays when he is sexually frustrated.
- Lieder - Mendelssohn
That he could play pieces, and difficult pieces, I knew well, because at my request he has played me some of Mendelssohn’s Lieder, and other favourites.
— A Study in Scarlet
ACD Canonically, John’s favorite violin piece. Most of you will recognize the composer, however, from this song.
- Carmen Fantasie - Pablo De Sarasate
- Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen - Pablo De Sarasate
“Sarasate plays at the St. James’s Hall this afternoon,” he remarked. “What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare you for a few hours?”
—- The Red-Headed League
“All the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the music, while his gently smiling face and languid, dreamy eyes were as unlike those of Holmes, the sleuth-hound Holmes, the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent as it was possible to conceive.”
—- The Red Headed League
I found this quote about Sarasate online, and it explains it perfectly.
In the Arthur Conan Doyle canon, Sherlock Holmes adored Sarasate, and he dragged John Watson along to see a concert in The Red-Headed League.
Sarasate was a virtuoso violinist from the turn of the century. Sarasate began composing because he decided that none of the existing violin repertoire was good enough for his talent.
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- Nicolo Paganini - Caprice No. 3 in E Minor
- Nicolo Paganini - Caprice No. 5 in A Minor
- Nicolo Paganini - Caprice No. 15 in E Minor
We had a pleasant little meal together, during which Holmes would talk about nothing but violins, narrating with great exultation how he had purchased his own Stradivarius, which was worth at least five hundred guineas, at a Jew broker’s in Tottenham Court Road for fifty-five shillings. This led him toPaganini, and we sat for an hour over a bottle of claret while he told me anecdote after anecdote of that extraordinary man.
—- The Cardboard Box
- Swan Lake (AKA Lake in the Moonlight) - Tchaikovsky
This song is basically the Reichenbach fall with swans. Sherlock in all his poetic and brooding melodrama…Of course he would play this song. For those of you unfamiliar with the story its basically the Swan Princess crossed with Romeo and Juliet sans the disney ending.
Prince meets princess turned-swan, the only way that she can be released from the evil curse is if true love is declared to her.
A few days later, he sees the beautiful swan at a bachelor party and is thrilled. but ZOMG the swan is really the evil sorcerer’s daughter put under an enchantment to look like the princess.
At the end of the night he declares his love for her, but realizes his has made a terrible mistake when he sees the real swan princess through the window. He runs to her, but it is too late.
She is so upset that she jumps off of a cliff and kills herself.
In a desperate attempt to be with his true love, the prince follows her off the cliff.Before you say, wait wut? Let me explain you a thing.
I observe that there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is introspective, and I want to introspect.
— The Red Headed League
To begin with the song was based off a poem, written by Friedrich Schiller, which captured the imagination of Schiller’s contemporaries like no other political work. It speaks of a confidence in humanity, coupled with a burning desire to overcome the obstacles and suspicions that stand in the way of the unity of the species.
Beethoven had planed to compose this piece from the age of 22 but at the point of actually composing it, he was already deaf. Its long appeal to Beethoven lay in it’s intensely subversive and revolutionary core. For at it’s heart, it imagines a world whose nations live in peace with one another. The poem was originally an “Ode to Freedom” (Freedom as in sovereign liberty) and the word “Joy” (Freude instead of Freiheit) was substituted to present a less overtly political theme at the time.
The deeper more political final stanzas of the poem are not included in the lyrics set by Beethoven no doubt due to the climate of political repression for such radical ideas as unity of the species and the brotherhood of man. Which is what this passionate paean to freedom envisions.
He may have lived in a city of culture but he was still a subject of the Habsburg monarchy. Beethoven though knew the text by heart and he no doubt imagined his audience did likewise.
Coupled with Sherlock’s preference for German composers, this song has his name written all over it.
Seduction. I mean. Come on. It’s the effing
“fuck me song”‘Tango Song’. I totally imagine Sherlock playing this for John and his current girlfriend in some sort of humorous Sherlock-ignoring-personal-boundaries type of situation.
- Fix You - Coldplay (Violin Cover)
Let’s be honest here, it is kind of their unofficial song in the fandom. I also wrote a ficlet about it.
He initially wanted to be a pirate. I Imagine he plays this mainstream song like porn when no one is around.
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sherlocksexualfrustrationblog has created an absolutely fantastic classical Sherlock playlist called “I want to Introspect. I pulled some of the songs and ACD quotes, from this very list. I would encourage everyone to check it out!
THIS LIST IS OPEN AND ONGOING! REBLOG AND ADD TO IT OR REVIST TO SEE MY ADDED SONGS!
EDIT:
Made into a YOUTUBE PLAYLIST by request!