If you could write a concerto based on Dracula, what instrument would you choose to represent Count Dracula?

Question

Which instruments would you choose to represent the following characters?

Jonathan Harker

The three Vampires

Mina

Lucy

Dr. Seward

Renfield

Van Helsing

Quincey Morris

Lord Godalming

The crew of the Demeter

[i.e., in Ma Mere l'Oye, in the Conversation of Beauty and the Beast, the Beast is represented by the concert bassoon. So, if you were to create concerto for Bram Stoker's Dracula, what instruments would you use to represent the above characters?]

Answer 1

- The Count would be mostly cello but switches with other stuff now and then, depending on what he is doing. I think he also gets alot of sax.

- 3 vamps and Renfield, 3 flutes and an oboe

   or 4 flutes or whatever else is varying high pitched and    

   squeaky.

- Dr. Seward a kazoo and musical saw! (Renfield is definitely maybe both flute and saw and kazoo in the background cuz Dr. Seward is always thinking out loud, that flippen momohead.  And maybe you can hire somebody to smash some cornflakes in a bowl as sound effect when Renfield chows down on some Beetles.)

- Van Helsing...Bagpipes, drums, trumpets and a big fat gong

- Quincey Morris and Lord Godalming are piano and maybe an occasional children's bicycle horn honking.

and the crew of the Demeter maybe all of it building up one by one until screaming and clashing and crashing all at once together and then just this long pause and rest.

- Jonathan, Mina and Lucy are violins but Jon boy might get a lil sax with it now and then when with the vamps but I think the Drac and Mina get more hot and heavy sax then all of em.  So if this time around we make it a comedy, then maybe  Mina and The Dragon can finally get some good old fashioned banjo and lots and lots of  battling accordians from h**l cuz they like dancing together so I would really like to see how they would look while stomping in cowboy boots Cajun style to some serious Buckwheat Zydeco. And if they do this on some old wood planks with a bunch of empty paint cans on it, it makes a nice badda bing sound.

Maybe we can get Diamonda Galas screaming in glossilalia, along with Buckwheat while crosses are burning in the background behind the whole orchestra (who is dressed of course appropriately  in nothing but rubber bathing caps and goggles and them big old flippers so they can tap their feet along while blood is squirting from all their necks and collecting in puddles at their feet, well would definitely make a splash), as everybody in The Theater of the Damned is trying to squirt each other with super soakers filled with holy water. Yes... I think that would be just lovely, don't you?

Whatever you decide to do, just don't forget the sax.

Thank you very much.

Answer 2

Violin

Answer 3

this reminds me of forgetting sarah marshall lol probably an organ on freaky strings

Answer 4

Would it be a Concerto? With this many voices, you may knock yourself out of that genre... Anyways, I've always loved that old "Victorian Gothic Parlor" feel, with two violins, a viola, and an organ. Do not keep the organ in the continuo either. Cello and Bass, is a very good substitution for continuo when using a keyed instrument in the melody. Those three strings should be the three vampires, and the Organ should be the Count, your focused melody.