Le Mp3 - http://www.mediafire.com/?vc7l2l13bvx3xue

Let's start with the basics. Octavia is best pony. Now, with that out of the way, from a musician's perspective, she has acquired some very interesting fanon characterizations: A bookworm buried in Bach, a struggling alcoholic with an intolerance for the bourgeois, the list drags on. I like to imagine her as something of a pistol. Intensely passionate about her craft, a little bit pretentious, but good-hearted. So deep is my affection for this character that had but 10 seconds of screen time, I wrote this brief piano trio in her honor.

Personnel - Spike on Piano, Octavia on Cello (Yes, CELLO) and Pinkie Pie on Violin, of course!

The art featured in the main image is "Swoosh" by swaetshrit. Comment on it here: http://swaetshrit.deviantart.com/art/swoosh-258726261

The closing image is none other than an excerpt from the brilliant comic "Allegrezza."

Read it here:  http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/08/comic-allegrezza.html

And finally, the music itself. Apologies for being somewhat hung up on the main theme song, but it's just so adaptable. You'll find threads of the theme woven throughout the piece until it really surfaces in the coda's closing bars. This is probably one of my more challenging pieces for the listener. It's a fast and aggressive, truncated sonata-allegro with some wild harmonies. Just the same I think/hope you'll enjoy "Octavia's Triptych!"