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Michael_Morris
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Mumadar Ibn Huzal
Master of Realmslore
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 Posted - 17 Feb 2003 : 16:42:20
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part 1: Downloading the songs as I write this, as well as taking a peek on the website... one could almost make a Realms jukebox with the songs you've got out there. 
part 2: Ok, now I've listened to the songs as well, and... I'm impressed. Sounds real cool and makes for some good gaming background music. I'll download the other (Realms)music as well.
part 3: Criticism...? Hmmm ok; Seems you've used quite an ensemble of bards and musicians... just lacking a vocalist. I'm not a musician, and don't know the right terminology, but the string instruments in the background... if you left them out and kept just the 'main instruments', wouldn't it sound more like somthing which could be performed by... let's say a duo or trio of bards...? |
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Michael_Morris
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Posted - 17 Feb 2003 : 17:56:13
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Originally posted by Mumadar Ibn Huzal
part 3: Criticism...? Hmmm ok; Seems you've used quite an ensemble of bards and musicians... just lacking a vocalist. I'm not a musician, and don't know the right terminology, but the string instruments in the background... if you left them out and kept just the 'main instruments', wouldn't it sound more like somthing which could be performed by... let's say a duo or trio of bards...?
Sorry to have tricked you, but that was a synthesizer. I need to get some better recording equipment before I apply vocals. I can sing roughly half of my songs, but the other half are for female voice. I'll probably post a notice over at the Cumberland College music department that I need a female vocalist. Probably pay her $20 / song.  |
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Echon
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Denmark
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Posted - 17 Feb 2003 : 18:00:53
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Fairly well made all in all. Leavetaking seems to have left me with the best impression so far, due to atmosphere, melodies and composition. It is quite dark and moody, I imagine it fitting well with a trip to a deep forest in the late afternoon as the sun is setting, perhaps during a quiet and cold winterday with a group of adventurers walking amidst the trees, enjoying the last few, warming beams of the sun before it gives away to the night.
Brighter has a somewhat ackward structure at times although it is still a good song. Certain parts of it seem to me like attempts at an bombastic and grand atmosphere and I do not think it succeeds that well.
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"If others had not been foolish, we should be so."
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Ranaghar Tsaran
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Poland
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Posted - 17 Feb 2003 : 18:57:14
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Well...just like Mumadar, I'm impressed.
I'm interested in music and I must say that your music is good, really good. I like to criticise(I hope there is such word) but I don't see many mistakes in your creation...That's good |
"Do not be afraid of greatness. Some achieve greatness, some are born great, and some have greatness thrust upon them..." |
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Alaundo
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
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Posted - 17 Feb 2003 : 19:07:08
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| Of course there's such a word, Ranaghar. Usually spelled "criticize" -- though the 'z' might be an 's' in other parts of the world . . . . |
Hell hath no fury like all of Candlekeep rising in defense of one of its own.
Download the brickfilm masterpiece by Leftfield Studios! See this page for more. |
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Echon
Senior Scribe
Denmark
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Posted - 17 Feb 2003 : 19:09:35
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Of course there's such a word, Ranaghar. Usually spelled "criticize" -- though the 'z' might be an 's' in other parts of the world . . . .
Usually 'z' in American. Usually 's' in British.
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
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Posted - 17 Feb 2003 : 19:16:01
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| Thanks, I can never keep those sorts of changes straight. Neither can most of the foreign students at my college, either . . . |
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
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Posted - 18 Feb 2003 : 00:48:13
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| By the way, nice synth work. Keep it up. |
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Michael_Morris
Acolyte
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Posted - 19 Feb 2003 : 07:45:32
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Originally posted by Echon
Fairly well made all in all. Leavetaking seems to have left me with the best impression so far, due to atmosphere, melodies and composition. It is quite dark and moody, I imagine it fitting well with a trip to a deep forest in the late afternoon as the sun is setting, perhaps during a quiet and cold winterday with a group of adventurers walking amidst the trees, enjoying the last few, warming beams of the sun before it gives away to the night.
Brighter has a somewhat ackward structure at times although it is still a good song. Certain parts of it seem to me like attempts at an bombastic and grand atmosphere and I do not think it succeeds that well.
-Echon
Interesting. Anyway, both songs are tied to specific moments to the novels. Without going into too much detail, the Leave Taking is sung by Elminster in Spellfire and it is a song of mourning. For those without ready access to the book here are the words which I will not post on my site due to copyright concerns.
The sun comes up, and the sun goes down.
Winters pass swiftly, and leaves turn brown.
Watching each day and at last it has found
Another dream to lay under the ground.
Another name lost to the wind,
Wailing away north past ears of flind,
And all shee has been crumbles away.
Of all that great spirit, can nothing stay?
Mystra, Mother, take your own.
Skill and power now dust on bone.
Good or bad, what matters now?
Her song is done, her last bow.
Mother of Art, I pray now to thee,
Take back her true name in mercy,
And as her body is lost to flame,
Greet your own Lansharra again.
The version of Brighter than the Sun on the site for now is the last reprise. If Hand of Fire where made into a movie then this song would appear as the credits begin to roll. The book's tragic ending and the tenderness of the last scene dictates the structure of the song's opening and first verse, but as you move to the third verse it builds in the same way that Hand of Fire itself builds. It is also an attempt to try to lift the spirits of the reader after the book finishes. The song is written for Narm, and while I don't picture him as much of a singer, I certainly think the words of the song jive with his thoughts at the end of the book. If you've read the whole book, read over the Epilogue and then listen to it, you'll have a better idea of what I was trying to attempt.
PS to Alaundo re topic move - Oh.. Ok :) |
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Michael_Morris
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Posted - 19 Feb 2003 : 07:48:35
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Well Met Michael_Morris
And I must just say...marvelous work! 
Thank you Alaundo, and thanks for the explanation. By the way, if you have the server space to hold them, you have my permission to copy and mirror the MP3's here at Candlekeep, or link them directly (though if the songs get too many hits Russ Morrusey might get a little steamed. |
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Alaundo
Head Moderator
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Posted - 19 Feb 2003 : 08:18:04
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Well Met
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Originally posted by Michael_Morris
Thank you Alaundo, and thanks for the explanation. By the way, if you have the server space to hold them, you have my permission to copy and mirror the MP3's here at Candlekeep, or link them directly (though if the songs get too many hits Russ Morrusey might get a little steamed.
Thank you for the offer Michael, you may have noticed your song lyrics had been placed in the Shrine of Milil (with your previous permission of course), and we will gladly host your MP3 files within.
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Elminster
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Posted - 19 Feb 2003 : 09:53:29
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Maybe i should start charging royalty fees if people are making music with my lyrics 
Regardless, i will be downlaoding it soon and will let you know what i think of it, im sure it will be cool |
Enter no conflict against no fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are irrefutable or if you can mesh in a way that the fanatics accept you as God-inspired. This has long been the barrier to science assuming a mantle of divine revelation. Science is so obviously man-made. Fanatics (and many are fanatic about one thing or another) must know where you stand, but more importantly, must recognise who whispers in your ear.
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Ranaghar Tsaran
Learned Scribe
Poland
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Posted - 19 Feb 2003 : 16:26:36
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Now when I sing these songs(I'm a bard, too ), I hear that your music is perfectly made...bravo!! |
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Michael_Morris
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Songs from Shandril's Saga.
