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Jayli's Theme - The One Without a Name
I am trying to depict Jocarra's internal struggle regarding how she is perceived by others - always, tales of a demonic beast precede her and shroud her truth from sight, so that never is she Jocarra, but rather the N'allai Wysae-roja, the One who Holds the Key - the One without a Name. For her, much of the story is spent seeking one who can see beyond the myths and half-truths - blessed and cursed with power and grandeur, it takes much time before she finds such an individual...
I did my best to fill my music with a sense of foreboding and hesitance, yet despite the lingering uncertainty, there comes the call of obligation to serve the greater good in a time of war and strife - symbolized by a subtle call to arms in the woodwinds. The melody is graceful but haunted as many minor keys are. Instrumentation builds to a climax, then fades a whisper... but her story is not forgotten.
My first attempt to compose anything in Fruity Loops 5 - I may rerecord the midi flute with my own playing, but I have a feeling I'll be too lazy... I've never used this program before, and I really don't know how to add any effects or anything like that - I would like to add more dynamics and perhaps some rubato, and it definitely needs a ritardando before the transition into the second part of the piece, and at the end, too... but oh well.
FL Studios 5, plus some editting in Adobe Audition. 4 minutes 53 seconds. Took approximately 15 hours to learn the program, write/transcribe the music into FL, and tweak out most of the bugs. Music inspired by Hans Zimmer's work.
Story and characters © Jen Philpot (The Tripartitus)
I did my best to fill my music with a sense of foreboding and hesitance, yet despite the lingering uncertainty, there comes the call of obligation to serve the greater good in a time of war and strife - symbolized by a subtle call to arms in the woodwinds. The melody is graceful but haunted as many minor keys are. Instrumentation builds to a climax, then fades a whisper... but her story is not forgotten.
My first attempt to compose anything in Fruity Loops 5 - I may rerecord the midi flute with my own playing, but I have a feeling I'll be too lazy... I've never used this program before, and I really don't know how to add any effects or anything like that - I would like to add more dynamics and perhaps some rubato, and it definitely needs a ritardando before the transition into the second part of the piece, and at the end, too... but oh well.
FL Studios 5, plus some editting in Adobe Audition. 4 minutes 53 seconds. Took approximately 15 hours to learn the program, write/transcribe the music into FL, and tweak out most of the bugs. Music inspired by Hans Zimmer's work.
Story and characters © Jen Philpot (The Tripartitus)
Category Music / Fantasy
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 120 x 72px
File Size 4.48 MB
Thank you very much for the input - I really do appreciate that you took the time to listen and then leave a helpful and encouraging comment :3 And yes, it is supposed to be dark in colour, but not overly so, and yes, I realise that the overall volume could be upped a little bit. However, I messed up the file and lost a lot of progress, and I'd probably have to remake it all over again, which is annoying. I would do so, though, if I had a better program for orchestral-style music...
Well going back on a comment I said awhile ago I see that you have added a lot of longer pieces of music, I just hadn’t got to them yet. This is pretty amazing; especially considering it’s your first time with the program. I think you did really well at reaching your intended sound. The beginning does have a real sorrowful almost lost sound to it; the drums and woodwinds slowly beckoning the character forward, though it sounds like it’s an unwanted call or uncertain at best. Not till maybe the last 50 seconds does it sound like the character has finally accepted the call.
Really liked the wind in the beginning and just the overall sorrowful sound to it. To much music now days is either upbeat or screaming about your problems. Can’t find much music modernly that actually tries to bring out a person’s sadness, anxiety, or uncertainty in music itself rather than in lyrics, seems to be something that’s for the most part lost to the romantic period of classical music. Very amazing product and you spent very little time on it with a program you didn’t know so that’s pretty impressive. Congrats
Really liked the wind in the beginning and just the overall sorrowful sound to it. To much music now days is either upbeat or screaming about your problems. Can’t find much music modernly that actually tries to bring out a person’s sadness, anxiety, or uncertainty in music itself rather than in lyrics, seems to be something that’s for the most part lost to the romantic period of classical music. Very amazing product and you spent very little time on it with a program you didn’t know so that’s pretty impressive. Congrats
Mmm, thanks again for such a wonderful comment :)
Yes, I was trained in music, and I have a passion for music that helps guide me in focusing more on the actual music than any words put to it. In fact, I have a hard time hearing lyrics, in that I tend to hear the human voice as just another instrument.
Yes, I was trained in music, and I have a passion for music that helps guide me in focusing more on the actual music than any words put to it. In fact, I have a hard time hearing lyrics, in that I tend to hear the human voice as just another instrument.
Yeah, I’m not very fond of lyrics myself, at least if I can understand them. To much music now days is just complete garbage when it comes to the actually depth on a composition level and then they just throw some lyrics that’s basically someone talking with a bit of musical rhythm to it. When lyrics are in good music I often just find them distracting. Though I like a several songs in Latin, German, and Russian, or just in general that aren’t straight English. Makes the human voice, as you said, like an instrument instead of a narrator, also makes the music open to meaning/interpretation for anyone listening to it rather then forcing it to have a single theme. If done properly the human voice can be one of the most beautiful sounds out there.
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