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<blockquote data-quote="Mary_Crowell" data-source="post: 6124608" data-attributes="member: 6701853"><p>[MENTION=13107]tomBitonti[/MENTION], I know what you mean. I'm not sure what kind of insight [MENTION=6684394]Oversquid[/MENTION] is looking for exactly. Just terms? A real understanding of how music is put together?</p><p></p><p>I have a campaign that is strongly music based, and I've posted one blog entry about it here at ENWorld. </p><p></p><p>Some cool things to google for ideas would be the following:</p><p>Doctrine of Ethos: Music is mathematics. The universe is made of mathematics. Therefore music is affected by and can affect the universe--remake it, control it, etc. I wrote a song about it. </p><p><a href="http://magnusretail.com/Mary_Crowell/lyrics/doctrine_of_ethos.html" target="_blank">http://magnusretail.com/Mary_Crowell/lyrics/doctrine_of_ethos.html</a></p><p></p><p> Doctrine of Affections: Outgrowth of Doctrine of Ethos. Baroque composers used specific music patterns like the 'sighing motif' to convey emotions in their pieces of music. More importantly, they liked a specific movement (piece of music that can stand alone, but is actually part of a larger work) to convey only one given emotion. (Classical and Romantic composers have changing moods and tempos throughout their movements and larger works.)</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine_of_the_affections" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine_of_the_affections</a></p><p></p><p>Programmatic music: Music conveys idea, place, personality. Sometimes it is obvious: cuckoo motif or hunting horns. Sometimes it is trying to use the musical patterns to convey the ocean, or love and death. Richard Wagner loved to use leit motifs (bits of music that are associated with a person, idea, weapon) throughout his operas. John Williams uses this in Star Wars. Darth Vader's imperial march is hidden right near the end of Anakin's theme music while he's being tested for midichlorians. Hector Berlioz had his idee fixe. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphonie_fantastique" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphonie_fantastique</a></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_music" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_music</a></p><p></p><p>Maybe these might help?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mary_Crowell, post: 6124608, member: 6701853"] [MENTION=13107]tomBitonti[/MENTION], I know what you mean. I'm not sure what kind of insight [MENTION=6684394]Oversquid[/MENTION] is looking for exactly. Just terms? A real understanding of how music is put together? I have a campaign that is strongly music based, and I've posted one blog entry about it here at ENWorld. Some cool things to google for ideas would be the following: Doctrine of Ethos: Music is mathematics. The universe is made of mathematics. Therefore music is affected by and can affect the universe--remake it, control it, etc. I wrote a song about it. [url]http://magnusretail.com/Mary_Crowell/lyrics/doctrine_of_ethos.html[/url] Doctrine of Affections: Outgrowth of Doctrine of Ethos. Baroque composers used specific music patterns like the 'sighing motif' to convey emotions in their pieces of music. More importantly, they liked a specific movement (piece of music that can stand alone, but is actually part of a larger work) to convey only one given emotion. (Classical and Romantic composers have changing moods and tempos throughout their movements and larger works.) [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine_of_the_affections[/url] Programmatic music: Music conveys idea, place, personality. Sometimes it is obvious: cuckoo motif or hunting horns. Sometimes it is trying to use the musical patterns to convey the ocean, or love and death. Richard Wagner loved to use leit motifs (bits of music that are associated with a person, idea, weapon) throughout his operas. John Williams uses this in Star Wars. Darth Vader's imperial march is hidden right near the end of Anakin's theme music while he's being tested for midichlorians. Hector Berlioz had his idee fixe. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphonie_fantastique[/url] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_music[/url] Maybe these might help? [/QUOTE]
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