SotA inspired fan fantasy music - unofficial contest

I've been going through all the pieces, and this one really made me super happy! It's a great epic introduction, and I'd love to see it expanded!

 

Beautiful music, most of it sounds like it belongs in a movie! For SotA, the tracks that have the right feel in my head are definitely 24, 21 and 23 are close, and then my favorite by far is 18 - I wish it were were 3 times longer and loopable.. i'd play it all day!

 

I like the Black Ice Tales Title Theme.. I'd love to hear something you come up with for SotA though.. The other music is truly beautiful. I Dream Manenberg is my favorite.

 

I love the playfulness in this piece. It's such a joy to listen to! You need to finish it! I was in SotA, then it just stopped! More! More!!

 

Hail, and welcome from Ansteorra! I really like your composition and would love to hear more!! Listening to it, I imagine the theme could work great during normal travel, through the woods of the land. It's quite beautiful, of course. I would love to hear an upbeat village/tavern piece if you have one!

 

This is super exciting for me. My favorite of yours by far! strangely, the melody is similar to one that I've had in my head.. so it really feels right! Great work!

 

Oh my god.. this is going to be stuck in my head forever! What a beautiful piece. You seem to no how to create intriguing melodies that just stick in your brain and flourish! I would imagine this being a theme for the elven lands perhaps, it has a feeling of ancient wisdom, mixed with regal beauty.

 

-Your forest-of-the-elves piece would be perfect for the ethereal void, if we had that in SotA. truly ethereal, you nailed it!
-Industrial Flowers could almost be used in enemy workshops, great dungeon theme in general, or even a sewers beneath the big city feel..
-Dancing with the Fae could work inside a great mansion of an evil lord. I see noblemen and aristocrats, but it's a party of evil.. the unvirtuous, putting on a false face of virtue. - beautiful piece!! This could even be Darkstarr's theme!

 

Thank you!

The thought of orchestrating the Dancing with the Fae has crossed my mind, it's nice to hear a request for a longer version. I have currently quite limited time available, but plan on making a three month pause on my studies at Berklee Online at Spring for making music for SotA, if I get positive feedback from the dev team.

And all critique is welcome, that is the way to progress.

 

Thanks!

I have thought of making a 'not so modern feeling' version, if this one does not quite hit the intended mood of the game.

Thank you! I composed the piece to portray the eternal masquerade of the Daoine Sidhe in Irish and Scottish folklore, it's wonderful to hear that it succesfully conveys the feeling.

I would be honored!

 

SirWombat, you're music is exceedingly creative for videogame music, but its also still plenty accessible. Great stuff!

I've been posting in this thread for too long without having an audio file to show for it. I've written enough sheet music, but its time I linked a recording so people can actually hear something. This piece, Good Morning Brittany, is going to be developed further with the help of my friend and colleague Ome the bard, but here is the first demo, mixed by another friend of mine, Christopher Swist, Artist in Residence at Keene State College. Shoutouts to him.

Also, the website linked is still under construction (I'm new at HTML and CSS), and the WordPress part of the site is just filler content so ignore it.

EDIT: If you don't mind helping me out, let me know what browser you're using, and if the audio player on the linked page worked for you. Thanks!
EDIT2: Website is now complete. Feel free to browse it for mediocre recipes and dense sheet music!

 

Mordecai surprised me with Good Morning Brittany this morning. I just love this piece Mordecai.
I think it could make for some great town music.

 

Thank you!

Unfortunately the player does not work with neither iOS7 Safari or OSX Safari 6.0.5.

 

I started at the <audio> tag, but it seems that most browsers don't support it currently. I couldn't get it to work it all, but <object> (what I used) worked for the most part.

 

I think its a little premature to be throwing blows like that, isn't it? ( )

To answer your question though, I use FF.

 

Some great stuff, really enjoyed listening to a lot of these, thanks for sharing Anyone done a particular tavern one yet Omni-psyence, really liked whisp and willow.

 

I have a tavern song in the works. I'm hoping to get some demos of the newer stuff up before Christmas. The biggest issue I'm having is finding a lute I like.

 

Here are two short themes that could end up as tavern songs. They are still works in progress.
https://soundcloud.com/sirwombat/guitar-theme-1
https://soundcloud.com/sirwombat/guitar-theme-2

I've not had the time to complete them yet, but feel free to comment on them.

 

https://soundcloud.com/maus-merryjest/shattered-moonrise-shroud-of

Shattered Moonrise.

 

https://soundcloud.com/maus-merryjest/the-honorable-ondarivas

New composition for Sota: The Honorable Ondarivas.


I wanted something regal, so I took the Dorian tune "L'Homme Arme" from the Renaissance (first appearance circa 1453). But then using the theme by itself which, admittedly does have its regal charm, was unsatisfactory, so I decided to dust off my old counterpoint and give the tune a bit of a treatment. In the process, I transposed the melody from Dorian to G-Dorian.

The treatment goes as such:
-Statement of Theme
-Fugato (three voices, aborted fugue at the exposition)
-Retrograde theme, inverted retrograde theme, inverted and retrograde played together
-Restatement of theme and capitulation.

I tried to keep in mind the Early Renaissance's preference for parallel fifths and sixths.

Orchestration:
-Two horns-
-Viola da gamba (alternates between tonic pedal and melodic)
-Base drum.