Tharatariel10 she/her Posted July 8, 2016 Report Share Posted July 8, 2016 Here is my first musical composition for the Stormlight Archive. This is what I imagined for Tien's theme, which would (theoretically) be used for Kaladin's memories throughout The Way of Kings. The first melody you hear (A section) is for Tien - it's meant to be song-like and sad. The B section has some major chords and is more or less Kaladin's hero theme. It brings a sense of determination and resolve to the overall "Tien theme" which seems appropriate for Kaladin. My goal was to create a theme for both characters that brings together the emotion of their story. This is all on piano - although feel free to imagine a full orchestra! :-D WhenIf I figure out a program to make that happen, it will definitely be on my list of things to do! (Please excuse the "lameness" of the video. I only have Windows Live Movie Maker and for anyone who is familiar with it: you know my pain. For those of you who don't: it stinks. But, hey, I'm a musician not a film maker :-P) Enjoy! 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erklitt Posted July 8, 2016 Report Share Posted July 8, 2016 Got goosebumps. Thank you! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tetriona she/her Posted July 9, 2016 Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 Storms! As I said regarding your "Veden's lullaby" rendition... WELL DONE INDEED!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirahound she/her Posted July 9, 2016 Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 Right. I vote that if/when the books are adapted to screen, you are hired to compose the music. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amanuensis he/him Posted July 9, 2016 Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 21 hours ago, Erklitt said: Got goosebumps. Thank you! Same for me! Eyes even watered up a bit towards the end 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erklitt Posted July 9, 2016 Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 Just enjoyed it for the ??th time. Just wow again. One remark: For a not-so-quick reader, the text sometimes changes too quickly. I like to spell out the words in my head, and got a little rushed now and then. Which is such a pity. Just a suggestion for your next work - which I really hope we'll hear soon! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tharatariel10 she/her Posted July 9, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 5 hours ago, Erklitt said: Just enjoyed it for the ??th time. Just wow again. One remark: For a not-so-quick reader, the text sometimes changes too quickly. I like to spell out the words in my head, and got a little rushed now and then. Which is such a pity. Just a suggestion for your next work - which I really hope we'll hear soon! Wow, thanks! My sister @esamitch told me the same thing - you're right! Honestly, I just got sick of editing it! Haha again - not a movie-maker. I have no patience. The reason I kept it is because I was more concerned about getting the quotes to go with specific points of the music. So I sacrificed readability for drama...Thank you for the critique though. Maybe I'll get better at creating movies :-P Incidentally, the two I'm working on now are an over-arching theme for The Way of Kings, interchangeably Dalinar's theme (exciting, "hero' music!) I'm also trying to create a more lively Shallan theme that can easily relate to the lullaby (musically speaking), but is from when you first meet her in SA when she enters Kharbranth. On 7/8/2016 at 5:00 PM, Erklitt said: Got goosebumps. Thank you! 5 hours ago, Amanuensis said: Same for me! Eyes even watered up a bit towards the end Hooray! That's what I was going for! You guys are amazing! Thanks for being so encouraging! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dani she/her Posted July 10, 2016 Report Share Posted July 10, 2016 Wish I could give you more than one upvotes for that. It's lovely! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esamitch she/her Posted July 10, 2016 Report Share Posted July 10, 2016 So glad you posted this @Tharatariel10/big sis! And thanks everyone for being so nice...It took some convincing on my part to get her to put this out there! I can tell you that Dalinar's theme is coming along awesomely, and it's my favorite out of the bunch so far. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erklitt Posted July 10, 2016 Report Share Posted July 10, 2016 8 minutes ago, esamitch said: So glad you posted this @Tharatariel10/big sis! And thanks everyone for being so nice...It took some convincing on my part to get her to put this out there! I can tell you that Dalinar's theme is coming along awesomely, and it's my favorite out of the bunch so far. I gather from this that we all owe you thanks - have an upvote! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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