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Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc
Oh, and one thing for you music-makers. My brother (who is actually quite a music maker) suddenly expressed his interest in the subject, so it could be that he might lend a hand or two to the music-making if you wish and if it's possible. What do you think? If that will be possible, then... hmm... how should we do this... let's say you could PM me some things about what you are planning or what you'd need or whatever with the music, and then we'll see.
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Good to hear that! More people in the fellowship the merrier!
The first problem though is that there is no planning going on at the moment. And it's hard to plan if we don't have a deal about which chapter we should go for in the first place. I myself might vote for
the Ring goes south as it has diffent moods and quite a lot of dialogue.
And what would your brother wish to do
Legate, compose, arrange, play - and if he'd play which instruments he could do? The easiest thing is when he wishes to play then we can send him the background when that is ready and he can either play the violin or oboe or electric guitar (or whatever instrument he plays) right over it the way he wishes or we could send him notes and give him the beat. If he wishes to join in with the composing then we should make some deals about who takes which part of the chapter. And even if he doesn't I should have something like a deal with
McCaber anyway. I mean I can continue developing this one I've made this far if
McCaber doesn't say he wishes to do exactly that part. All this counting on the possibility that we'll end up doing this chapter that is.
If we take the passage I've made now the scene will go on for something like 10 minutes and it should mainly be a background thing - like all this music should be. We can use the pauses in the narration or the changing of the settings in the book as places where we can bring forwards some musical ideas for something like ten seconds at the time but probably no more.
If the stuff I made (well, a lengthier rerecording of it including a lot of variation) would start with the departing of the fellowship from Rivendell I'd say the next place to make some real changes - not taking into account the variations - would be Sam's night-watch the earliest, probably only when they start climbing Caradhras. But even there the changes should be more smooth than abrupt. With the attack of Caradhras and the coming of the snow we should have a totally new theme to be sure - even if there could be remnants of the score before it.
And we definitively need a Rivendell theme in the beginning - spiced with some hobbit-like things as there are long sequences of the hobbits discussing before the company sets off.
If
the Ring Goes South is going to be the chapter we will make...