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Somewhere buried in my ancient memory cells, I recall a musical form that was popular in the 19th century called "the legend." Now, I could completely be making that up, but just for the sake of debate, I did a little web search and turned up the following which I offer for your amusement and consideration. It sounds pretty good to me...
Legend: musical accompaniment is now written for many visual formats: opera, movies, video games, & so on ... to tell a story. The music serves as a backdrop for the story. ... The aim of the legend musical form (legend in the story-telling sense) is to re-invent (or "re-envision") this process: if music can be written as a supplementary element of an audio-visual story, why couldn’t the music be written first, leaving the story up to many possibilities? Instead of the idea of writing new soundtracks for old movies or different operatic settings of traditional stories, why not consider the music the basis (a literal ‘cantus firmus’) for many new stories to be written? In the sense that the story is governed by the telling, instead of the other way around, the music becomes the legend, and whatever story is chosen serves as the backdrop.
That may be way too much information about this tiny number I concocted. Bottom line is this: I liked the title. Maybe you will find a story here.
Legend: musical accompaniment is now written for many visual formats: opera, movies, video games, & so on ... to tell a story. The music serves as a backdrop for the story. ... The aim of the legend musical form (legend in the story-telling sense) is to re-invent (or "re-envision") this process: if music can be written as a supplementary element of an audio-visual story, why couldn’t the music be written first, leaving the story up to many possibilities? Instead of the idea of writing new soundtracks for old movies or different operatic settings of traditional stories, why not consider the music the basis (a literal ‘cantus firmus’) for many new stories to be written? In the sense that the story is governed by the telling, instead of the other way around, the music becomes the legend, and whatever story is chosen serves as the backdrop.
That may be way too much information about this tiny number I concocted. Bottom line is this: I liked the title. Maybe you will find a story here.
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Fire_Angel
Sound in structure and very emotional. A lovely listen and another instant download for both pleasure and study.