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I got a little stuck on the actual Oath part. I was following V2 for this piece, but they do the middle section slightly differently, and somewhere there is a transition that I can't catch that shifts the music over - else it stops making sense. Or maybe they key change without telling anyone. Or I just can't hear it right. Dunno. I looked through the other versions, and for the most part they follow V1's music, which lies smoother on paper and makes sense and matches up. So I think I will go with that version for the middle section, because V2 seems to be doing something odd compared to all the rest and I can't quite grasp what. Most of last night and this morning was figuring out how to fit the melody back into the chords, no great progress there, but I hope that in a few days I'll have the whole thing finished, considering the number of repeats.
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Strictly speaking this isn't Zong news (though a preview might have snuck in), but it's definitely Zong-adjacent: when I went back to the office I started wearing a variety of pin-badges on my jacket, which finally gave me an excuse to order one of Jenny Dolfen's beautiful enamels. Of course, then I got sent back to work from home again, so it's not going to be used, but... it came!
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![]() Now I wanna get a pin like that. Except that all of my pins have a very short life, and usually end it by being brutally deformed and ripped from my bag after snagging on something. The Sil characters tend to already suffer enough, without a metaphorical re-enactment. But in Zong-related news, you are not the only one who gets easily distracted! I was supposed to be preparing for my rotation yesterday. Instead... Oath: the dress rehearsal, and sung for singability test, with no attempts to correct the off key bits. You can also tell that still my brain insists that blood in the veins can only turn anemic. ![]() There are many variations in how exactly to sing it, even among the different performances. I think that the most difficult thing will actually be to agree on a timing/rhythm for each line for duo-ing if we can get someone to join you (possibly Legate again; no one else has responded to me so far - but if we're truly desperate, there is one more person I can try. I'll have to ask someone to ask someone to ask for his contact info though, I haven't seen him in a decade...). I had a few things I wanted to run by you. In no particular order: - The middle part, with the Oath. Too quiet? I was going for something ethereal (holy?), not sure how that worked out. - The versions differ in how they sing the middle part. There is the V2 "sing the whole thing on one note" option. There is the "have it go one note higher, one note lower" option. And a couple of performances alternated between the two. The way it's written it can be sung any way, but I tried to match it to the way I was singing it: single note for first and third stanzas, alternating on second stanza. The pros of this approach are that it emphasizes each part anew, there's no endless repetition, and it highlights "Breath of the West Wind" more if you hit it from the lower constant note rather than the alternating ones which are closer to it. On the downside, it's probably harder to sing this way. Let me know what you think is a good balance for you in terms of sings well - I can alter the music to put a bit more cues in to help match that, maybe. - I used an un-dirged and slightly un-heroed version of the first attempt for the last stanza, "one by one seven Oath-bound warriors fall". I think that one can go with a bit of despair/heroism, especially if now Cel'n'Cur kinda take over Mae'n'Mag. But if you think it's too much, I can tone it down some more. - Speaking of that verse, I played around with the rhythm on "those who... those still... Oath will still". Is there a version that you particularly like or dislike? Or should I just make it all in unison? - Do you think "Swear to this Oath" should be sung by CelnCur, or by someone else (ie one or more of the female crew)? I vote for it to be recorded separately, at least, so that it doesn't cut off the previous phrases short to draw breath. - Actually, with regards to that line: "swear to this Oath" vs "sworn is the Oath"? Thanks to this song, I finally learned how to do the 3 note conclusion at the end, which many musical pieces use, but I didn't know which chords they use to make that effect. Now that I think about it, I've learned quite a few tricks while arranging the Zong. It's been quite educational. ^.^
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I still can't get over the fading in and out of colour. And the flickering on "Vault of the Heavens etc" is perfect! What is the structure in the background? It looks very fitting, but my Tolkien lore is not enough to identify it with certainty. Formenos?
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Well, here is the tweaked version, with a somewhat smoother transition between the quiet and rock parts, and a few minor tweaks. I may have accidentally changed the slow-down timing at the end. I think I put it back to how it was before, but I can't be sure. I hope I haven't shifted it enough to mess up the graphics timing at the very end. Sorry.
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The Muppets' Noldolante! Starring Michael Caine as an increasingly exasperated Finrod.
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I thought about Tirion, but discarded it as a possibility just cause I don't normally imagine it in Feanorian colours. The tower does look very elegant, so I thought it can't really be the fortress-like Formenos, or Himring or any other ME Feanorian structures. But I was fixated on the colours. And it does look a bit scary. Though, I suppose, being robbed of other forms of lighting except for angry torches, Mindon would unintentionally acquire the red and black, and the scariness too. Which is again even more fitting than I realized initially when I thought it was just a Feanor-themed tower. Quote:
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And another video:
Galadriel's Lament: Remastered Edition Complete to the present, and I've extended a couple of the opening slides to reserve the spaces for the other backdrops (I anticipate at least two: the outside of Tol Sirion, and a Valinorean interior). I also have Sauron drawn, and I think I did most of the animations for the Duel, so might be able to finalise that one tonight as well. Then I'll need to draw... either Beren and the Faithful, or Amarie, depending. Quote:
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That's the plan. It may also appear in the Ballad to Amarie, since I designed it as a set of arches similar to the Nargothrond ones.
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It is time for you all to decide who you serve Will you stay in this cage, or will you summon the nerve To come follow your king to the lands oversea? Hunt the Enemy down, reclaim my jewels three? The colours of my shield Are yours now - follow me! [MAEDHROS:] Red! The blood the Morgoth spilled! [CARANTHIR:] Black! A heart consumed with hate! [AMROD:] Red! The cup of strength we've filled! [CURUFIN:] Black! The shadow of our fate! [FINARFIN:] If we stay here toNight, then the Valar will come Clear the skies, clear the air, restore light to the boughs of the Trees! If we follow the Foe, then the Foe will have won Will have dragged us to doom, will have broken our peace Aman is still our home So listen to my pleas! [FINROD:] Red! The vicious fire of rage! [AREDHEL:] Black! The thought of staying chained! [TURGON:] Red! This cursed and bloodstained age! [GALADRIEL:] Black! The ancient night reclaimed! [FINGOLFIN:] Finarfin, you're no longer a child You're grown too old for make-believe The Valar can't avert this fate. I promised once, and this I vow I stand beside my brother now Let Eldar march to iron gate! [AMRAS:] Red! The blood the Morgoth spilled! [CELEGORM:] Black! A heart consumed with hate! [MAGLOR:] Red! The cup of strength we've filled! [THE SEVEN:] Black! The shadow of our fate! ... was that about what you were thinking? ![]() Coming back onto topic... yes, I've got another video completed! The Duel of Song (I'm tweaking the titles a little as I go; I think 'The Duel of Song' is better than the bland 'of Finrod and Sauron', dunno 'bout you.) I also have Amarie drawn, but haven't started sorting Wind in the new video style. We'll see how long that takes. hS |
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Did you change the background picture for Valinor? It looks different somehow. Or is it just that there is more of it visible now? I've updated both video links now, and changed the title to Duel of Song. I agree that it is more poetic. My nicknames for titles tend to be in the Not Poetic direction - like Bloodzoning or Tonguelashing. I don't think we'll use those. ![]() In somewhat related news, I was thinking about what to tackle next, and decided that certain songs have prerequisites.
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The Meeting: it's missing chords? I know nothing, so I just glanced at it and went 'yep, chords on every line' and stopped there. There's also that comment at the end (Проигрыш - мелодия Лютиен из ее «Поединка»), which I'm not even sure which track it goes to!
Sauron: do you think the raised arm/wing works? I did a lot of tweaking to that, and I'm still not positive I shouldn't just remove it. Valinor: No changes to the picture, but yeah, you can see a lot more, and the transition is different now. Next song: totally up to you! I'm jumping around in who I'm drawing, and need to have most of them done to fix up the songs we've done already. The only video I expect to be complicated is Truth, though now doubt I'll come up with some brilliant stroke of stupid for one of the others. hS |
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Okay... just sent you several options for Swear to this Oath. Not sure which ones are actually necessary though. Do whatever you want with them.
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And another One makes Two! And another One makes Three (that's me!) Five-four-three-two-one Numberjacks! Er, anyway... The very first chord of the Meeting is given as Am(V-555775) . Searching around produces this page, which provides the same description (Am (V) - 555775), and also includes a picture of what "Am (V)" looks like: ![]() Now, I didn't even know fifth chords existed until now (only sevenths), but luckily they also give some saner chords. Like D! D is cool. They give D as 232000. Wikipedia has an article on this, which also provides D... as 000232. ... Do they make more sense if you read them backwards? ![]() Yep! Here's Am as 577555 from an English-language source. Apparently Russians just write their chords backwards from the English-speaking world. Poking around the internet a bit, this means Beren's lines: I had to flee the shadow that fell The last out Would be chorded Gdim - Gdim7 -//- Dsus - Dm. I don't know what suspended or diminished chords are either, but G,G / D,D looks pretty sensible to me. ^_^ For further corroboration: that odd '7 10 9977' (or 7799 10 7 in English) is apparently Gsus, of which a random website says: There's a bunch o' ways [you can play it]. you could do 320013 or 355533, just to name a few... I guess you could also do 7799107, but that's kinda stretchin' it... So there it is. A real chord, but played weirdly. Quote:
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Forest is worn line: Am5 is fine 558775 = A-E-Eb/D#-A-E-A (which is much better than previous gibberish but E and Eb are still a weird combo) I had to flee line: 323200 = G-Db-Bb-E-A-E (which actually makes Gdim7 with an A added on top) 656500 = Bb-E-Db-G-A-E (same thing: these are all notes of Gdim7 except for the A) But this is a lot better than what I had previously, e.g. for the first "flee" chord: G-B-F-A-B-E - or, in other words, EFGAB, 5 notes in succession, which is a chord you might hear when someone headdesks the keyboard in frustration. I think you fixed it. <3 (I will have to look up suspended chords, but diminisheds are beautiful things for resolutions into a minor key. I stuck them in several places previously because they made sense and sounded nice. That stuff is good stuff. I trust that stuff.) ETA: what I now actually find amusing is that occasionally - very rarely, but just often enough to give me hope that I might be on the right track after all - there would be a chord that might have actually made sense as not quite harmonious but plausible thing, something akin to a X5 or X4 or something. Monkeys with typewriters do spell out "oksfordte dictoinnearie" without having to sit there an infinite amount of time, I suppose. ![]() ETA #2: these flipped chords are a lot better to work with. So far I made it as far as "forthcoming death", with dissonance - but a more controlled sort of dissonance. I might not have to escape to Nargothrond after all, unless I jinx it. ETA#3: Lol. Searched some of these chord-codes on google.ru to see if I can find confirmation of which notes are meant to be dissonant. First thing that comes up is a site with the chords for "Meeting". :/
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And here is the sketch all the way to the end, though with several places I know are not right, but I'll fix them when I get to them. Or cheat my way out of actually figuring them out. But I am now officially ready to begin the real thing. One of the iffy places is Beren's opening lines though. We'll see.
Your backwards chords idea was a lifesaver. I think I tried that a couple times before, back in Duel or something, but I wasn't impressed and gave up on the idea. I didn't think to try it again. This would have been infinitely longer and more difficult without the coded chords. I also found this thing, which allows me to see the notes indicated by the numbers without me having to count manually for each string. That sped things up a bit too.
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But - I am hoping that with this weekend (or maybe early the following week) we'll get the Captivity recordings... That's the trouble with having multiple people involved, I suppose - it's difficult to coordinate.
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Oooh, pretty! I like how Luthien's hair swoops around.
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I was also thinking - you know, like a year from now, when we get through the actual musical - I might do a bit of a medley of each character's melodies as a sort of "bow" at the end. So the portraits might each also get a couple seconds center stage at the end without competition. ![]()
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... I'm now heading down a possible mental side-alley and wondering whether I should use Galadriel's songs to tell the before and after. The intro to the Lament, where I've currently got previews of the Zong backgrounds, could instead be a series of pictures telling the backstory: -Awakening of the Elves -Making of the Silmarils -Death of the Trees -Oath of Feanor -Building of Nargothrond -Finrod meeting the Edain -The Bragollach -The death of Barahir / Beren in Dorthonion Then the Epilogue/Ballad... well, if I'm reusing the Lament Overview for Truth, I don't have any plans for the Epilogue, so I could do a Where Are They Now. -Finrod's grave (In the hour when slumber calls) -Thingol facing down the dwarves (Tell the truth, O Heart, tell me why) -Melian's farewell (Why did my fair brother go) -Beren and Luthien in Ossiriand (Did he reach a final accord) -Cel'n'Cur in the Second Kinslaying (An ancient Oath that brings ruin to those it holds fast.) -Sauron with a Ring (But stronger is time.) -Finrod with Amarie and Finarfin (Ours - the havens grey with sky-ship sails!) And then finish the song from 'sea-spray' onward as a rendition of the quote from the end of RotK: Quote:
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That sounds very impressive. I would not know how to even approach half of these pictures. So I think I will limit myself to general comments about themes and stuff, and let you work out how/if to turn that into art.
![]() For G's Ballad - the quick history of the world would be cool, but sounds like a lot of complicated pictures, so I will leave that in your judgement. Thematically, the one thing I might suggest is ending on a "future note". Galadriel begins by saying that Finrod is dead. Would that merit a "now we are in the future" transition? Or do you think Ballad could be in the near enough future that it's still the same chunk of time as the Zong (perhaps taking place right afterwards)? For the Epilogue, the sailing ship would be so wonderful! And it is good to have ll the characters say their "goodbye". The one image I might argue about is Sauron woth the Ring. I feel like it takes away from time as the unbeatable enemy - I think the Zong's point is that the Elves were doomed to fade in Middle-earth regardless of what they did. I would suggest the 3 Elven rings instead, referencing Galadriel herself and Celebrimbor, the ones carrying the ancient Noldor pride and seeing not trials vast, believing they can raise a power or a kingdom in spite of all, exist despite the fading... and then Galadriel accepting her fate, and humbling her pride, and ceasing trying to recreate what once was again in new kingdoms and new lands. On the flip side though, Sauron needs a goodbye too. Maybe the One vs the Three, to represent both the Elven ambitions, and Sauron's ambition of mastery that lead to his ultimate downfall? Just thoughts - I will leave that up to you.
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So remember that thing I said I would never do?
Wind: Remastered I tried four or five different ways of handling the leaves, but eventually had to admit defeat and restrict each to a single shape. They still get to tumble though, and they move so fast it's not really noticable. I've also added slight stellation effects to the two constellations which show up, so at least Orion's Belt stands out now. That makes four fully remastered songs, with Captivity waiting in the wings to be fifth. I still need to redraw Thingol and Melian, and will have to sort out the backdrops for the Meeting at some point, but once those are done we'll have seven songs finished - out of 22. That's very nearly a third! hS |
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Yay! Menelmacar and Wilwarin!
![]() I cannot see any fault with the leaves. So whatever you're talking about - they turned out perfect. It is a super cool effect. I like Amarie 2.0, she fits very well with Celebestel's beautiful voice. ![]() 7 songs! ![]() Edit - wait, no, Oath is one of the four you counted, right? I am losing track. Speaking of Oath, what is the final say on Swear?
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01 - Galadriel's Lament 02 - Oath of Feanor (missing the chorus) 03 - First Dance (in the works) 04 - Menegroth Duet (not yet remastered) 14 - The Duel of Song 17 - Captivity (not remastered; awaiting final voices) 19 - Wind Speaking of Oath, what is the final say on Swear?[/QUOTE] Uh... that I forgot you sent the files to me. ![]() hS |
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Making it a round 7 will be motivation to get going on Meeting. I have been very distracted lately, and basically only have 4 bars of intro. I made one brief foray into Beren's lines, but it sounded like church organ musoc, so I scrapped it.
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I've also conceded defeat on another point: the recordings do incline more towards putting Melian's quartet as the beginning of the Aria rather than the end of the Quarrel, so I've moved them. ![]() hS |
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What? Not "The Title That Describes In Miniscule Detail Exactly What Happens In The Song And Names All The Characters Involved"?
![]() I think for Aria that I will just do it in sequence right after Quarrel. They could be separated any way we choose - for administrative purposes, and ease of writing, etc - but I'll also write them so that they can blend in seamlessly as a single piece. And all the problems with the quartet will be solved. ![]()
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![]() ... I've found some more Zong videos. Some from a 2012 performance: Oath Showdown, played over clips from the entire performance And some with audio from ca. 2011: Oath Hatred Truth ?Medley? And this, from 2014, by... good grief, V1 Finrod changed a bit: Truth, by Роман Сусалев Aaaand a 2008 rehearsal clip: Renunciation And a whole new 2019 show-- look, I'm going to have to put them on the doc, this is getting silly. Essentially this search is just a list of Zonging. I think 2017's Santa Concert may be the winner. And I still haven't seen hide nor hair of the purported Daeron songs. hS |
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Took a brief look at the search - I see quite a few repeats from stuff you've found previously, but also a few new ones. There's a Prison Duet, and I think the only version I've seen of that was the V2 one. That would be nice to compare! Quote:
Also, pretty sure that some photos I saw on the Temple's VK gallery were tagged as Daeron and Edrahil. But yeah, no songs to accompany these folks, though they should each have lines in the musical at this point.
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