Tag: music

the broadbeam cradle song made me too goddamn sad in a minor key, so i was thinking about transposing it to major. then i realized how much of an undertaking that would be, and i’m not really sure where to start. do you have any advice? (i know the dwarves probably sing in minor most of the time because they have sad songs, and for the heartbreaking moment it was for the cradlesong should be in minor, but i feel like lullabies can be in major? idk)

Hey Nonnie! Yes absolutely lullabies can be in a major key! Tons of the most famous ones are, after all! This tune came to me in a minor key, is all 🙂

Yeah, sure! Here we go, a long answer/ramble on turning the main tune of the Cradle-Song from D Minor to D major. Not sure how much notation you can read, so I’m gonna go with pictures, and solfa, and sorry in advance if I am wordy and a bit of a drag.

The original key was D minor. It has just the one flat, right there in the key signature. The scale goes like this.

D  E  F  G  A  Bflat  C  D

The flat means that the note has been lowered by a step (a semitone).

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D Major, however, has two sharps. F# and C#. 

D  E  F#  G  A  B  C#  D

A sharp means that the note is RAISED by one step (a semitone). 

IDK if Solfa helps you more, but here’s another way of looking at it for you. In Solfa, these two notes would be here, in D Major (the ones that are bolded):

Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do

(We’d also have to raise ‘La’ a step, jsyk – it was the previously-flattened b-flat in the Dmin scale, but that’s not applicable to this tune bc I don’t use it!!)

So, if you raise ALL the ‘Mi’s and ‘Ti’s in the song by one step, you end up with something that looks like this:

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(yes yes, musos, I know I could have put them in the key sig instead, but this is more visual I guess. I dunno. It’s easier to see the sharps!)

Now, lets throw the words back on top of that. 

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And that sounds like this:

Broadbeam Cradle-Song – D Major (mp3)

Ta-raaaaaah!

(your music is so lovely and wonderful and every time i am just destroyed by feelings. this has been/will be a doozy of a quarter for me, and sansûkh and your songs give me hope, and strength. thank you.)

*hugs you tight* So damned sorry to hear it’s a hard time for you at the moment, Nonnie. You’re pretty hecking amazing to be slogging through that rough stuff. You’re in my thoughts, okay? I hope you get the chance to do something kind and gentle for yourself every so often. 

Glad you like the music! And doubly glad that it helps. It’s my thing 😉


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In Western Lands (Sam’s Song). 

This is the final
song planned for Sansûkh, composed and performed by me for SSAA choir.

It will be linked
in the fic on AO3 RIGHT after I write the words, ‘The End’ in Chapter 50. 

The poem is from Return
of the King, and is sung by Sam Gamgee. It
has been suggested that it was originally penned by a certain Mr. Bilbo Baggins.

This composition is
lovingly dedicated to my dear friend, @poplitealqueen​. Love ya, mate.

Sheet music for download is here. Lyrics reproduced
under the cut.

In western lands
beneath the Sun
the flowers may rise in Spring,
the trees may bud, the waters run,
the merry finches sing.
Or there maybe ‘tis cloudless night
and swaying beeches bear
the Elven-stars as jewels white
amid their branching hair.

Though here at
journey’s end I lie
buried in darkness deep,
beyond all towers strong and high,
beyond all mountains steep,
above all shadows rides the Sun
and Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
nor bid the Stars farewell.

Or ‘waith bain nura Anor
A panlû elin cuinar
Ú-pedithon ‘i-aur gwann’
Egor nai îl ‘namarië’.

(the Elvish stanza is a translation of the last four lines of the poem).

ichijoukenichiro:

flutelorelai:

Oh my god. This project. It took a year to make. AND NOW IT’S LIVE!

A virtual, online orchestra playing famous soundtracks from movies, TV shows and video games, sounds like dream come true, right?

Music side of Tumblr, join the ranks of The Fandom Orchestra! 

You will need 1. and ability to sing or play an instrument and 2. access to a good quality microphone.

Sign up here: http://eepurl.com/cBC045

Our next piece is The Lord of the Rings medley, which will be significantly easier than this one, so hopefully we’ll get more people to join. PLEASE REBLOG!

@the-dragongirl, @determamfidd, @flukeoffate, @errandofmercy and all my fandom people who play an instrument and/or sing. There are so many of you I can’t tag you all, but the next project is LotR, so let’s fucking do this!

*STANDS, TREMBLING VIOLENTLY (AND ALSO VIOLINISHLY)* I WILL TAKE IT, I WILL TAKE THE RING TO MORDOR

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Your comment about composers who are hard to sing reminds me of my conductor (he composes/arranges most of our material). We’ll go over a particularly crunchy chord or strange passage and he’ll look down at the music and go “who even wrote that” before chuckling to himself because he’s a dork 💛

*lies facedown* yeah, I did quite a bit of that, recording this song. I am right there with him. WHO WROTE THIS MONSTROSITY, doesn’t she know we need to BREATHE? what the hell, why why why are there all these tone crunches everywhere, and ow this Sop I part never comes down out of the rafters OW

(I’ve finished recording it now, thankfully! I’ve just got some mastering to go. It is pretty tight harmony,so I want to get the balance right in places, plus there was some annoying popping on the recording of the Alto II part. All cleaned up and pretty now!)