Trying to develop an analogy between music and narrative building blocks
If you had to identify 7 “notes” that The Lord of the Rings is composed out of, what would they be? As concrete as possible please. For example the ring might be a note.
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Friendship
Ring
Demon (Nazgûl, Shelob, Balrog)
Angel (Gandalf, Senior Elves, Bombadil, Eagles, Ent)
Gollum
Battle
Feast
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Did not know this, cool!
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howard shore basically did this explicitly to score the movie, no?
like there's the fellowship motif, shire motif, ring motif, …
each story-thematic element gets a corresponding musical-thematic element
woodzie.org/lotr/
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Wonder if you could generate a new fantasy story by first just making up a pleasing alt sequence of these notes from the one in LOTR
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Hmm “historic place” is probably also a note. People saying place names in awed tones drives the story along. Each place has a different mood but invoking a place to shift mood is the note.
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1- Result (starting point)
2-Goal Statement
3-complication/Conflict
4-Outcome
5- Reaction
6-Reflection
7-Decision
Minimum scene unit. This scales up to form chords, sequences, acts and stories.
Ring = motif = unit that contains 1+ and is recognizable through repetition
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This doesn’t feel like notes. It feels like scaffolding rather than alphabet
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Familiar with Save The Cat beat sheets?
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I would not expect _The Lord Of The Rings_ to be made of concrete parts.
I would expect either thematic or emotional parts.
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totally; naming things lets you talk about them with other people, but u gotta be careful not to think the name of the thing is all there is to it
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