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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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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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