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Chained in Silver

-a medieval fantasy to modern orchestral piece

read to the melody of Chained 'n Silver by Random Goldfish (mod 26 by me)
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0:00 (chiming of the silver chains...)



0:08 (strings)
(incantation)
Hear me,
        God of Fire…






0:17 (strings)
  bring me…
        the silver chains.





0:26 (strings, flute)
  bind me this princess, free…





0:33 (harp)
Pretty please…?




0:37 (quick strings)
In a land of magic
            there exist immortal blacksmiths
                                        forging silver chains;
there forever ever
            are they smithing the enchanted,
                                      beautiful unbroken chains…





0:46 (to flute)
Chains,
      oh, unbroken silver-fashioned chains…
                                      ever, ever will you bind your prey…



0:55 (quick strings and harp)
Stone-red burning fires
            of immortal blacksmiths
                                where they forge their silver chains;
wield the diamond hammers that resist the fires
                    where the blacksmiths pound their silver chains…





1:04 (to flute, harp)
Chains,
      oh, unbroken silver-clad chains…
                                      ever, ever will you hold your prey…

come, unbroken chains…




1:15 (to flute, harp)
Silver chains,
      these unbroken silver-made chains…
                                      ever, ever will they hold and bind their mortal prey…


Her!






1:26 (harp)
Captured, bound unto the silver chains…




1:32(strings)
so bound, two kingdoms become engaged in total war…


1:38 (harp)
total war…

(harp run)

(harp)
fell spells have been cast,
                    total war;

deadly embrace,
          vast hordes and armies… 





1:50 (harp, flute, and orchestra)
…Clash, in fray,
            blood, souls spilling;

  fear, regret have seized her-
          pain, doubt,
    death…
       
          she's set free
from the chains…








2:09 (flutes)
Kingdoms ever change their rule
      kings and princes fight for truth,
silver chains tainting their world, once pure;
    sorrow, loneliness they endure…







_____________________________________________________
(after some generations,
  a child plays amid the ruins and discovers a shiny gleam
      amid the dew-laden leaves...)




2:32 (harp, harp/flute)
summer day, flowered field
  leave-shrouded secrets;

              innocence breaks a curse-
    lifts an ancient silver chain.
















Author notes

pics modified my me, artists in file names unless they were scenes from video games. Most scenes from "Medieval, Total War"

 



 

Poems/Scores to the Music of Random Goldfish:
(in reverse chronological order)

Thinking of August- Now or Never http://allpoetry.com/poem/5893739

Thinking of August- Duo (piano and cello) http://allpoetry.com/poem/5660705

Thinking of August- Acoustic Grand Piano http://allpoetry.com/poem/5892115

Thinking of August- Electric http://allpoetry.com/poem/5435359

Sweet August Days to Come http://allpoetry.com/poem/5423787

Sometimes... Faces http://allpoetry.com/poem/4940637

The Moon Tonight- Christmas from Ireland http://allpoetry.com/poem/4895079

Then the Merry Fiddlers Came http://allpoetry.com/poem/4885481

'Round a Grand Carousel http://allpoetry.com/poem/4778751

Two Souls Rooted Deep Within http://allpoetry.com/poem/4776245

A Dream- Where the Water Sleeps http://allpoetry.com/poem/4756347

Lune Sings http://allpoetry.com/poem/4397931

Gas Pump Music Duel http://allpoetry.com/poem/3449548

Chained in Silver http://allpoetry.com/poem/3385242

A New Autumn Day http://allpoetry.com/poem/3308104

Merry Merry Wiccan Wiccan Friends http://allpoetry.com/poem/show/3293000

In this Wilderness a Love of Old http://allpoetry.com/poem/3244044

The Sable http://allpoetry.com/poem/3239364

Donkey Feathers http://allpoetry.com/poem/3238828

The Obsidian Tree http://allpoetry.com/poem/3059430

The Forest Altar http://allpoetry.com/poem/2648314

The Snowy Banks http://allpoetry.com/poem/2646132

 

(some scores modified by me)

 

 

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  • Random Goldfish gold member
    September 9, 2007

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    Well, I came by again to see how this was doing...everything is great...do you have bowings in the strings or no? I love all the pictures...

    "kingdoms ever change their rule
    princes ever fight for truth,
    silver chains tainting the wells, so pure
    sorrow, loneliness to endure…"

    That was my favourite part...back on the ol' Sable tune I stuck in there...


    • wbiro gold member
      September 11, 2007
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      I see my responses are out of order here (due to editing), no wonder you were confused... my Notepad has a slur line that I tried in ver. 13 on some of the string passages- I can't tell if it makes a difference, I'd say it's barely perceptible, but that might just be my imagination...


    • wbiro gold member
      September 9, 2007
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      now I'm thinking 'bowing' is a legato thing...


    • wbiro gold member
      September 9, 2007
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      oh damdiddlydoodle- it's a demisemiquaver...

    • wbiro gold member
      September 9, 2007
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      hey, now that I'm googling 'bowing' I'm running across all kinds of music symbology that (strange as it sounds) I'm having hitherto unfelt feelings toward... and look what I can say: "semidemiquaver"!

    • wbiro gold member
      September 9, 2007
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      and 'bowings in the strings'? Seems to me if the string isn't plucked, it's bowed! So they're all bowed, I guess, since I have no pizzicato anywhere... unless there's a more esoteric meaning... let me google it... lol

    • wbiro gold member
      September 9, 2007
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      ah- now I'm thinking of those curvey lines you use everywhere... what are those- a 'direction of the bow' instruction? They don't seem to make any difference auditorily...

    • wbiro gold member
      September 9, 2007
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      OK, I understand your 'bowing' now, I think- I looked it up on a physics site- so yes, my strings do exhibit the Helmholtz motion of stick-slip-stick-slip causing a uniform parabolic motion of harmonics where the velocities are in proportion to the transient forces on the string as in A =v(n-1)/nf… (lol)

    • wbiro gold member
      September 9, 2007
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      glad you like ver. 07-
      This may be interesting to you as a composer- I listened to ver. 02 after giving it a break for a while, and I couldn't figure out the melody or what the heck I was doing during my first re-hearing (which accounts for your delayed reaction, I think!) and, since I didn't want the piece to have to 'grow' on the listener (where the listener 'gets' it only after three or four listens, while during the first listen or two it's completely strange and incomprehensible noise) I gave it a little more conventional structure for the listener to latch on to, which was also good for the reading aspect too, I think...


  • quantumsurveyor
    September 9, 2007
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    A yes-yes is the opposite of a no-no or vice-versa!lol On this side , so far as I know, there isn't a yes-yes, only a no-no which means "double "no"" I guess.

  • quantumsurveyor
    September 9, 2007
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    Sorry but I just can't get to like this - I guess if you know where the piece has come from it is different but, for me, this is a no-no.


    • wbiro gold member
      September 9, 2007
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      thanks, but mystifying- you'll have to show me what a yes-yes is...!


  • bittersweet-symphony
    September 9, 2007
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    it captures...its simply amazing...for a first impressio


    • wbiro gold member
      September 9, 2007
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      thanks, glad to be your first comment, welcome to AP...!


  • grannyeri gold member
    September 9, 2007

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    What amazing pictures, and what a great way to write poetry to music. Very talented you are to be doing this. I am sure the finished product will be mind boggling.


    • wbiro gold member
      September 9, 2007
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      thanks, and I give due credit to my young accomplice...


  • Asdzaa Nadleehe
    September 9, 2007

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    omg..this is simply incredible..I absolutely love this..
    This holds so much power ...I love it!!!
    Encore...
    Peace
    ~A~

    • wbiro gold member
      September 9, 2007
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      awe, thanks- but let me credit good 'ol Ms. Random's musical compositional skill as the inspirational source...


  • Random Goldfish gold member
    September 8, 2007
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    OMG...I was too SHOCKED by the changes to my music that I couldn't read the poem...I love this.

    • wbiro gold member
      September 8, 2007
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      lol I didn't see the 'I love this' thirty minutes ago! So I was in trepidation... Now know- this is my absolutely VERY FIRST one-nighter for a 'written score' (as opposed to improvisations, which are done as soon as I stop playing the electronic keyboard)(and as opposed to my other two-minute written compositions which took me at least 40 hours each)... and I'll admit, you are influencing my writing in a direction I've always stove for but missed- conventional and traditional (not to mention formally trained!)... (for perspective go see my 'I Can't Stand Real Words' piece... heck, even my last waltz piece will give it to you!) So my secret is out- you've been my music instructor...


  • misticmoonlite gold member
    September 8, 2007
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    well this is different and I can't wait to see the complete musical..lol
    hurry up! lol


    • wbiro gold member
      September 8, 2007
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      well, if you've an urge for a fantasy piece to classical music, then this will be the place to be...

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