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I like to listen to music as I write…sometimes to help me focus and sometimes to help me block out the noise of a number of playing siblings. 🙂 I listen to various pieces as the mood seizes me, but the two I’ve been switching between recently is the Chronicles album (from Audiomachine…it’s good ‘war’ music) and the classical piece Carnival of Animals along with the Nutcracker (for more peaceful scenes).
Do you listen to music as you write, and if so, what kinds?
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Yes I certainly do! I also have been a great listener to Audiomachine, and one of my favorite albums of theirs is ‘Tree of Life’. You’re right— good war music. I’ve been struggling to find more peaceful or dramatic music for the more peaceful or dramatic scenes, though. I listened to so much classical music a few years ago that now it has to be really unique for be to be able to stand it at all. Maybe I’ll grow out of that. One good classical piece I still really enjoy, though, is Vivaldi’s Winter. And though this is not ideal, if I’m desperate for a slow, sad piece, I’ll look up some of my favorite Celtic and Gaelic traditional songs. ‘The Boatman’ is a good one— more commonly known as Fhear a Bhata, which I suppose is it’s Gaelic name. 🙂 But it can be really difficult to find the sort of soft, emotional music I’m looking for on Youtube, so if any of you have any suggestions, I’m all ears.
I really like Tree of Life too. But soft emotional music…that is hard. There was an eight minute piece of Beethoven that was perfect for an emotional scene, but I’ve lost it. I might try to find it and the name again though, because I’ll need it for the book I’m writing. 😉
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Hey, Kingdom Pen is actually working on a list of the best 100 writing songs. We’ll try and get that finished up and make it available for you to download on the website. 🙂 Audiomachine is listed, along with some softer more emotional music! 😀
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100 best writing songs? Gotta be organized by genre. I mean there’s a lot of war music (read Immediate Music, Two Steps from Hell and audiomachine), but there needs to be like nice romance music. Or even tense kind of music. Basically, movie soundtracks. James Horner, Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard, John Powell. Awesome guys that can write emotion.
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Thing is, though, most of the composers you mentioned composed film music, and for me, it’s difficult to listen to music from a film I’ve watched while I’m trying to write, because the music has prior associations and therefore is difficult to match up to the scene I am writing. If that were not the case, I could live for the rest of my life using nothing but Howard Shore!
Jumping in here…might I suggest this wonderful work of awesomeness created by a writer acquaintance of mine? Since I apparently can’t post links, I’ll try this way. soundfuel(dot)blogspot(dot)com. 🙂
I personally like Celtic instrumental music and some of the more energetic classical music for most of my writing, but sometimes I do need a good emotional piece. Solo piano usually ends up being where I go for that (and that’s usually Pandora, although there’s a blog I read with good emotional background music that I’ll pull up sometimes for that as well).
Has anyone seen the movie Epic? It’s really cute, but anyway, I’ve been listening to that soundtrack some and it has a lot of happy, lighter type music that is still active. And it is very pretty. 🙂
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I watched Epic (and shamelessly enjoyed it!) and loved the sound track! I’ve found that it has been helpful for when I’m writing more from the good guy’s perspective while they’re building up to something or working together to solve a problem. 🙂
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Isn’t it great? It’s one of my favorite ‘kid’ movies and I’ve watched it a number of times. And the soundtrack is wonderful. 🙂
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I’m reviving this topic to throw in a good word for an album I found recently via Youtube. I think it’s a video game soundtrack… maybe… but it’s really great music.
It’s called ‘Dragon Age: Inquisition’, by Trevor Morris. I got it for twelve dollars on Amazon. Some of it is a lot like Audiomachine, but it had a LOT of really great creepy music that Audiomachine just doesn’t do. It’s a darker sort of music— less epic, more intense and complicated. And it has one of the most beautiful choral pieces I’ve ever heard. 😀While not music to listen while writing, does anyone like old ballads? Most of them have to do with romance and end with someone dying, but you can good ideas and lines from some of them. More particularity, has anyone heard The Highwayman? I was mesmerized the first time I heard it.
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I… don’t know that I’ve heard it in musical form, but if you’re talking about the poem that starts ‘The road was a gypsy ribbon, looping the purple moor…’ or something like that, yes, I’ve read it, and it is mesmerizing. The rhythm is so strong— like a horse galloping or something.
Here’s some music I’ve started listening to. There’s a whole list and I really like it. Well, I like most of what I’ve listened to so far; I can’t vouch for everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHP2GgxYddY&index=1&list=RDxHP2GgxYddY
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