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Korinna Nightshade wrote: 10 Jun 2025, 05:10 SOBBING THAT'S SO FUNNY and speaking of athena...
mggjkquwrquwr okay here you go
A yap about musical motifs that you never thought you needed?

Reducio

EPIC The Musical utilizes something in its songs known as motifs - essentially musical ideas that show up multiple times in a piece (or in this case, the whole musical!). The creator, Jorge Rivera-Herrans, actually used musical motifs to represent the characters and events throughout the musical, which I thought was really cool! He actually mentioned that he was inspired by Peter and The Wolf, which also utilizes these motifs. For those of you who aren't familiar with Peter and The Wolf, it's a famous classical composition by composer Sergei Prokofiev from 1936 but I digress. Just uh.. you know that strings ringtone that you've probably heard before but you never knew what it was.... yeah that one!! mhm. (to people and fellow musicians out there who know what i'm talking about i'm so sorry.. )

Now Jorge, inspired by Peter and The Wolf, has intricate motifs for all the characters in EPIC the Musical as well as some of the events, which i'll explain in detail later. Each character is represented by a set of instruments playing a specific melody/rhythm that also shows up very very specifically in other songs or later in that particular song.

Let's take a look at Athena, who easily has one of the most recognizable motifs in the song 'Warrior of The Mind' and later on in the musical - what is known to the fandom as 'Quick Thought'! Whenever she shows up in any of the songs, there's always an acceleration in the music, the same melody - which represents her power (because jorge was also inspired by video game boss battles)
If you listen carefully to the instrumentals, you'll notice this! ^

oh dear I should've started with the horse and the infant. even better.

Pamela Graham wrote: 10 Jun 2025, 05:46

Korinna Nightshade wrote: 10 Jun 2025, 05:10 SOBBING THAT'S SO FUNNY and speaking of athena...
mggjkquwrquwr okay here you go
A yap about musical motifs that you never thought you needed?

Reducio

EPIC The Musical utilizes something in its songs known as motifs - essentially musical ideas that show up multiple times in a piece (or in this case, the whole musical!). The creator, Jorge Rivera-Herrans, actually used musical motifs to represent the characters and events throughout the musical, which I thought was really cool! He actually mentioned that he was inspired by Peter and The Wolf, which also utilizes these motifs. For those of you who aren't familiar with Peter and The Wolf, it's a famous classical composition by composer Sergei Prokofiev from 1936 but I digress. Just uh.. you know that strings ringtone that you've probably heard before but you never knew what it was.... yeah that one!! mhm. (to people and fellow musicians out there who know what i'm talking about i'm so sorry.. )

Now Jorge, inspired by Peter and The Wolf, has intricate motifs for all the characters in EPIC the Musical as well as some of the events, which i'll explain in detail later. Each character is represented by a set of instruments playing a specific melody/rhythm that also shows up very very specifically in other songs or later in that particular song.

Let's take a look at Athena, who easily has one of the most recognizable motifs in the song 'Warrior of The Mind' and later on in the musical - what is known to the fandom as 'Quick Thought'! Whenever she shows up in any of the songs, there's always an acceleration in the music, the same melody - which represents her power (because jorge was also inspired by video game boss battles)
If you listen carefully to the instrumentals, you'll notice this! ^

oh dear I should've started with the horse and the infant. even better.

Lmoa this is really nice-- where do u plan to put it?? Sooo which song shud we do next?? Sorry am I moving too fast?

Korinna Nightshade wrote: 10 Jun 2025, 05:59

Pamela Graham wrote: 10 Jun 2025, 05:46

Korinna Nightshade wrote: 10 Jun 2025, 05:10 SOBBING THAT'S SO FUNNY and speaking of athena...
mggjkquwrquwr okay here you go
A yap about musical motifs that you never thought you needed?

Reducio

EPIC The Musical utilizes something in its songs known as motifs - essentially musical ideas that show up multiple times in a piece (or in this case, the whole musical!). The creator, Jorge Rivera-Herrans, actually used musical motifs to represent the characters and events throughout the musical, which I thought was really cool! He actually mentioned that he was inspired by Peter and The Wolf, which also utilizes these motifs. For those of you who aren't familiar with Peter and The Wolf, it's a famous classical composition by composer Sergei Prokofiev from 1936 but I digress. Just uh.. you know that strings ringtone that you've probably heard before but you never knew what it was.... yeah that one!! mhm. (to people and fellow musicians out there who know what i'm talking about i'm so sorry.. )

Now Jorge, inspired by Peter and The Wolf, has intricate motifs for all the characters in EPIC the Musical as well as some of the events, which i'll explain in detail later. Each character is represented by a set of instruments playing a specific melody/rhythm that also shows up very very specifically in other songs or later in that particular song.

Let's take a look at Athena, who easily has one of the most recognizable motifs in the song 'Warrior of The Mind' and later on in the musical - what is known to the fandom as 'Quick Thought'! Whenever she shows up in any of the songs, there's always an acceleration in the music, the same melody - which represents her power (because jorge was also inspired by video game boss battles)
If you listen carefully to the instrumentals, you'll notice this! ^

oh dear I should've started with the horse and the infant. even better.

Lmoa this is really nice-- where do u plan to put it?? Sooo which song shud we do next?? Sorry am I moving too fast?

Nono you'e good!! I love that we're moving fast!

I was going to put it in one of the reducios..

Well I'm going to sleep soon since it's getting late and i've got to get up early tomorrow, but if you want you can work on descriptions for the rest of the troy saga? just a man, full speed ahead, open arms .. since you've done the other two?d

Pamela Graham wrote: 10 Jun 2025, 08:07 Well I'm not sure what art needs to be done- but we still need to write for Just a man and full speed aheadd (I've just started Open arms) so if u want u can?

Amelia Garnett wrote: 10 Jun 2025, 12:09

Pamela Graham wrote: 10 Jun 2025, 08:07 Well I'm not sure what art needs to be done- but we still need to write for Just a man and full speed aheadd (I've just started Open arms) so if u want u can?

Not sure I can do as good as u tho u wrote so welll

Korinna Nightshade wrote: 10 Jun 2025, 03:38

Eonaria Kabukimono wrote: 10 Jun 2025, 03:37 Just gimme an assignment and I’ll do it I love procrastinating studying for finals

stopp go study for finals tsk tsk

totally understand the need to procrastinate though. How would you feel about listening to The Horse and The Infant /while/ studying for finals, then writing about your reaction o.O or doing some art?