best music to game by

Some Guy wrote:
> Werebat wrote:
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>> Some Guy wrote:
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>>> Werebat wrote:
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>>>> Shawn Roske wrote:
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>>>>> So, what is your favourite selection of music to game by? What do
>>>>> you do for action, drama, suspense, or other?
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>>>> Lord. I have a 20 Gig iPod that is about 20% full, and 90% of that
>>>> is D&D music and little quips I've ripped from video games, movies,
>>>> etc. The files are organized into categories like "Background",
>>>> "Combat", "Alien/Creepy", and "Quips". I DM one game and play in
>>>> another, and when I play I have plenty of time to fiddle with the
>>>> iPod but not so much when I DM.
>>>>
>>>> Actually I wish I could share the stuff I've captured over the
>>>> years, as I have a bad feeling it will all disappear one day and
>>>> I'll have no way to recover it. Any ideas on how a person could do
>>>> that?
>>>>
>>>> - Ron ^*^
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>>> Transfer it to iTunes and burn it to CDs. That's the best, if not
>>> the cheapest way. Alternately, back it up to some external drive via
>>> whatever computer you're using, or to one of those net storage
>>> services (though they are in the same boat--they could just "go away"
>>> and leave you hanging).
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>> I've got an external drive, backing up my entire HD... So in reality
>> I've got 3 copies of the tunes (iPod itself, HD, and backup). I know
>> the iPod is a poor choice for backup but apparently it is possible to
>> retrieve tunes from it if you need to.
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> I've had my iPod over a year now, and although I've had to reboot it a
> few times I've never lost anything from it, either music or data (I keep
> my address book in there, for example, instead of carrying a PDA).
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>> Also, it's not so much the tunes themselves but their ORGANIZATION
>> that I need to keep a copy of. All those hours of coding in the quips
>> and songs... If I had to redo all of it -- ugh.
>>
>> - Ron ^*^
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> When you say "organization," do you mean the information in the
> playlist, e.g. what goes next to what, or do you mean the files?

The playlist. I have hundreds of tiny sound files, all organized in
trees like "Genres" --> "Background" --> "Spooky/Undead" --> "Arcanum"
--> "Graveyard"

- Ron ^*^

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 19:47:27 -0800, Lambien hath written thusly
(in article <62adb$45ece46f$943fc981$12461@STARBAND.NET>):

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> "Eric P." <ericpNOSPAM06 DeleteThis @sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:0001HW.C20E434400035B40407A0200@news.sf.sbcglobal.net...
>> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 10:31:35 -0800, The Mad Afro hath written thusly
>> (in article <1172860295.780580.195240 DeleteThis @n33g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>):
>>
>>> On Mar 2, 12:07 pm, "Justin Alexander" <jus... DeleteThis @thealexandrian.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> The Mad Afro wrote:
>>>>> On Mar 1, 9:40 pm, Shawn Roske <f... DeleteThis @NOSPAM.ncf.ca> wrote:
>>>>>> So, what is your favourite selection of music to game by? What do you
> do
>>>>>> for action, drama, suspense, or other?
>>>>
>>>>> The Lord of the Rings soundtracks are excellent for all-purpose
>>>>> fantasy gaming music. Ditto for Willow, Braveheart, Legends of the
>>>>> Fall, etc. Unlikely soundtracks that serve the same purpose are
>>>>> Gettysburg and Crimson Tide. David Arkenstone's "Quest of the Dream
>>>>> Warrior" is another excellent fantasy choice.
>>>>
>>>> I tend to avoid fantasy soundtracks and other well-known soundtracks.
>>>> The problem is false association: People hear the familiar chords of
>>>> the LOTR soundtrack come on and they're thinking of Middle Earth and
>>>> Arwyn and Mordor, instead of the Western Lands and Emperor Atal and
>>>> the Kingdoms of the East.
>>>
>>> I haven't noticed that particular problem with movie soundtracks, but
>>> mileage varies. Even so, during the current campaign I've been trying
>>> for an Eastern European flavor, so I've toned down the John Williams
>>> and Frank Horner in favor of things like Hungarian folk music. And
>>> violins, lots of violins, mostly because the instrument is a Really
>>> Big Deal in the area that the PCs are currently in.
>>
>> Good call! Eastern European folk music is fascinating, and respectable
>> from a music theory point of view. There's a good range of feeling
>> within the subgenre
>>
>> - E
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>> So, what particular Hungarian/European artists do you suggest??
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Without looking in my world music book, what comes to mind is that
Franz Liszt collected an impressive collection of folk music, in order
to preserve it. He probably scored/adapted some of the material. If so,
there are bound to be recordings available.

Move a little north/northwest of that region, and you find Bederik
Smetana (can't place the accent marks correctly, sorry), the father of
Czech nationalist music. He wrote my all-time favorite piece of music
of any genre, called The Moldau. I'll bet someone out there is familiar
with it. It's a musical representation of a journey from the source to
the mouth of a river in his homeland. There are several different
performances recorded of this work. It's part of a collection called Ma
Vlast ("My Fatherland"), which includes another number called The High
Castle. The Moldau might serve well as traveling music, especially if
along a river, where here and there are various activities and sights.

Enjoy,
Eric


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