A couple of days ago in the DA:I Twitter Thread this was posted:
"matthewaccohen I got to orchestrate all this music for Dragon Age Inquisition. The music for the Orlais people has quickly become my favorite." (Original post) My inner musician danced when I saw the picture because I love sheet music; I collect sheet music; I make my own sheet music; I can never have enough sheet music.
It's time for CSI:BSN Music Division to deliver an initial analysis or you can skip to the steamy bits at the end. Don't worry I've been pretending to play the piano for years.
"matthewaccohen I got to orchestrate all this music for Dragon Age Inquisition. The music for the Orlais people has quickly become my favorite." (Original post) My inner musician danced when I saw the picture because I love sheet music; I collect sheet music; I make my own sheet music; I can never have enough sheet music.
It's time for CSI:BSN Music Division to deliver an initial analysis or you can skip to the steamy bits at the end. Don't worry I've been pretending to play the piano for years.
Made some scribbles so that perhaps you can follow where my mind is going, which I am told is hard to do as it's like following a train that jumps tracks and skips stations. Please note these are my own observations and they may be way off base.
First off we have at least two sets of sheets. One at the top of the pic I underlined the title in black. Not much of anything is decipherable but it looks to be three instruments in 4/4 time. Under that title page looks to be another piece of music with a title and two instruments (I actually just noticed that now). The pattern of the notes on both these sheets looks very similar so possibly related pieces.
Next piece of music I circled the title which fellow poster Hrungr pointed out reads "DA III Orlais v1.9" so we know we are looking at music made for Orlais. We have just two instruments (or one with two hands) on the three visible pages (yellowish marking on picture) with 15 lines of music blurred but visible. If each staff was a different instrument then they would all be connected by a line like we see with my blue markings. Music is often divided into sections and assigned a letter or a number so I marked the sections I noted with red. There's four sections labeled: A (above the green circle), B, C, and D. It looks like our instruments rest for all of section A and come in softly at section B. The first green circle is the time signature (6/8) that changes on the second page (other green circle) to 3/4 for one measure before going right back to 6/8 (green arrow). That one measure gets loud though. Following my blue wavy line we see a bunch of sixteenth notes tied together in groups of six which is how I came to 6/8 time signature. As far as the music on these pages goes I can't make out too much other than the general movement of the notes and a lot of accidentals (sharps/flats that aren't in the key signature). Accidentals everywhere could just mean that there is a key signature that just wasn't put in at the start of the piece.
Steamy bits! Lastly, the small part I circled in orange may be the most exciting bit. It was the most legible part so I took a stab at it and ended up with this: Just three measures. (Note: the vid is unlisted on my YT channel so the only way to access it is to have the link.) I could be completely wrong and to be honest I kinda guessed on that third measure. It sounds like the start of a good melody nonetheless (or the middle of one for all I know).
What kind of music do you want to hear in DAI when you visit Orlais?
I'm hoping for some pieces that I can make piano covers for.
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