SPOILER ALERT!!! Okay so last night I was listening to my sleep playlist which is just Thedas Love Theme and Lost Elf Theme on repeat until I drift off to the Fade....
As I was listening to this I noticed that the Thedas Love Them is actually IN the Lost Elf Theme.
The Thedas Love them sounds dream-like, like the opening piano keys at the start, in the opening of it, like some of the notes are missing and we are only hearing fragments (as if we are in The Fade listening to this). Then we get the strings with (what I'm calling the Love Theme, those sombre swelling strings ). Again, it is soft, dreamlike, but infinitely sad and I want to say... longing? Like longing for a dream that can never be, longing for a reality that can never be. A distorted song to represent a disillusioned view... or to only take the good fragments from the picture and leave out the bad...
Now.... let's look at The Lost Elf Theme. This also begins with piano. But the it's as if we can hear all the notes we couldn't in the opening of the Love Theme. Like "our eyes are open". Then the strings come in with none other than THE LOVE THEME! And this time it's fully, richer - there is clarity and it sounds final. This is developed and there is a response, developed and The Love Theme is repeated again, sadder, almost nostalgically. As if "it was good while it lasted".. But now the veil has been lifted, there is clarity and the situation is seen for what it is/was. A sobering moment. The reality as it is.... No escape. No dreams. (NO VEIL/FADE!?)
I've seen many theories about and I like a lot of what I've seen. I just had to share this midnight discovery - what do you guys think?! What do you think it implies?!
Theory Time! Music Edition (ALERT! Spoilers likely, Spoilers very, very likely)
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Posté 30 mai 2016 - 06:27
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Posté 31 mai 2016 - 02:30
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It is a common thing for composers to take a melody they've written and work it into other pieces of music. Music tells a story and it can change. It's called Music Theory. However as far as these two pieces go...I don't hear it. Other than similar instrumentation, both pieces have different melodies. The pianos in both are playing different harmonies; Thedas Love Theme piano is playing broken chords (I can hear all the notes being played), Lost Elf Theme is playing chords that fall down the scale. The strings in both are also playing their own melodies. So, two songs, similar instruments used, two melodies. I'm trying not to go full music theory nerd all over this and keep it basic.
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Posté 01 juin 2016 - 01:03
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It is a common thing for composers to take a melody they've written and work it into other pieces of music. Music tells a story and it can change. It's called Music Theory. However as far as these two pieces go...I don't hear it. Other than similar instrumentation, both pieces have different melodies. The pianos in both are playing different harmonies; Thedas Love Theme piano is playing broken chords (I can hear all the notes being played), Lost Elf Theme is playing chords that fall down the scale. The strings in both are also playing their own melodies. So, two songs, similar instruments used, two melodies. I'm trying not to go full music theory nerd all over this and keep it basic.
I'm really bad at distinguishing notes/keys in music. Hum a tune and I can sing it perfectly back to you. Ask me to name the key or the notes of that tune and I'm out. But the songs do sound so similar to me! I felt the broken chords of the piano were in the thedas love theme were some of the notes from the other theme. I'd love to actually see the music sheets myself ! Go full music theory nerd if you want! 
I love the idea of Music Theory and as an artist myself I don't ever do things unintentionally... Everything I do when I'm working is symbolic ( tries to be ) or tells another part of the story you don't get from first glance. I don't believe that things are ever done coincidently when it comes to stuff like this.... I don't believe that it's because of laziness on the composer's side. But alas, I also have been listening to these songs on repeat, and they do sound like cal and response to me (at least ) !
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Posté 01 juin 2016 - 01:53
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If I had the time I could transcribe the sheets for both pieces, but that would just be a visual representation of what I already know about the music. They would share a lot of the same notes because all western music is based on the same twelve semitones. If they sound like a call and response to you, that's great, good music evokes emotions.
