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Bath, BA2 6UD. +44 (0)1225 313082
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1:58; slow-medium 4/4; dramatic, grand, combative; brass, percussion
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This is another genre-based piece, originally created for a film project. I've kept to brass and percussion for a degree of historical accuracy, though there is little clear information on how the music of the Roman Empire might have sounded. Certainly the use of timpani is anachronistic but it does land a certain grandeur that i think is excusable.
The film maker in question actually had the rhythmic phrase in his head, so I was bound by that (the da daa da, da-di-da daa daaaa) and it quickly suggested a melodic line. The rising arpeggio counterpoint that comes in on the repeat adds a little pomp and nobility and one can hopefully readily imagine hordes of heavily armed Romans appearing on the horizon. My research, such as it was, suggested that tambourines and cymbals may well have featured in the music of that era, so in they went to provide some detail and punctuation.
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Composer's Blog
This is another genre-based piece, originally created for a film project. I've kept to brass and percussion for a degree of historical accuracy, though there is little clear information on how the music of the Roman Empire might have sounded. Certainly the use of timpani is anachronistic but it does land a certain grandeur that i think is excusable.
The film maker in question actually had the rhythmic phrase in his head, so I was bound by that (the da daa da, da-di-da daa daaaa) and it quickly suggested a melodic line. The rising arpeggio counterpoint that comes in on the repeat adds a little pomp and nobility and one can hopefully readily imagine hordes of heavily armed Romans appearing on the horizon. My research, such as it was, suggested that tambourines and cymbals may well have featured in the music of that era, so in they went to provide some detail and punctuation.