OCR04764 - *YES* Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim "Dragonborn Symphony"

[Liontamer]

Artist Name: SupremoMusico400

I use the Harp to readapt the guitar for symphonic orchestra. This particular ensemble consists of Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, trumpet, Trombone, Timpani, Cymbals (or piatti in italian musical terms), Harp, Choir (S,A,T,B) and Strings (violins 1,2; Viola; Cello and Contrabasses).

I take inspiration from his own rending of the piece. I created this as if it were an orchestra summoned by his guitar, so his guitar part should not be considered the "solo" part, but more of a Source for the orchestration process.

You can hear pieces of the theme be used, for example, in the beginning (two notes ascending as if a piece of the original melody was extraced and used in imitation between the instruments) and also the introduction from the guitar be transposed as 3 simple chors with the choir, opening the piece following what i just explained about "extracted melody". 

For this submission, i think the rest explains itself. I composed and processed this using Musescore 4 and it's "Muse Sounds" audio packs.

Hope you enjoy!

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Games & Sources

These are mainly famous themes from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

The inspiration for this piece (first out of three parts that together make what I called the "Skyrim Symphony" on my Youtube channel) was actually from a guitarist named Harry Murrell, who made a guitar tab from the main Skyrim theme. The score imitates his own arrangement, so it can be considered an "arrangement of an arrangement". 

The link of the piece from which Murrell created his arrangement: 

The link from which I created my arrangement: 

The other parts available on my Youtube Channel, if this is liked by the commission I could post the other 2 parts.

As of the date of this submission, the third part is yet to be finalised, but the first part will do for now.

[prophetik music]

you may wish to avoid the term "official" in your song title. would you call this 'movement 1' based on your writeup? it's quite short to be a movement.

opens with sustained choir and swelling orchestral elements. we first get real elements from the original at 0:45, but there's no real melody until 1:15 or so. it quickly moves through the dovahkiin theme before a significant dropoff at 1:35. there's a lot of gregson-williams from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in this scoring, mostly in the reliance on the choir to support the strings instead of vice versa.

this is very short and has a lot of unique material. i recognized source from 0:08-0:25, 0:45-1:02, 1:17-1:36, and 1:39-2:16. that 90s, which is well over >50% of the piece, so that's good. it's just so unfortunate that you're not bringing in other elements of this original because there's so much good material in the track.

i think these samples are right on the border of being not good enough - they're exposed with the strong brass at 0:17 for example - but there's some genuinely nice combinations that are happening here as-is. i think the muddy section from 1:20-1:30 kind of sinks it though and makes it extra obvious. it's sustain-itis through there and i can't really hear the melody much.

i think this arrangement is really interesting outside of a few specific areas where the scoring is too dense. i'd love to hear this with much better samples, but this is, i think, good enough to pass muster on this site. i can't help but wonder if you'd prefer to submit a full version of your entire thing.

 

 

YES

[Liontamer]

Wow, blink and you'll miss it, this was pretty short. A brief arrangement, but well developed. I didn't have any problem with the samples; OCR's bar hasn't been above what pro composers would consider mock-ups. proph's right that this was a bit cluttered during the densest parts, but the part-writing was reasonably discernable, so no issues there. Dynamically, this was well done, which was why it felt so substantive despite the short runtime. I was expecting a cover of Harry Murrell's guitar arrangement and was pleasantly surprised that that wasn't the case; cool to be inspired by Murrell's performance while still standing very far apart from that structure.

YES

[Hemophiliac]

Excellent arrangement, I was expecting it to be more similar to the guitar performance that it was supposedly based off of. It's not though! Plenty of interpretation and plenty of source represented across the board.

The realism of the samples could be better, with precise midi editing outside of musescore (as the artist indicated) and switching of articulation specific patches. What is here though is good enough and has plenty of dynamic range and expression. In a real orchestral context you would not hear the harp so clearly during the forte and tutti portions without amplification. That's a nitpick though.

This absolutely has a place on the front page, YES