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Steampunk music?
« on: February 07, 2010, 02:44:32 AM »
So, what music do people think is a) appropriate for Leviathans, b) appropriate for steampunk in general, c) both?

From a classical sense, Elgar's Pomp & Circumstance, Rule Brittania, and John Phillip Sousa definitely meet criteria a). I'm also investigating a band called Abney Park - anyone putting a song together called "Airship Pirate" deserves investigation.

Other ideas?

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Re: Steampunk music?
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2010, 04:03:12 AM »
I'm thinking mostly about a) at the moment. So, Stravinsky's The Firebird. The music, rather than the story. It's almost always what I imagine when I look at a Leviathan. Holst's The Planets -- particularly the "Mars" movement. And Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture -- complete with Leviathan-based cannon fire... for greater effect!

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Re: Steampunk music?
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2010, 05:09:34 AM »
Since I saw it Friday: The new Sherlock Holmes. The Score was done by Hans Zimmer do I have to say more?  8)

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Re: Steampunk music?
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2010, 05:13:41 AM »
I love the score - Zimmer's always competent, but rarely does he have the gravitas I'd want for Levs. Certainly, the Sherlock Holmes score is one of his best recently. While the 'Pirates' scores were OK, they lacked any sea connection for me (too much raised on Captain Blood, maybe), and in any case were mainly scoredby Badelt and other products of the Zimmermatic well-trained to ape the Master.

(In case you didn't pick it up, I'm very opinionated about soundtracks ;) )

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Re: Steampunk music?
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2010, 06:53:04 AM »
Apocalyptica. Full stop.

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Re: Steampunk music?
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2010, 02:08:17 PM »
I have seen some steam punk bands on some forums and blogs I visit.

Nice sound to them, but not my style. Though the tune sounds perfect for steam punk movie/animation.

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Re: Steampunk music?
« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2010, 05:37:44 PM »
Something classical and clean, to provide a very visible contrast between what the battles are going to be portrayed in media to the public and how the battles actually unfold.  I can almost guarantee the media will portray Leviathans and their captians much the same way it gave life to the pilots of WWI.  Shiny, well-kept heroes that engage in gentlemanly combat in the skies above the normalfolk.

On the flipside, something to reflect the actual, inevitable horror of those battles, and of the factories that allow the battles to take place.  Something dark and almost ugly as people die in horrible ways falling from the sky or burning in ammunition explosions or ripped limb from limb in deafening cannonades or crushed or maimed in some monstrous factory.

Vivaldi's Four Season fit the former perfectly, I think, especially Summer.
I can't really think of anything to fit the latter off-hand, sorry.

EDIT:  Excuse me as I go try to cheer myself back up somehow.
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Re: Steampunk music?
« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2010, 03:48:17 PM »
Ride of the Valkyries...


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Re: Steampunk music?
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2010, 03:21:31 PM »
Well, while I was playing a few games, I couldn't help thinking of the music from Star Trek animated. Has a nice sea-going, epic feel to it.

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And, then there's that little operatic chorus used during Meister Dance Battle scenes from  My-Hime Z: My Otome.


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Re: Steampunk music?
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2010, 09:17:50 PM »
Something classical and clean, to provide a very visible contrast between what the battles are going to be portrayed in media to the public and how the battles actually unfold.  I can almost guarantee the media will portray Leviathans and their captians much the same way it gave life to the pilots of WWI.  Shiny, well-kept heroes that engage in gentlemanly combat in the skies above the normalfolk.

On the flipside, something to reflect the actual, inevitable horror of those battles, and of the factories that allow the battles to take place.  Something dark and almost ugly as people die in horrible ways falling from the sky or burning in ammunition explosions or ripped limb from limb in deafening cannonades or crushed or maimed in some monstrous factory.

Vivaldi's Four Season fit the former perfectly, I think, especially Summer.
I can't really think of anything to fit the latter off-hand, sorry.

EDIT:  Excuse me as I go try to cheer myself back up somehow.


For the latter, Night on Bald Mountain or Stravinsky's Firebird Suite

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Re: Steampunk music?
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2010, 09:52:55 PM »
For the latter, Night on Bald Mountain or Stravinsky's Firebird Suite
Beat you to it!:-

So, Stravinsky's The Firebird. The music, rather than the story. It's almost always what I imagine when I look at a Leviathan.
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Re: Steampunk music?
« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2010, 12:03:03 PM »
Well, you want contrast. How about the duet from the courtyard scene in Shawshank Redemption?

A) the music itself is period accurate.

b) the events of the story are only 3 or 4 decades hence.

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Re: Steampunk music?
« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2010, 01:10:31 PM »
Some pieces by Eric Coates would be good.  He did Dambustsers, and the Spitfire March, amongst others.

I'm also tempted to suggest some of Sullivan.
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Re: Steampunk music?
« Reply #13 on: February 13, 2010, 04:24:27 PM »
Apologies for double post, but I've just had a couple of thought:

1) The beginning is the end is the beginning.

2)  The Gallop from Orphée aux Enfers by Offenbach (aka the Can Can)
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Re: Steampunk music?
« Reply #14 on: February 14, 2010, 12:43:17 PM »
So, what music do people think is a) appropriate for Leviathans, b) appropriate for steampunk in general, c) both?

From a classical sense, Elgar's Pomp & Circumstance, Rule Brittania, and John Phillip Sousa definitely meet criteria a). I'm also investigating a band called Abney Park - anyone putting a song together called "Airship Pirate" deserves investigation.

Other ideas?
What about non-classical music?