Ancient music for my novel
By suspenseful
@suspenseful (40192)
Canada
November 22, 2008 2:51pm CST
I am writing a novel, and part of it is when the hero hears a bard tells a saga in a singing manner. So I went to look at the mode music of the Greeks since that would be probably as to how he would tell it, sort of like a Gregorian chant but older. My church uses the ancient Greek modes as well, and I find the study very interesting. And I do love Bach. So I got to thinking of when someone writes a fantasy, or a book based on ancient times, do they make up their own songs and music, or do they borrow from what they consider would be appropriate for the period?
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@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
23 Nov 08
I would say they do both. Or a mixture at atleast, that is what I would try to do so that it would match a novel I would be writing. Well good luck and happy writing.
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@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
11 Dec 08
Thanks for the best response I really appreciate it alot.And good luck. Hope everything turns out okay.
@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
24 Nov 08
I think that one can do both. A lot of people like to make up their own because that makes the fantasy more of a fantasy, but others like to put a touch of the real times into the books so the fantasy will still be a fantasy, but will be a more accurate portrayal of the time period in which it supposedly took place.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
27 Nov 08
I did find a site about ancient Roman music and it is something like the modes we sing in our church. So I will try to make up some pieces (you know in case they make it into a movie.) but I might need someone who took more music theory than I learn when I took my piano lessons years ago.
@mipen2006 (5528)
• Australia
22 Nov 08
I'm sorry I can't help you suspensful, but let me take this opportunity to wish you the best of luck with your writing. Regards, mipen
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
22 Nov 08
Not being very musical, I have never done anything like that. I do like to see it done, in the correct style, when I read a book, even if the writer makes up song/story, after all what do we know of what has been lost?
I'm more of a story teller and once was working on a story and I wrote a story to set it up. When I read this to a group of writers they wanted to know why I was reading them a historial thing to them. I told them I had made it up and they were surprised!
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