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Invaders From The South (Old)
by Dragonas

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Submitted on: Apr 07, 2008 - 03:26:36 AM
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Keywords Ukraine (6)Turkey (4)history (16)trilogy (7)battle (30)war (114)marching (6)struggle (5)epic (36)historic (1)big (14)dramatic (24)Dragonas (16)
Description This is a musical story of the Turkish invasions into Europe, specifically Ukraine.
This piece is actually only one song from a trilogy about the history of Ukraine I am trying to compose at the moment.
Basically, the Turks would invade from the south and march across modern day Romania and the Black Sea.
The history of military music often comes across the expression ’Turkish music’.
What it actually means is the campaign music of the Janissaries.
Sultan Orkran (l326-l359) was the first to employ Janissaries as his personal guards.
The word is derived from two Turkish words: veni (new) ehir (army). Strictly speaking, "Turkish music" is synonymous with the characteristic sound and rhythm produced by kettle drums, cymbals, tambourine, triangle and the Schellanbaum or "Jingling Johnny".
The purpose of such clashing noises was not merely to turn their own warrior wild but, primarily, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemy with the ear-splitting row.
This type of martial music was heard early on in Europe, during the Turkish wars of conquest in the West.
This song is simply meant to have a "Turkish" or "Arabian" feel to it.
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magnatone said 239 days ago
Invaders!
Wow, this really does have a cinematic feel to it! Thanks for your description, it gives the music much more meaning, and that history is extremely interesting. Congratulations on this huge work!

Dragonas said 239 days ago
Thanks
for the encouraging words.
I am waiting to record a real Soprano singing the vocal melody.
I think a real human voice would add a lot of power to this song.
Cheers!




drakonis said 239 days ago
nice orchestration work here!
Enjoy the feel you get here... I can imagine an encampment on the march. There's a lot of stuff going on here, and you managed to keep things quite clear, even in the full passages, no small feat of mixing, excellent! I liked the intro "phonograph" of a Russian sounding theme, overpowered by the impending drumming and coming of the Turks.

While listening I started making up this terribly esoteric pun about how the Turkish bands would play for such long un-interrupted periods, they would start playing slightly out of tune by the time they got to the enemies, and would often be so out of breath, they'd collapse on the battlefield... falling into what became known as the "Turkish Coma". Later, people referred to this slightly out-of-tune playing as the "Turkish Comma", and forgot its original origin (Go look up "Turkish Comma"!) :-) There, that's my made-up history to battle your real history.

I like the unusual harmonies and strong rhythmic drive in this. You could probably make it twice as long and it would still work, by saving some of the builds and working them in more slowly. I liked the little touches, the female singer, chorus, etc.

ttfn,
Drakonis



Dragonas said 239 days ago
I'm so glad...
that you identified the intro as a "Russian - Soviet" sounding phonograph playing the melody as the Turks march closer.
I was worried that no one would pick up on that!

btw, I looked up "Turkish Comma" and you are totally right, it is indeed a musical phenomenon when music gets slightly out of tune. :-)
Thanks Drak

Dragonas said 239 days ago
Drak, You sparked my interest...
and I did more research about the Turkish Comma.
I was hasty and replied to your comment too soon.
So, I did more music research (which I love!).
Apparently, the Turks recognize four different sound intervals in their musical scales.
They divide their octave into 53 microtones. Meaning that each whole tone is subdivided into nine equal parts, each called a comma (koma in Turkish).
A comma equals exactly 22.6415 cents.
Cents: The Western Modern Logarithmic scale divides the octave into 1200 cents, meaning that each semitone is worth 100 cents (thus whole tone is 200 cents).
So, the result is a lot more notes are available in Turkish and Arabic music than in Western music.
That's why we hear all those semitones and "in between" notes in Turkish music.
Thanks for bringing out the bookworm in me, Drakonis!

drakonis said 239 days ago
EXACTLY!
I was *hoping* it would spark interest and make you and others curious and look it up... awesome! Next week, we will talk about herbal remedies for the "melisma"! As for the Russian music, I guess it comes from me listening to lots of Russian Cossack music... and my favorite "Carol of the Bells" is an ancient folk song from the Ukraine. Anyway, great work here.

ttfn,
Drakonis

LaLa_Divina said 168 days ago
Carol
Apparently Carol of the Bells is not that ancient but it is Ukranian. I know a guy who knows a guy who wrote that song. It was actually an assignment for his music theory class. That is what I have been told anyway.

screamalexz said 239 days ago
.....
this is great love the history there is a part in there that reminds me of a cartoon or something that i cant place exactly but i hum it a lot at du dud du dud du duu duu something like that.. wish i could figure out what its from cuz i always have that sound stuck in my head. i know it's supposed to strike fear but i can't get over that theme song sound that i never seem able to place. loony tunes perhaps? maybe thats it. ne ways nicely put together

Dragonas said 237 days ago
Looney Tunes?
haha, ok, I never thought about Looney Tunes when I was writing this one.
But that's exactly why I post here.
Thanks for listening.

said 239 days ago
History and art
Interesting and enjoyable.

Dragonas said 237 days ago
:-)
Thank you sir.



Feter said 239 days ago
Invaders From The South
dramatic ...well done ..good history reading
yes I read that about mamluki era and their
use of music at their own battles .something
I read at the book of C .Sachs !
thnx for sharin !

Dragonas said 230 days ago
Cool
I will have to check out that book by C .Sachs.


said 238 days ago
Lovely sounds

Well produced loved it.
Peace Dee.

Dragonas said 229 days ago
Lovely Dee
Thanks for the kind words, Dee.
I'm so glad you noticed the attention to detail to the sounds used.
You rock!

said 222 days ago
Wow!
Bravo and Encore!

A tour de force!

Be well!

ageofthedeathtree said 222 days ago
another great piece!
amazing...love it! very good soundtrack series. once again, great mix of sounds. i love the "phonogragh" at the beginning...really fits! can't wait to hear this with vocals!

age
-sons of hypnos

Moviz said 208 days ago
Sounds
excellent to me and I enjoyed the historical music lesson too, regards M

rsorensen said 207 days ago
dark
very cool melodies. nice piece!

Dragonas said 177 days ago
Ah thanks
I just saw your nice comment and wanted to say thank you.
I'm so glad you liked it.
Stay tuned because I just had a real Opera singer (Soprano) sing the choral bits and I'm going to repost it soon.
:-)

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