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Ancient Times Musical Example
Ancient Times Secret Score
Ancient Times Animated Score
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Secret Composer Synopsis1 - To depict ancient times in your music, use instruments that have a simple and primitive quality to their sound. Use ethnic sounding woodwinds that have a unique and breathy tone. Use ancient sounding percussion such as finger cymbals and primitive marimbas. 2 - Use a scale that conveys times past or civilizations long gone. A very effective scale for this is the Phrygian scale (a/k/a Phrygian mode). The notes of the C Phrygian scale are C, Db, Eb, F, G, Ab, Bb and back to C:
3 - Use high violins to softly play an open chord containing the root and perfect 5th of the scale. You might also want to add the octave above. When using the C Phrygian scale, these notes would be C, G and, optionally, the C above.
Hold this chord to sustain an ethereal atmosphere. Our primitive sounding woodwinds and percussion can play short melodic lines underneath this atmosphere.
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