Music thread

[DinoToyForum]

@ DinoToyForum - that is lovely! I had a book when I was just an eft called "The Encyclopedia of Ancient Life" whose cover featured a good old-fashioned misty gray-green swamp filled with Triassic beasties. When I was listening to your music I imagined a painting like that, but animated, for each movement. Scuttling trilobites, lumbering sauropods, galloping perissodactyls, and so forth.

Thanks! That's what I was going for.   In my head the scenes change quite drastically. For example, in the Cenozoic movement there are three successive 'scenes' for specific events, 1. Recovery after the k-T extinction event (Palaeocene, Eocene); 2. Diversification of mammals/savannah/jungle (Oligocene-Pliocene); 3. The ice ages (and the appearance of humans)(Pleistocene).

[Spinokaprogorgon]

I created a 'symphony'. 'Eras of Life' is a short (10 minute) four-movement piece celebrating the history of life on Earth. Each movement represents a period in deep time, starting with the oldest 'Precambrian', and proceeding through the Palaeozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic Eras. A bit like Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, or Holst's The Planets. It's my interpretation, but if you know anything about prehistory, you'll probably understand what I was going for. It's far from professional as it's all created digitally, and the sound quality isn't great, so I may go back and make some changes or improvements. But I'm still glad to share it. It's on the DinoToyBlog channel on PeerTube (on the Makertube site) but I'm not posting it directly on the blog because it's a bit niche.

I'd welcome feedback and constructive criticism. Originally, I was going to have a separate movement for each Period, but that seemed a bit ambitions so I settled on 'Eras'!

https://makertube.net/w/2KHHjGvBKUW1AC3AGpVZHQ

that's crazy   for these past few weeks, I've been trying to match a classic piece to points in earth history for example the first creature, first fish coming out of the water, Permian extinction and so on, so I can play them in order for a recital or something. So far I am certain about die moldau for the first creatures, swan lake for KT mass extinction, and dvoraks symphony 9 for Permian extinction or maybe the appearance of humans. If any of you have classic music suggestions for any other part of earth's history, let me know

[DinoToyForum]

I created a 'symphony'. 'Eras of Life' is a short (10 minute) four-movement piece celebrating the history of life on Earth. Each movement represents a period in deep time, starting with the oldest 'Precambrian', and proceeding through the Palaeozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic Eras. A bit like Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, or Holst's The Planets. It's my interpretation, but if you know anything about prehistory, you'll probably understand what I was going for. It's far from professional as it's all created digitally, and the sound quality isn't great, so I may go back and make some changes or improvements. But I'm still glad to share it. It's on the DinoToyBlog channel on PeerTube (on the Makertube site) but I'm not posting it directly on the blog because it's a bit niche.

I'd welcome feedback and constructive criticism. Originally, I was going to have a separate movement for each Period, but that seemed a bit ambitions so I settled on 'Eras'!

https://makertube.net/w/2KHHjGvBKUW1AC3AGpVZHQ

that's crazy   for these past few weeks, I've been trying to match a classic piece to points in earth history for example the first creature, first fish coming out of the water, Permian extinction and so on, so I can play them in order for a recital or something. So far I am certain about die moldau for the first creatures, swan lake for KT mass extinction, and dvoraks symphony 9 for Permian extinction or maybe the appearance of humans. If any of you have classic music suggestions for any other part of earth's history, let me know

Interesting! My Palaeozoic movement has an obvious transition to represent life emerging from the water and flourishing on the land.

As far as existing classical pieces go, I always felt Prokofiev's Dance of the Knights, Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64, I, works well for the Jurassic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX6GHiFKovw

And maybe Beethoven's, Symphony No.7 in A major op.92, II, Allegretto, has a kind of 'Cambrian Explosion' vibe to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi05EG6sTVQ

[Protopatch]

I created a 'symphony'. 'Eras of Life' is a short (10 minute) four-movement piece celebrating the history of life on Earth.

I could easily imagine some aquatico-plastico-weirdo prehistoric characters moving to this music
Love it !

[Zhuchengotyrant]

If any of you have classic music suggestions for any other part of earth's history, let me know

This isn't classical music per se, but have you ever heard Stevie Wonder's secret life of plants album? Two songs in particular I always associate with evolutionary time.

Ai no sono has a part in the middle that is just some very rich and dramatic instrumentation that always reminds me of K-Pg for whatever reason.

Ecclesiastes has a sort of foreboding tone to it, but elicits general feelings of progress in uncertainty to me.

So not classical music, but definitely some pieces you may be able to use! I recommend listening to that album to everyone anyway! 

[BlueKrono]

I would recommend "Primavera" by Ludovico Einaudi. Primavera means "Spring", and the song is evocative of the inundating spring rains. Could easily translate to an extinction event. Certainly good imagination fuel imo.