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Composed by Aric Noble. Contemporary,Folk. Score and parts. 10 pages. Aric Noble #5306619. Published by Aric Noble (A0.1025077).Over the past few years I have become obsessed with Norse Mythology, and I mean "real" Norse Mythology. I say that with
quotes because in my research I realized that a lot of people tell different stories. This is mainly because back when Christianity was growing,
the Christians saw anything that wasn't Christian as pagan, so they got rid of it all. So that is why Greek, Roman, and Norse religions faded into mythologies, and
all that was left was passed around in folk tales. And also because Marvel tells a very different tale of the mythology than the research I have collected and I want people to know these stories.
Now moving passed the history lesson and into the music. This is interesting for me because this is the biggest original piece
that I've ever made. This is going to be a multimovement piece, and this is the 1st movement, Ginnungagap, the endless void.
This movement describes The Void, and the two lands of Fire(Muspelheim) and Ice(Niflhiem).
Starting with "The Void", it describes the blackness, and I use the absence of instruments to give this feeling, but however to give
2 of the other themes to foreshadow it. It moves into this wild cascading theme for the "Niflheim" theme to describe the cold cascading environment of the world.
After that it slows into a dark and ominous theme for "Muspelheim(Surtr's Destiny)". This was an interesting part to make
because in mythology, Surtr, also referred to as Surt, is the fabled fire giant who destroys Asgard. No one knows where he
comes from, but from the moment of his creation, he knew of his destiny to destroy Asgard so he spent all of his time
forging his sword to burrow into Asgard. I used a break drum to symbolize a hammer hitting an anvil to forge a sword,
a lingering sound of Surtr's destiny.
After this, I brought both themes together to resemble "The Clash" of the two worlds to create the Norse universe.
The final theme in this first movement is entitled "I am Ymir". In myhtology, Ymir is the father of everything. Created from the
clash, he gave creation to all the gods, humans, giants, elves, and dwarves. This final theme takes Surtr's theme and flips
it to be mo.
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