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 Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2016 2:16 pm
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2016 4:11 pm
Note: I know absolutely nothing about music theory, and I just looked it up, and I still understand nothing! My characters are much smarter at this than I am. xP As it is, this is as near as I can figure out to what the answer is supposed to be, but I might be wrong, because ech, this is hard!
Nightmare: Jurvik
Prompt: Music theory was...not Jurvik's favorite subject. He didn't like it, like, at all. But being able to read and write music, and understand what was coming from his fingers and his lungs, and how to use that sound for the effect he wanted, well...that was worth learning and worth taking seriously. He poured over his textbook until he thought he even slightly vaguely understood the answer. "The difference between a major and a minor chord has to do with the third note of the chord. The interval between the third note in a major chord is a major third interval, or a gap of about four half-steps up or down. But the interval between the third note in a minor chord is a minor third interval, which is three half-steps up or down. That's what makes a minor chord sound dark or moody, because that usually results in it being flat or sharp, while a major chord sounds bright and cheerful."
Nightmare: Wyrdda
Prompt: Huh boy, this again. She knew she'd covered this before when she was a child, but she had to admit, that was not a lesson that had stuck well in her head. Major and minor chords sound very different in terms of the sounds they make. Major chords are usually described as being bright and cheerful, as are pretty much every other major anything in music, including major scales. Minor chords sound moody and subdued, as do minor scales. The difference between a major and a minor chord is in the third note. For a major chord, the third note will be four half-steps above or below the root note. This interval is known as a "major third." For a minor chord, the third note will be three half-steps above or below the root note instead. This interval is known as a "minor third." Minor thirds tend to place the third as a flat or a sharp note, giving minor chords their eerie sound. There, that should about cover it.
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 5:36 pm
Nightmare: Abrus Fabales
Prompt:
Abrus rolled his eyes as he answered. He knew music, this was a piece of cake! "The difference between major and minor chords and scales boils down to a difference of one essential note – the third." Abrus stopped and let his amazing words soak in. Yeah he had this in the bag! "The third is what gives major-sounding scales and chords their brighter, cheerier sound, and what gives minor scales and chords their darker, sadder sound." The kirin smirked to himself, assured he had this in the bag. Now if only singing was as easy as knowing facts... The kirin would have to go out and practice his voice work some more...
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 3:40 pm
Nightmare: Queresa
Prompt: Queresa knew the answer to this one by heart--her parents had drilled it into her from an early age. "The difference between the major and minor chords comes from a single note, the third. A major key has a different third than its corresponding minor key. Whereas a major key sounds bright and sunny, a minor key sounds dark and gloomy. Not that there's anything wrong with that!" she added quickly. Okay, so what else could she add to this? "The third in a minor scale is called a minor third, while the third in a major scale is called a major third. It really is as simple as that!"
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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2017 2:39 pm
Congratulations, you passed!
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 2:31 pm
Nightmare: JurvikPrompt: Jurvik shrugged. "Well, we were just discussing major and minor chords, so it would be obvious to point out that, for reasons I don't know, and I'm not sure anyone knows, major chords induce happy feelings, while minor chords induce sad or frightened feelings. Just picking the right key can affect the audience in a big way. But there are other aspects of sound that have an effect on emotions. I play the bagpipes, and depending on the number of drones you attach to the bag, they can produce frequencies that are very unsettling. Play the right instruments, and you can really freak people out. This would be useful if you were making a soundtrack or playing creepy music on Haunted Hallows."Nightmare: WyrddaPrompt: Wyrdda pulled out a pen and wrote her answer on a piece of notepaper. Movie soundtracks can convey a lot of emotion even without the use of special keys and scales. They can do this by using leitmotifs--a recurring theme throughout a composition that is associated with a specific person, place, or idea. It's a little risky--you have to introduce the theme earlier to get a big effect, since it relies on the audience's memory and ability to recognize the tune. But some composers have played the audience themselves as instruments by the effective use of leitmotifs. For example, the theme for magic in Space Epic--when that movie series returned after so many years, and we heard that theme played again for the first time, I felt tears well up in my eyes, just as they did in the characters'. Just by repeating it, I remembered every other time it had been played--both the happy times and the heartbreaking ones. It established continuity and keyed us in to how the characters on screen felt remembering friends long past.Nightmare: QueresaPrompt: "The way a person sings a song can have a big impact on the emotions of the audience," Queresa said. "If you sing a song slowly, if you sing it quickly, if you sing it forcefully, if you change the key in which it's played. You get a lot of these around the Winter Solstice, when every pop artist records their favorite song for the radio. Some of them will take an old, cheery classic, but sing it mournfully and wistfully. Just by changing to a minor key and by changing the tempo of the song--singing it softly, pianissimo, instead of forte or fortissimo--you can have a big effect on the way the audience feels. You can even adopt a different accent. Our accents are tied to stereotypes in our culture that can change the way a piece is perceived. An upper-class accent can make a song more serious, more sad, while a rural accent can make a song seem either more comical or more threatening."
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 10:33 am
Nightmare: Aeon  Prompt: Aeon frowned emotions in music, in radio and movies?? She sighed since she didn't really do either of those things, she listened to classical music and she played her violin. Then again there were plenty of pieces that conveyed emotion on her classical music radio station so it didn't have to mean pop music. Aeon considered Lindsey Stirling's shadow dance but she had already done that for another class. Aeon finally chose Radioactive a mixed piece. With singing and violin. The piece started out soft and sad, then turned faster upbeat conveying a feeling of happiness even though things might look dark. The song itself also says as much even though the world has changed welcome to the new age.
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2017 9:00 pm
Nightmare: Abrus
Prompt: Abrus tittered and set his pencil to the paper. Music didn't just affect the mood, it was the mood. It was the beat to witch all life ran by. In a silent environment there could be no such mood at all! Hence why sentient creatures had minds that were always full of tunes, songs, and background music to live their lives by. It was one of the- no, the most important thing in life! Abrus could hear his own background music, and smirked. It was classical. He was a refined kirin, of course he would have classical as his character song.
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