"The second star to the right
Shines in the night for you
To tell you that the dreams you plan
Really can come true
The second star to the right
Shines with a light so rare
And if it's Never Land you need
It's light will lead you there"
I've always been interested in flying. Its one of those things that people would love to be able to do. The thought has crossed my mind several times (definitely when I was older than I should have been thinking about something else).
Imagine sneaking out the house late at night as kids. Parents are asleep (like in The SNOWMAN) out in to the back garden then lift off... YOU CAN FLY!
That is what I imagined when I first heard the first few minutes of Vltava by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana. It actually was a mixture of that and THE SNOWMAN.
The sounds ominous but then the opening melody looks like this:
E minor if anybody is interested... I personally feel it is like the motion you get when you are taking off and looking out the window at night... you see the nights sky and you can see the world, street lights, maybe snow, people and cars over bridges.
What else do you see?
You think of what everybody might be doing in that city. As all flights, after a few minutes you have to land. At around 3 minutes the flight is starting to land.. and you find yourself walking in the streets of Prague. Beautiful buildings, lots of people, some dancing.
This new theme in in C major:
For a brief moment you feel happy seeing other people being happy dancing in the streets and maybe celebrating a wedding. You get to a quiet road close to the water and look up at the nights sky. You see the most graceful thing... a boat flying across the sky
You fly up to join it and its empty. You look back down to the city and now it seems all quiet and peaceful during this quiet section in the music...
You decide to start sailing the empty boat as the original theme starts again to continue your adventure but halfway through you meet some turbulence and the music gets dramatic as you sail through the storm...
You come through the storm and it is MORNING and you have found your way home!
THE MUSIC ENDS IN A TRIUMPHANT FORTE AS YOU ENTER THE HARBOUR. Your friends and family are happy to see you. WHAT AN ADVENTURE!
I would like you to listen to this piece and do the same two things but this peace of music is quite descriptive I feel so follow your story adventure. This one was mine above but you may have your own.
AND
Listen to how the main theme starts, goes away, new one starts the new scene, but the original theme keeps reappearing as you move on the journey. It starts minor but sometimes changes to a happier sound. Feel the difference and what does that do to your characters adventure?
Let me know in the comments below what you hear/see!
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