Hall of the Rivan King inspired by David Eddings Belgariad

My very first piece composed for full symphony orchestra. There is a lot I am proud of in here, and a bit that shows it was my first full orchestra piece. I was teaching myself a bit about orchestration through this and the basic structure and orchestration is based on John Williams' Throne Room from Star Wars A New Hope. I just plugged my own themes in instead of Williams for a lot of it. This is inspired by the scene when Garion enters the Hall of the Rivan King and finds out who he really is.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• David Eddings
• Rivan King
• Garion
• Belgariad
• Belgarath
• Polgara
• orchestra music

[mrbyz]

Thanks for the kind words!

[BLACKHUMINGBIRD]

Wish you had done the bit where Ce'nedia cired out "Oh,no!" and what Bel/Garion saw what his friends had around them and the looks aupon there faces,

[mrbyz]

@BLACKHUMINGBIRD Honestly when I wrote this, I was really experimenting with writing for full orchestra and gathering most events from memory. I probably should have consulted the books more to get specifics down right. Thanks for the idea. Some day if I update it, I may put that in there.

[mrbyz]

I am looking at putting together a CD of all of my Belgariad music (including some new music I have not put up on youtube yet) on Etsy. I will post when/if i make that happen.

[mrbyz]

Thanks for the compliments. I actually wrote Belgarath's, Garion's, and Pol's theme so that they would play counterpoint to one another. This way I could combine those three themes together at the same time should I want to. I have always loved the Belgariad. Those books are what finally got me into reading. they always have a special place in my heart.

[Neferlue]

@TheShadowwolf88 In 'The Rivan Codex' it was stated that he did not wish for any of the books to be made as movies... to 'teach the Nintendo generation how to read', I believe was the exact quote.

He may have underestimated the coverage though. How many people picked up LOTR after the movies were made to read it themselves?

[TheShadowwolf88]

I´ve read the books and this music is SPOT ON!

I truly hope some moviemaker gets his thumb out off his ass and make a movie series or a TV series offcourse with a little more commitment then for example "Eragon" and "The Golden Compass" wich where suposed to have been sequeled!

[BLACKHUMINGBIRD]

But very good.

[karsten69]

Are you ready...? *cue song*

[peskylisa]

@mrbyz I'd like to hear it!

[SupremeColZod]

You need to write more... this is just great.