Fanfare (From Runescape) Orchestral March

In a city protected by the white nights of Fallador Castle, there is much to be contented by. A financially rich and beautiful city with a fair and strong king to lead. But, there may be secrets lurking about, and beneath the city, the mines are often troubled.

Fanfare features 2 Strong central themes, one that is very exciting, and one mysterious. It features a piccolo solo on the secondary theme, and a cannon of both themes to end.

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I had played the game Runescape for 2 years, and I fell in love with a certain Piece from it, simply titled "Fanfare" I loved the energy and the mystery of it... of course, I was hearing it in like, 16 bit sound... so it wasn't really all that great.

So years later here I am writing it out as an Orchestral March. I say orchestral because I included Strings + Harp in the score, but I think it could be done as a field march if you had a synthesizer in the PIT.

I have had practice with things before, and I used a lot of elements my band director stresses, especially "Exaggerating" the dynamics. Seeing as this is computer sounds here, I thought I'd TRY to get it close to a real performance. Someone of my status does not usually have access to an orchestra, sooo... yeah.

This is also my first time writing a percussion part for 5 bass drums, snare line and cymbals. I used to ignore percussion, but It adds so much, but I feel I am not so good at it.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Fanfare
• runescape
• rune
• scape
• orchestra
• march
• piece
• epic
• minstrel
• fallador
• french
• horn
• piccolo
• flute
• strings

[Sounlimited]

did you use some sort of software to make this?

[Rodier1128]

@Sounlimited Yes, Finale.

[Sounlimited]

@Rodier1128 cool are you gonna make some more runescape music transitions like this because if you are that would be awesome

[Rodier1128]

@Sounlimited I have already done Arabian, and I'll probbly update this one. I used my old sound library on this one.

[Anakin9145]

cool...

[Sereniama]

The king is ill...

[cullengudz]

I love how runescapes graphics arent really like the pictures in this video

[danjaman5]

Really cool, did you do it by ear? If so, they have the enire midi soundtrack around for download; it sounded different at parts - not wrong, just remixed. Also, I heard that part at the end from Autumn Voyage :D Check out my mario paint of this.

[Midimania100]

Very nice! Good use of visuals, creative manipulation of volume, and I especially love the introduction XD It certainly holds far more expression than my version, that's for sure. The only thing I'd watch out for is sometimes (i.e. 1:05) the volume shifts can seem a tad too extreme, but given that this video is almost two years old you have likely learned from that already XD Even then, however, this is a very good piece, well done =)