Archive for December, 2007

Mini04 - Two Terran Wraiths and a Brand New SCV!

Happy holidays everyone! This is a brief holiday edition of “Into the Score” and while it is quite short, there are many treats in store for our next episode, chronicling the 1998 Blizzard release of “Starcraft!”

Everything is a crystalline purity around the city of Winnipeg, with freshly fallen snow and a blanket of white that sits on the pine trees in front of the houses. Life is good!

In our next episode, we tackle “Starcraft” and celebrate the 1st birthday of “Into the Score!” On December 29th, ITS turns one! Listen along and celebrate! As well, the following episode will carry an interview with the lead composer of the “Starcraft” franchise, Glenn Stafford! To celebrate both Starcraft and the holidays, our musical selection of this very short episode will be “The 12 Days of Starcraft!” It’s only a snippet, but there are links to it all over the internet (I’ve put one below!)

If you celebrated Hanukkah between the episodes, I hope that it was wonderful and full of family and friends! Also, if you celebrated the winter solstice, I hope that the yule was good to you and full of rejoicing! If you are celebrating Christmas in the coming days, happiest of holidays and enjoy the company of those around you! If you are rejoicing in the pan-African Kwanzaa, enjoy many great celebrations!

Happiest of holidays and I will see you on the 29th! Enjoy the “12 Days of Starcraft!”

Kenley

12 Days of Starcraft 

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15 - Arias and Laments; Rondos and Symphonies

After a brief (though unplanned) hiatus from podcasting, “Into the Score” returns with Episode 15, studying musical themes and practices that span the 19-year run of Konami’s “Castlevania” series.

Also in this episode, we study the influence the influence of Gothic and Romantic music and culture on the games as well as their ongoing prevalance in subculture today. We look at the importance of folklore, mysticism and the supernatural in the ongoing feud between the Belmont Clan and the Dark Lord himself, Count Dracula.

There is particular focus on the first two “Castlevanias” as well as “Symphony of the Night,” which was released in 1997 for the Sony PlayStation. The composers of choice for the show are Kukeiha Club and Michiru Yamane - how did they approach the scores of the series? How are they same? How are they different?

Only one way to find out…

There is also a supplementary image regarding the focus on style and structure versus emotion and evocation in Western Music. That image can be found right here.

Enjoy the episode and always feel free to leave a comment!

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