Like Judas Maccabeus, I sometimes consider listing what music people should listen to when reading my AAR since it puts things in a particular mood.
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'Tis a very good idea, yes! I actually incorporated the music I was listening to into the storyline of my AAR The Hussite Lament; two of the Hussites' war hymns appear in the fantastic overture "Hussite Song" by Antonin Dvorak (the absolute best performance of this can be found here).phargle said:
stnylan said:
no wonder your writing is so intense! I wonder what the music would be if you wrote a fluffball comedy Sarmatia - if you did, I would post a pretty huge list of recommended music for all moods and from all corners of the earth ...
I think I've spent about 100 hours of my life just exploring their website, discovering composers like Villa Lobos, Vieuxtemps, Vanhal, Viotti, and Vivaldi (you think you know him until you discover they have four CDs of bassoon concertos). And that's just one letter of the alphabet... 
Well there is always music on in my head. It's pretty loud and keeps me awake at night, but it also keeps me sane plsu it howls down all the scary voices.
So whether I write an AAR or chase cars there is alway something on
So whether I write an AAR or chase cars there is alway something on
I've got a totally different taste in music than the rest of you wirtAARs. I just think it'd be entirely too hard to write with Pink Floyd or the Red Hot Chili Peppers in the background.
I usually go with Strauss, Mussorgsky, Schubert, etc. but mostly when I play. My AARs are brief so no harm done with The Way to Amarillo in background by Tony Christie or Jump in my Car by The Hoff :rofl:
Try melodic death metal. But no, that's not what I listen to when writing. Mostly Jethro Tull or Jane nowadays. Prog or calmer forms of rock. And Tool, but that doesn't fit when writing...Inkana said:
I do tend to have something on in the background. Occasionally the tone of the music will creep into the writing. You really don't want to see what I wrote while listening to the Velvet Underground's Venus in Furs
Enya is good in my opinion. The Memory of Trees, Boadicea, On my way Home, Only Time. Basically paint the Sky with Stars and A Day Without Rain albums go great for me with CK or Rome TW. Maybe It's time to make an inspirational playlist for TW series (Shogun will be tricky) and EU series?
I listen to music as I write, if I feel in the mood for music. since my musical taste is almost entirely encompassed by metal, that's what I listen to. depending on how I feel, it may be power metal, melodic death metal, gothic metal, symphonic metal, pagan metal or maybe something a little lighter...like hard rock.
Marilyn Manson? I find him hystericalHajji Giray I said:
Actually one of the lightest AAR sequences I have ever written - the Russian war in my defunct Learning Protestantism with Livonia - was written entirely to the requiem. Hence the chapter headings.
Usually when writing the next update of my AAR, I listen to Crusader Kings music, but recently I've been listening to EUIII music.
I've also listened to Knights of Honor music at times.
I've also listened to Knights of Honor music at times.
Nope, when I'm working on the Fallen Eagle I find that music distracts me and keeps me from thinking clearly about the scene I'm trying to project. I prefer good ol' silence, as any loud noise really breaks my concentration, so yeah. But I do listen to music when I proof read.
Today's listening for my AAR update: Smetana: Ma Vlast (Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit) on www.naxos.com - required listening for romantic classical music fans.
How that works? Do you download the musics or listen like internet radio?Hajji Giray I said:
I tend to listen to the Final Fantasy Tactics soundtrack every time I write for Resurrection of the Romanovs. With Freedom Conquers All, I tend to listen to Wagner. Whenever I'm writing an essay for class or something else trivial, I don't listen to anything.
You can't download it, but it's not internet radio either.hito1 said:
(They do have a Naxos Radio site separately.) What you can do is basically call up the music on-demand, and it will stream it live through your internet browser program.For example, I could log in to the website, click "Search", type "Tchaikovsky" in the search-for-a-composer box, click the result saying "Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich", and scroll down through the (VERY disorganized!
) list of all the Tchaikovsky music I can listen to, until I find (for example) Piano Concerto No. 1. Then I click this and bring a list of each track on the CD, and I can click on whichever one I like to hear it. Sometimes I only listen to the finale!Hope this helps
P.S. They have three recordings of Tchaikovksy's Piano Concerto No. 1. The one with catalog number 557257 is the best one.
I tend to do most of my writing in a busy Taiwanese restaurant with which I am on great terms with the owner. There's usually a radio playing, but is almost always drowned out by the Mandarin conversations around me. And no, I do not speak Mandarin.
It seems that classical music rally dominates the tastes of this part of the forum. I usually just listen to my favourite bands Tool, Rage Against the Machine and 36 Crazyfists. If the writing is proving difficult at all though I usually need to turn it off so as not to be distracted.
I need to correct my earlier statement. A good portion of the CK part of the Bavarian Saga was written to "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" by AC/DC.