This song was from the movie, “Exodus” in 1960. It was written by Ernest Gold, who was an American award-winning composer, and who wrote nearly 100 film and television scores between 1945 and 1992. I personally have never seen the movie, nor do I have any interest in it, but when I heard this song for the first time when I was four years old, I fell in love with it, so I decided to make this one of my first recording projects.
In this arrangement, there are six Bb Clarinet parts, and two Bb Bass Clarinet Parts. I designated Clarinet 1 as Soprano 1 voice, Clarinet 2 as Soprano 2, Clarinet 3 as Alto 1, and so on until Clarinet 6, which is Tenor 2 voice. The two Bass Clarinets are Bass 1 and 2 voices. The instruments are panned such that there are two quartets of STAB, Soprano 1 being the far left and Bass 2 being the far right. I chose not to use reverb with this arrangement because it seemed to be more warm and intimate-sounding without it.
Mega Man 5 – Proto Man Level 1
Being a child of the late 80’s/early 90’s, I was raised around video games. There was something magical about the sound of the Nintendo, particularly the music in the Mega Man series (also known as Rock Man in Japan). This song is one of many representative songs of my childhood nostalgia. This arrangement calls for two Bb Clarinets, two Eb Alto Clarinets, and one Bb Bass Clarinet. I used a small amount of reverb, and I used an echo delay on both of the Bb Clarinet parts in an effort to simulate the sound of the Nintendo more. Being that this was originally a song designed for the Nintendo to play, it was fairly more difficult on clarinet!
Once again, this is another video game song. This game was and still is my absolute number one favorite game ever. It was for the SNES, and came out August 22, 1995 in North America. The music in this game was scored by Yasunori Mitsuda and Nobuo Uematsu, one of the most famous video game score composers. This arrangement calls for two Eb Sopranino Clarinets, four Bb Soprano Clarinets, one Eb Alto Clarinet, two Bb Bass Clarinets, and one Bb Contra Bass Clarinet. Though I had planned on and looked forward to playing the Contra Bass part, the Contra Bass Clarinet that was available to me unfortunately was unplayable and any low notes would just squeek. I also arranged MIDI percussion (Orchestra Set Drum Kit and Timpini) and used the Cakewalk TTS-1 soft synth to produce the drum sounds. I panned the percussion center, and I panned from left to right the lowest to highest parts (Bass Clarinet 2 is in left channel, Eb Clarinet 1 is in right channel, etc.) There is also a quick decay, large room reverb used in this song.
This song was done in Fruity Loops Studio 7.0. A friend of mine and I started this song originally as a ring tone for our cell phones, but we decided it should continue into a full song. It’s difficult to say what genre this song is – I think it would fall somewhere between Drum & Bass, Jungle, IDM, and maybe some Trance.
When we are growing up, we have several childhood memories that we begin sifting through randomly – some good and some bad – nevertheless, we move on from some memories, and some stick with us forever. Some we might not remember until several years later. This song reflects the inner child in everyone that we may or may not consciously think about.
This song was also done in Fruity Loops Studio 7.0. This song was also done in collaboration with me and one of my friends. We have been working on this song off and on since last summer, and have finished it this semester. This song’s title is “Scatter.” The song is best monitored with ear phones, because as the title suggests, the song should make you feel “scattered” and take your mind in multiple directions at once. This song is way more “trancier” than the previous, and would probably fall directly under the “Trance” genre.