Lucius Mattheson Posted June 26, 2018 Report Share Posted June 26, 2018 I re-read ''Shifting Loyalties'' to-night, and without giving away any details, the Secretary dances a triumphant gavotte. I have always imagined this scene with one specific piece of music -- Handel's gavotte in G major, played on the piano and not on the harpsichord. It's a very simple, charming piece of music, quite within the capability of an able child and full of gaiety: sheer triumph is a very simple childlike emotion and I imagine that Lucius would find it most appropriate. That led me to thinking about music and the setting of Malifaux: does anyone else make musical associations with stories, scenes or characters, and if so what pieces of music remind you of Malifaux? Anything -- classical, modern (popular, rock and roll, metal), non-Western (naturally appropriate for the Ten Thunders!) you like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MudgeBlack Posted June 29, 2018 Report Share Posted June 29, 2018 'The Damned' Grimly Fiendish always reminds me of the Ressers in general and Nico in particular. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIpv0fQW4YU 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Mattheson Posted June 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2018 Many thanks for your reply: the lyrics are somewhat like spare prose-poetry, aren't they? Capable of so many Malifaux interpretations: Quote ''He doesn't know that it's all wrong Simply fiendish, a child caught in a grown up world No lies convince the court'' This catches something I have always felt but been unable to express -- the childishness of the Resurrectionists, the shameless curiosity of McMourning or Seamus' mad dance through the world (the ''Mad Hatter'', the allusion to the child-world of Alice which can be quite terrifyingly twisted -- cf. the Mad Tea Party in ''Dreamchild'' -- is, I think, no accident or thoughtless allusion), the whimsies of Mortimer, Sebastian and the Dead Man's Ball, Gwenifer's vicious little piece of revenge on the two little girls, Kirai's unadulterated bliss or hate -- children are essentially amoral and the Resurrectionists, amongst the death and violence, have essentially the same childlike gleeful amorality. Knowledge of uncanny mysteries has made them consider themselves above conventional morality and has essentially returned them to the ''state of nature'', the moral position of a little child moved by every passion. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatlatinspeakingguy Posted July 2, 2018 Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 Whenever I hear that, it makes me want to play Jack Daw or Parker Barrows so badly: Not sure if I am able to grasp every nuance of the lyrics, but I really like them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Mattheson Posted July 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2018 Thank you -- another very interesting piece of music. Quote Blood-shot, your eyes drop, And the skin's all wearin' thin... Evokes the horrible ages of hanging, frozen in death-agony, from the Tree. Quote Evil are the demons that haunt you, Forgetting what it was that they taught you. And now there's no one left to stop you, Or to catch you when you drop. This suggests both a seemingly inevitable and yet perplexing descent into crime and the final, hideous, endless fall when the ladder is kicked away. Many thanks indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonCheadle Posted July 7, 2018 Report Share Posted July 7, 2018 I enjoy putting on this one when my Shadow Emissary uses his Destined condition to give focus to my team. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXUMB19WkT8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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