MUSIC DIRECTOR REACTS | Baldur's Gate Main Theme - 3rd Movement

a few weeks ago I did a video reviewing the main theme for Baldur's Gate 3 well at least the first two movements because for whatever reason the video I used for the reaction did not have the third movement I don't know why it's kind of weird to be honest I think I even said something during the videos like is there more there's not more okay well whatever so we finished that not knowing but you all left me enough comments he left me some links so we're finally gonna hear the third movement to the Baldur's Gate main theme I'm very excited let's go [Music] so good Oh What a Beautiful Motif I really like at the end there um after that that note's being held we have this Cascadian string descending line that just credentially resolves us that is some gorgeous writing let's just grab that part again just check out the strings here well it might have been a little wooden with it too as well [Music] hmm oh beautiful we have uh two oboes at least it sounds like two of us in a feature and a little bit of clarinet there right at the end in a course against our harp just laying of a delicate little Groove here with arpeggios and um the bass string bass is very very low Dynamic very very long oh I feel like boom it jumps up and comes back here not much going on base wise but it's it doesn't matter it's very very perfect and just painting uh soft delicate approaches here here we go back about four seconds oh yeah [Music] oh yes that gave me tingles that section okay so we come in familiar material we're quoting same Motif it's augmented though because we have some conversation happening between our Woodwinds and now the strings are kind of uh just kind of going back and forth with it almost contrapping with the with how the melody is laying there but at the end it feels like a piccolo has a really cool run and then it ends with Glockenspiel Mallet uh Mallet percussion hard mallets that's just exceptional writing let's just go back about let's that's 114. let's just check about 30 seconds ish foreign so good [Music] foreign [Music] wow okay the first use of staccato notes we're getting from the trumpet section there's a very attractive nice ascending horn line in there and man we had a little bit of timpani before on that transitional swell on this one we had quite a bit more very very effective it's a lot of fun for the player to have those parts to be so important as you move chunk to chunk let's just go back and appreciate this uh this section here of the brass nice writing that is not back far enough let's make sure we get into it here we go here comes our Bells ready [Music] I want to say all the previous um components we had where we had the call and response and just harmonically we're all we're laying very thick within like where we're functioning but there's all those instrument voices talking to each other it's still happening here just thickened up a little bit the recipe keeps getting better and better back about six seconds foreign coming beautiful [Music] Jesus that is good writing did you hear how we take with the offbeat it feels like the Chimes are on the offbeat and then we go deceptively into a different chord and then we resolve and I'm not totally sure it feels like we pushed to a different key I'm not positive on that the point is credentially the Cadence of how the cores are resolving that was so freaking clever though that is outstanding writing we have to go back man this is so cool dude I'm telling you let's just go back and appreciate all that again because that is freaking gorgeous foreign foreign [Music] piano it kind of it's not it almost felt like a metal Forte piano it builds we have another core build but then it leads into the boombox that is so great let's get that part again that's right it's 149 let's go back about 11 seconds let's grab that [Music] gorgeous I was wrong about the Chimes the Chimes are on the downbeat it's the rest of the Ensemble uh having the conversation back with that let's just grab that so sorry about that my apologies [Music] foreign [Music] runs happening but yet we're still I'm not singing it right sorry about that I'm completely out of context here uh I suck his thingy anyway the point is this Motif this theme it keeps getting elaborate and we're just like dumping like if this if this Lacroix here is the ingredients of Music we started like right here it was still gorgeous down here but we keep adding they keep adding things and it just it's quote it's quoting and it's familiar material but it just sounds so good the whole time now for those of you that are like you know you're just watching videos because you like to like listen to someone talk about music you need to understand this is not easy to do you can't just like sit down and scores like anybody with like basic training you learn you you find out what key the pieces in you learn the melody you learn how to like support it harmonically like meaning like how the chord progression Works What notes you can do with that cool like everybody can you study a little bit everyone can do that what everyone can't do is or orchestrate it make an arrangement put the notes put the ink on the page to be so charismatic in pulling the way this happens because it's more complicated than that that's that's the human side that is the art that is why man sorry I'm not going to tangent I promise I won't tangent but this is why I'm such an advocate for real musicians real composers knowing what they're doing and just understanding how to create such like art for your ear and your soul man like this oh God it's just so freaking good let's go back I don't know a little bit then we'll let it go sorry I know we get we get distracted it is what it is [Music] got the choir oh God [Music] we can't I can't leave it with that we got to talk about it so I forgot about the choir the elements of The Voice have been waiting that whole time to sing they finally come in it's a climactic point it's very Monumental and then we still we still play with the chords a little bit and travel a couple of other destinations before we resolve back into we can hear things are starting to move down we have our arpeggios descending the uh the the the force starting to pull away and we're going to resolve this piece I just need to experience it one more time I promise I'll let it play out this time I promise all right what's that Baseline [Music] foreign [Music] maybe that was clearing out to oboe either way the woodwinds bring us back with little just little beautiful pulls from the strings my God man that's just uh compositional Gene oh Gene video 2023 the stuff needs to be everywhere like this is so great it's so legit man that I don't know all right we tangented it we talked we love it let me know what you think down in the comments below I'm finally glad to hear the third movement because man it feels so incomplete now I listened to the first two before I recorded this video because I'm almost like I want to get back and excuse me back in the headspace so I'm glad I did that man that was that was real nice

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Length: 11min 31sec (691 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 27 2023