15 Jul
2025
15 Jul
'25
9:38 a.m.
This month's theme is "angry music" and the time limit is 4 minutes.
My entry is a cover... of Ride Of The Valkyries (and you don't get much angrier
than those!) I started with a couple of free on-line MIDI files, but wasn't
happy with either of them, so took the best one, then modified it with bits of
the other one, along with comparative listening to actual recordings (no two of
these were even mostly similar), finally getting creative with my own ideas.
It's all Yoshimi... instrument patches in no particular order:
Synth Strings * 2
Full Strings
Wet Brass
Wet Brass2
Prophesy
Post Horn
Clarinet
Yet Another Flute
{percussion}
Crash Full 2
Hugh's Kit
Slow Cymbal (created just for this)
Ride Crash
Soft Kick
You can find it here (it won't stay there much after this month)
http://www.musically.me.uk/Misc/2507_folderol_Ride_Of_The_Valkyries.mp3
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15 Jul
15 Jul
11:42 a.m.
On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 08:38:51AM +0100, Will Godfrey wrote:
Ride Of The Valkyries (and you don't get much
angrier than those!)
Nice work as usual !
But there is no anger in the action or lyrics of Wagner's opera
at this point. The Valkyries assemble on a mountain top, preparing
to bring fallen heros to Valhalla. But they have a problem: one of
them is pregnant and they fear that this may not please Wotan at
all. Which turns out to be the case.
'Excitement' would probably be a better description of what
the Ride expresses. The popular association with anger and
agression is probably the result of the way this music was
used in 'Apocalypse Now'.
Real anger you''ll find in Mozart's 'Queen of the Night' aria:
Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen !
Hell's vengeance boils in my heart !
Ciao,
--
FA
11:55 a.m.
Fons Adriaensen <fons(a)linuxaudio.org> writes:
On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 08:38:51AM +0100, Will Godfrey
wrote:
1979. Use in "Blues Brothers" 1980. Use in "Rescue on Fractulus"
1984.
Certainly had a bit of a renaissance after Coppola used it in
"Apocalypse Now".
--
David Kastrup
Ride Of The Valkyries (and you don't get much
angrier than those!)
Nice work as usual !
But there is no anger in the action or lyrics of Wagner's opera
at this point. The Valkyries assemble on a mountain top, preparing
to bring fallen heros to Valhalla. But they have a problem: one of
them is pregnant and they fear that this may not please Wotan at
all. Which turns out to be the case.
'Excitement' would probably be a better description of what
the Ride expresses. The popular association with anger and
agression is probably the result of the way this music was
used in 'Apocalypse Now'. 
11:08 p.m.
On 15/07/2025 11:42, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 08:38:51AM +0100, Will Godfrey
wrote:
Yes nice version, well done Will!
[...]>
Ride Of The Valkyries (and you don't get much
angrier than those!)
Nice work as usual ! Real anger you''ll find in Mozart's
'Queen of the Night' aria:
Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen !
Hell's vengeance boils in my heart !
Or lyrics in certain Roman folk songs
(Roman as in traditional songs
from the city of Rome, in local Roman 'dialect'):
Te possino dà tante cortellate
Pe quante messe ha dette l'arciprete
[...]
Er bene che te vojo nun lo dico
Te vorebbe vede' a Ponte impiccato
Lorenzo
11:19 p.m.
Hi Will,
this is just great! And I don't even like Wagner much. A very good selection
of sounds. the clarinet in the intro might have sounded even better if it had
been monophonic, but I suppose that wasn't really possible. Being me, I also
wouldn't have minded a little more oomph at the bottom end. You kick drum was
good and the crashes all sound really, really good!
Many thanks for sharing this!
Best wishes,
Jeanette
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16 Jul
16 Jul
1 a.m.
I'm always impressed with what your music does with Yoshimi. When I use
it, I always just open it up and try out some presets, but there are
some nice sounds with it. I really enjoyed the run at the end, that was
very tasty. It reminded me a lot of Garth Hudson and some of the cool
synth things he would do with The Band. In fact, now that I think about
it, a lot of the sounds of this piece really remind me of Garth Hudson's
The Band patches.
I really want to participate in another KVR Music Cafe Contest again. I
need to get on that, maybe after the end of the this month!
Thanks for sharing!,
Brandon Hale
On 7/15/25 03:38, Will Godfrey wrote:
This month's theme is "angry music" and
the time limit is 4 minutes.
My entry is a cover... of Ride Of The Valkyries (and you don't get much angrier
than those!) I started with a couple of free on-line MIDI files, but wasn't
happy with either of them, so took the best one, then modified it with bits of
the other one, along with comparative listening to actual recordings (no two of
these were even mostly similar), finally getting creative with my own ideas.
It's all Yoshimi... instrument patches in no particular order:
Synth Strings * 2
Full Strings
Wet Brass
Wet Brass2
Prophesy
Post Horn
Clarinet
Yet Another Flute
{percussion}
Crash Full 2
Hugh's Kit
Slow Cymbal (created just for this)
Ride Crash
Soft Kick
You can find it here (it won't stay there much after this month)
http://www.musically.me.uk/Misc/2507_folderol_Ride_Of_The_Valkyries.mp3
1:40 p.m.
Thanks everyone for you comments :)
For a while I've been going through a 'dry' time for original music ideas, so
have started to play with MIDI files to keep my hand in so-to-speak.
@ Fons I didn't know the story in the opera and you're right it was the
'Apocalypse' that I had in mind.
@ Jeanny The score shows multiple clarinets, so that's what I (effectively) went
with.
Incidentally, the reason I had two copies of Synth Strings is that the
descending glissando sections consist of dozens of overlapping notes. Yoshimi
can have up to 60 sounding notes per part and this was being exceeded, so the
answer was to alternately run two identical instruments.
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