Name: Shadow Woods - soundtrack
Duration: 5 min 15 s
Channel: Steve Mulhern
Description: License options are available for this song. Soundtrack to a childrens adventure story, each movement is a short example of some types of music commonly used in film scores.

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Soundtrack to a childrens adventure story, each movement is a short example of some types of music commonly used in film scores.

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Steve Mulhern

It's just me solo, on my own. I have been known to collaborate and record with others.

I enjoy creating music in a variety of genres such as pop, rock, jazz, classical style, big band and even some orchestral music. My recording set-up is fairly simple: a Mackie Spike USB soundcard with Traktion recording software. I use Sibelius software for score writing. My main instrument is guitar: I mainly use a Yamaha SG1000 and a Yamaha APX 9 nylon strung.

Song Info

Genre

Classical • Classical General

Charts

Peak #3

Peak in subgenre #1

Author

Steve Mulhern

Rights

Steve Mulhern

Uploaded

November 05, 2005

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.8 MB • 128 kbps • 5:15

Story behind the song

I created this as a soundtrack to accompany a short story for children called 'Adventure in Shadow Woods'. 
The piece is in five short 'movements':
1)Snow Fun (setting the scene - a winter landscape, music has dark undertones with thunder) 
2) Entering Shadow Woods (representing disorientation / anticipation / trepidation as the children enter the woods) 
3)Chasing Shadows (a chase scene!) 
4) Found at Last! (lost children are found by their parents - victorious / heraldic music) 
5) Safe and Sound (representing being safely back home - peaceful / gentle music with occasional reminders of the previous movements)

This piece was created using Sibelius score notation software, so it is in fact entirely in midi(with all it's limitations).
The process of converting midi to audio seems to compress the original sounds,so it is not as rich and full sounding as it should be for a full orchestral score.
(photo (c) Mel Green)