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Occasional Sage
2011-03-03, 10:57 PM
I am about to run my first game of Mouse Guard (http://www.mouseguard.net/), and I guess the thread title says it all.

Perpetual underdogs, using teamwork and heart to confront giant predators, Mother Nature, and intrigue: what's the soundtrack?

Mando Knight
2011-03-03, 11:09 PM
This. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXqIYx0CgH8) Because it goes with everything (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/guiles-theme-goes-with-everything).

Totally Guy
2011-03-04, 02:15 AM
I have run Mouse Guard using the the sound tracks from Lost. I made 5 or 6 playlists for different emotions or threats then gave them to the most musically inclined player and told him to play the right ones at the right situations. It worked fairly well.

Radar
2011-03-04, 09:56 AM
General close-to-nature and somewhat mystical (which also entail a hint of unknown danger) feel can be achived with works of Clannad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Qo4vxXpC8) or Loreena (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt2r2rUHc7Q) McKennitt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWvG2fLSypY&feature=related).
In the same vain Riverdance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bQnF4QVruw) or score from Lord of the Dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQmBHHvmrD4&feature=related) might be relevant.

Something from El Cazador de la Bruja might be an interesting choice: 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHyTufTJ2r4&feature=related), 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=737EBPdNSTU&feature=related), 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJsjxQ6V7Is&feature=related).

Totally Guy
2011-03-04, 12:04 PM
You know I'm pretty sure I've been in this conversation before....


I wonder if a mouse could get any decent sound out of a stringed instrument which is mouse-sized, so I imagine music which favors percussion and maybe some wind instruments. Of course, music is only allowed in the safety of towns because making any unnecessary noise in the wilderness just attracts predators.


You can, but it will be outside human hearing range. 12" string is the basis for violins; 6" is an octave higher, 3" two higher, 1.5" 3 higher, and 3/4" 4 higher. So a mouse sized cello would be 3 octaves above a violin (instead of 1.5 down for 36" string length). The volume would be thin, as well, but could be taken up by using a full length or even 1.5 or 2x length resonance box instead of 3/4 length.

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A violin has a 3-4 octave range, depending upon performer skill...

Note that a soprano recorder is also a 12" instrument, and for a mouse, would need to be 0.75"
Halving the working length of an instrument raises by an octave. For tube based, capping an end effectively doubles length if that end is opposite the turbulence. Volume is a direct function of amount of air moved.

Peak performance Human hearing is 12 Hz to 40kHz, typically not much above 20kHz with many not really hearing above 12kHz or 16kHz; peak performance mouse range is 1kHz to 90kHz.
A Violin is about 200Hz to 1760hz, with a nominal performance range of 300 to 1200Hz
A viol 3 octaves higher runs 1600-14000, nominal 2400 to 9600. The highest end is beyond many people's hearing.
adding another octave (and making it in scale a violin) gives 3200-28000, nominally 4800 to 20000... well into the range most humans can't hear in it's upper octaves.

A 6" garkelein recorder is roughly 1000hz to 4000hz; taking it to mouse scaled soprano of 0.75" is 3 octaves... 8000-32000Hz; the mouse garkelein would be twice that... and well outside most people's hearing.

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I'm writing a mousey bit of music. I'll post it when I get it finished (it'll be a zipped MP3 due to requirements of my ISP...)
The upper octave of a mouse-cello is painfully high; the mouse-violin is in dog whistle range.

I'm thinking mouse-cello, mouse-violin, and mouse recorder in trio... added a glock.

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Hostman Op. Nr.4 at http://aramis.hostman.us/mg/MouseyMusic.zip (incomplete, but there). peak note is A=14080 or so.

Ouch! My poor ears!

Occasional Sage
2011-03-04, 11:18 PM
Shiny, thanks!