A companion piece to last installment’s aerial adventure music, this week’s selection continues the spirit of high-energy derring-do and takes it up a notch. Almost a medley, this cue presents a fast-paced succession of themes and melodic fragments that intercut and play off one another.   (An alternate title might be “how to make your brass players’ lips bleed”.)

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	Dogfight In The Skies

A component of my score for the video game Jane’s Attack Squadron, this week’s selection is fast-paced orchestral adventure music with some thematic motifs dropped in hither and yon. It’s meant to evoke the derring-do of old World War 2 films, as well as the breakneck rush of flying a bomber into a dogfight. (Or so I’ve heard. Haven’t tried it myself!)

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	Patrolling The Skies

This was music for a fun character: a slow-talking cowboy bass player with a magnetic charm. I wrote a theme for electric bass, using glisses and other effects to translate the character’s laid-back personality into musical terms. A garnish of slide guitar and snapping fingers helped complete the picture of cowboy cool. Bass and guitar performances by the multi-talented Tom Strahle.

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	Lou

This week’s selection is a lyrical, Far Eastern-flavored theme in two parts: an optimistic opening for strings and Korean daegum flute, followed by a more mournful passage for English horn. Though harmonized in a traditional Western style, the music makes use of a pentatonic (a.k.a. “black keys on the piano”) scale often associated with folk music of Pacific Rim countries.

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	Dusk in Ancient Koryo