This week’s selection is a dramatic orchestral crescendo for the antagonist in The Penguin Who Wouldn’t Swim. (To be fair, the whale was just hungry.)

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	The Killer Whale

Here’s another cue from The Penguin Who Wouldn’t Swim – actually one of my composites, where I sneakily edit together multiple cues in order to make them seem like one long, more-interesting cue. This music accompanies the game’s dramatic finale.

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	Ice Floe Finale

This week’s cue is a tense (in a storybook sort of way) orchestral passage from a project fairy early in my career, The Penguin Who Wouldn’t Swim. The music accompanies an episode where the titular penguin has been swept out to sea on a stray block of ice.

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	The Tension Mounts

My penchant for underdog instruments comes out in this lyrical-then-rather-violent suspense cue from a short film by David Kiang. The melody is given to an alto flute, typically a low-playing instrument, in its uppermost register. This creates a distinct pale and haunting tone, notably different from the pretty sound of a “regular” C flute.

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	Shauna

There’s an unspoken rule that all fantasy battle music must include the sound of an anvil. Who am I to defy tradition?

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	Honor and Steel