This selection from the score of the film Against Time is one of my personal favorites, and features a lovely performance by the Budapest Film Orchestra.

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	The Treehouse

This week’s selection is a bouncy yet wistful mix of pitched percussion, flute, and upright bass.

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	The Aquarium

This short and impish piece of music is from the game Wizard Ops, and plays when you negotiate with a surly shopkeeper to buy an assortment of high tech sorcerous armaments. This “album cut” features a distinct ending, whereas in-game music is often truncated in order to be able to loop indefinitely.

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	Weapons Shop

This week’s music is actually a splice of two successive cues from the film Home Room. (Bonus points if you can discern where I made the edit.)

Most of the film is a dialogue between two principal characters, girls from opposite social castes who bond in the aftermath of a school shooting. Correspondingly, most of the music is scored for intimate instrumental combinations – piano, woodwind quartet, solo cello, and so on. We reserved the full string ensemble, such as in today’s piece, for the more significant dramatic moments.

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	Going Home

Keeping in step with the season, this week’s selection is my hyperactive arrangement of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. Thanks to Wikipedia, I learned all sorts of interesting things about this traditional carol. Did you know that Satan is prominently mentioned in the lyrics? This adds an element of drama which I feel is sorely lacking in most holiday songs.

I can’t post the arrangement directly, since it was commissioned by a music library and I don’t technically own it. But you can hear a chunk of it for free on Amazon via the link below.

No Rest For The Merry