Music - MYP 4 and 5 - Samuel Wright - Hodder 2020

Game score mission
‘Owlboy’
Listen to the track ‘Main Title’ on the playlist and in your
portfolio create a mind-map of which instruments you
‘Owlboy’ is a platform-adventure video game released
in 2016 by D-Pad Studio with 8-bit styled graphics. The
think would work best playing the melody, and which
would work best playing the bass line. Can you also
composer, Jonathan Geer, creates an incredible world
through orchestration: of both traditional instruments and
identify the instruments Geer has chosen?
here means Geer has chosen
synthesisers.
Note: Geer has used a vital orchestration technique called
Orchestration
which instruments play depending on how clearly they will
doubling, where he gives the melody to multiple instruments
so that it is heard more clearly above the ensemble.
communicate their parts in the ensemble.
Figure 7.17 ‘Owlboy’ ‘Main Title’ melody and harmony in 2 phrases
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Music exploration: Adaptive gameplay
Remember the intro–loop–transition structure for writing
game scores? The next level up from this idea is to see it
in 3D. Imagine you are exploring a ‘village’ and entering
several houses to purchase items. The music needs to
sound similar for each house, but still maintain structural
unity for the ‘village loop’. This means different layers of
this loop need to be composed, and the game will trigger
each layer as it adapts to the player’s choices.
You could easily create a loop in GarageBand or
SoundTrap, but mute and unmute different layers or
sound effects to get this idea of adaptive playback. Create
a ‘village loop’ and try it yourself.
Figure 7.18 2D then 3D game scoring model
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