A Musical Note: "As One Tale Ends..."
Added 2018-08-15 02:30:38 +0000 UTCThis is the first of a series of short, publicly-available posts about particular pieces of music and their relevance to particular parts of my writing. Music is one of the keys to my writing. I write with music, generally instrumental, playing, and often create a soundtrack for any book I work on.
This piece, "As One Tale Ends..." is one of the last pieces on the soundtrack of The Forbidden Kingdom, a martial arts extravaganza featuring both Jackie Chan and Jet Li. The overall soundtrack itself is wonderful, and provided me with several pieces which -- appropriately -- I associated with the Arenaverse's Sun Wu Kung, the Monkey King.
This specific piece is the theme or key piece for the scene in Spheres of Influence in which Sun Wu Kung has been ejected from the Blessed vessel Thilomon and is plummeting through the endless sky of the Arena, with apparently no way back, having failed in his mission and now fated to die drifting unmarked, never to be found.
But slowly , as the music echoes, Wu gets a grip on his loss and failure, and regains his resolution to fight, to find a way to save Ariane even though it seems all is lost.
