Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 2

[Zgroktar]

This song is excellent in its own right regardless does it fit the AAMFP theme or not, and I fail to see the reasons why anyone would think differently.

To name a few: It's completely stagnant (it has no sense of beginning or end or progression), the orchestration is imbalanced (you can't even hear what most of the instruments are doing), there is a complete lack of any strong thematic material, the harmonic textures are extremely boring, there is no subtlety in any regard whatsoever, the list goes on. And this has nothing to do with how it "fits" with AAMFP, these are technical issues that have to do with the music itself.

Wrong. It does have clearly defined beginning, progression and even and the ending, and there is anything wrong with the orchestration in itself I can easily hear ''what the the instruments are doing''. I might say your way of dissecting the song and analyzing its bits is quite boring and pointless and does not change the fact that this track is very effective on its own right and serves its purpose. It is very dark, unnerving, very morbid and only objections I can state are those that it didn't deliver everything it could have in that manner. I could agree that it doesn't have any subtlety, especially when we compare it with TDD OST, but in that aspect we will indeed need to wait and see how it blends with the game.

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I've been studying Latin for almost six years, I might try translating this Mors Praematura sometime.

It sounds great with the vocal part, in my opinion. I have no idea why people tend to reject music that sounds operatic. There are some pretty creepy/cool operas out there...

Oh for sure. People generally tend to dislike opera music for the same reason they dislike classical music in general: it's usually forced upon them. Apart from that, there is an unfortunately very long tradition of low quality Italian operas that have sort of become synonymous with opera in general. There definitely are some fantastic operas (I really like Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, which is unusual as far as operas go), but the style is generally not known for its high quality compositions.

I don't agree that people don't listen to classical music because it is forced upon them, that is simply the kind of music not so many people could appreciate. Considering operas, there are probably very silly ones, but that style does have indeed high quality compositions. Have you ever listened to Mozart's, Wagner's or Handel's operas? Or that one from Beethoven, which I personally didn't listen wholly, but did heard some excerpts.