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Here we go!

This piece fought me. The Heroine's theme wanted to be created and generally did not put up any resistance in the process, but this one was desperately trying to stop me from making it.

Nevertheless, here it is! STPlay's Chapter I theme!

#why do I continue to put in all the crescendos and decrescendos when I know Noteflight can't render them #maybe it's the principle of the thing #stplay #slay the princess #musings from the orchestra pit

lil guy :)

#stplay meek #stop the play #stplay

Stop the Play will resume in five days, on Tuesday, September 9. I'll be spending time until then preparing for the next installment (four backgrounds! How luxurious!) and getting back into the lore.

Once things are running again, I'll be updating three times a week instead of daily, on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays at 4pm UTC/noon EDT, to help keep a consistent schedule and give myself enough time to prepare art and writing ahead of posting time.

#benefits of a thrice-a-week schedule include:#—can wait for the polls to settle before preparing art and still have time to finish without staying up late #—little chance of losing my posting time again since posts can be scheduled a day in advance #—don't need to rush to finish writing before the post needs to go up (ditto)#—at least one day off a week and possibly as many as four #slay the princess #stplay

Been a long time getting around to these, but here we are, the dynamic duo:

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The three Veil tracks aren't quite a single song, but they certainly aren't three entirely separate songs. "Don't Turn Around" was the first of the three I composed—it took several days of half-starts and experimentations before I decided to grab the time to take out my own flute and riff off of "An Open Door" (The Cage III, at least I presume) for a bit. I think I wrote almost the entire duet that evening. You can kind of hear where I drew from the canon music at the beginning, and despite not really aiming for it, the first two Veil tracks ended up having the same section pattern as "An Open Door."

"The Veil" is, largely, "Don't Turn Around" with one fewer flute and much of the melody ripped out and replaced—only the main theme stuck around entirely intact. If you go back and listen to it, you can hear where, after listening to "Don't Turn Around," it's clearly half a duet rather than an independent solo.

"Eurydice" was the easiest of the three, as it's just the piano part of the other two, isolated and with as much reverb as Noteflight allows me. If you listen closely (and are good with pitch) you might be able to hear how the piano is shifting to align with a theme that is no longer playing...

Despite the name, "Eurydice" plays in two different situations. One is, of course, turning around at any point during your climb, but it also plays if you choose to slay the Veil instead of leaving with it.

#scheduling this ahead of time because I'm actually writing this up late on the 23rd #you can consider this a christmas gift if you like. I was going to post it at some point anyway but it's what I have to give #I really really like this whole trio of songs #three tracks two unique songs but they're all one unit #and they make a pretty neat duet #slay the princess #stplay #musings from the orchestra pit

Fun expression tomorrow

#but not as fun as the other addition to our cast. I love the designs for this chapter #which were definitely all planned out well in advance #stplay

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Back at it again

Styled similarly to "The Nightmare," but I tried to make it sound a little more tense and threatening. It's perhaps a bit hard to say to what degree I succeeded, but I think I'm happy with the result nonetheless.

Composed, as usual, in Noteflight.

#slay the princess #stplay #at this rate I'm going to need to have a tag for music #musings from the orchestra pit