The house covered snow (instrumental)

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The house covered snow (instrumental)

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Hello, LinuxMusicians!

Winter in the yard, but in Rosegarden - eternal summer :D
"The house covered snow" - humble instrumental composition which was inspired the book "The Magic Winter in the Moomin-Valley" by Finnish writer Tove Jansson.

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Curious piece. Somewhat sad, almost depressive. Instrumentation fits the theme well.
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A very nice piece. The instrumentation at times are like flowers blooming out of the snow. I would only say that the piano is perhaps a bit too bright in its transient attack. But then it reminds of a toy piano.

Now if I may, for the convenience of other listeners who might like to have just a bit of background, I will put a summary of the story that inspired the piece, from Wikipedia. Maybe the music is one of the mysterious songs...

"While the rest of the Moomin family are in the deep slumber of their winter hibernation, Moomintroll finds himself awake and unable to get back to sleep.

He discovers a world hitherto unknown to him, where the sun does not rise and the ground is covered with cold, white, wet powder.

Moomintroll is lonely at first but soon meets Too-ticky, a wise spirit who sings mysterious songs, and his old friend Little My (who takes delight in sledging down the snowy hills on Moominmamma's silver tea tray).

The friends build a snow horse for the Lady Of The Cold and mourn the passing of an absent-minded squirrel who gazed into the Lady's eyes and froze to death. However, a squirrel is spotted alive by Moomintroll at the end of the book, and it seems that it may have come back to life.

As the haunting winter progresses, many characters (notably the Groke, Sorry-oo the small dog, and a boisterous skiing Hemulen) come to Moominvalley in search of warmth, shelter and Moominmamma's stores of jam. "
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Folderol, thanks for perception and feedback!

Jonetsu, thanks for the detailed comment and quotes from beautiful book!

Winter stories about Moomins in episodes 22, 23, 24:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGYQvJQjO84

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfASXAkcKiI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWsXiRNrNEc

cheers! :wink:
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Really great work, thanks for sharing!

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Hi,

A very impressive composition! Very well arranged with the interplay and counterpoint between the piano and strings. This is one of the best examples of orchestral-style MIDI programming with Linux I have ever heard. Can you share what instruments you used for the sounds?
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Post by lilith »

Great track! Sounds somehow russian to me and reminds me a bit of MARC ALMOND (e.g. the HEART OF SNOW album).
The flute sounds a bit too trashy for my taste and maybe I would add some more reverb here and there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naipy-54foY
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Tavasti, thanks you! :)

GMaq, gratitude! With the update to Ubuntu 18.04, I lost Linuxsampler (impossible to install for me), and accordingly I can't use weighty orchestral samples in gig and sfz :( So I went back to the old good soundfont, for the composition I dug up instruments in this pile (which ones I don't remember exactly) - https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1200140

lilith, thanks for commentary!

In memory of the passing winter, I edited the video-sketches voiced by this music :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGESwW0GIxA

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