Ravenloft music: the softer side

[Dominique]

I have a CD of Benedictine monks singing in Latin for any scenes that heavily involve the church of Ezra. It's absolutely indispensible. I also pull out the main "hero" theme from the Unbreakable soundtrack for triumphant moments, especially bittersweet ones (it was Van Richten's theme when I ran Bleak House).

[JinnTolser]

They get mentioned in any Ravenloft discussion.. but to my mind, Cradle of Filth is an excelelnt 'Loft group, particularly their instrumental pieces.

I usually mention them and Dimmu Borgir for the same reason (the instrumentals), but somebody always yells at me or misunderstands me to be suggesting black metal for D&D music, something I'm really not too keen on.

[ballsetto]

I will be using black metal for my Ravenloft game because that is music that me and the players love (I have a metal band with one of the guys, and another one bartends and dj's at a popular metal night in town) I think the instrumental track would be ok, although some of the bands really churn out the boring cliche's for those tracks. I'd just assuming throwing in some crazytracks w/vocals for odd times in the adventure or before/after and downtime of the session and stick to good classical romantic 20th century and flim score music for the rest

[Ail]

I made my own once for a powers check scene. It was all on strings and in very low octaves, slow and oppressing. the players liked it. Unfortunately, my piano lost memory of it (it is a digital piano) when I went for more than a month without re-hearing it.

Bar that, I'd recomend two movements from Beethoven's symphonies for the aftermath of some cruel happening: 3rd symphony's 2nd movement (the most suited for me, but you shouldn't play it completely) and the 2nd movement of the 7th symphony (very beautiful, very tragic but perhaps too known).

Can't think of anything else for now.

Hope that helps.

Ail