Welcome to the latest Diary entry ever, as it had never happened that I upload one of these a full month later than I intended to. As the title says, it doesn’t matter what we have planned, life finds a way to get in the way. I had intended for 2023 to be the year when I step on the gas an write new music as never before but the absolute opposite of that seems to be true so far. In my defense, I do have some good reasons for being away from my piano, like buying, renovating, and moving into a property that is in a different city while also planning the arrival of a new heir of my own house makes it for very little time for anything else, and it’s not even over yet. There is still a lot of going back and forth between the old place and the new one to take part in the renovation, packing boxes, going to doctor’s appointments, and up until this week having to go to an office to do some actual work.
Keeps of Westeros
Having not posted anything left quite a bad taste in my mouth so even if I haven’t even sat down at the piano for the past couple of months (and probably won’t be able to do so for the next 2 or 3) I want to keep uploading some more music every month as I have done for the past 3 years. I had in mind uploading the leitmotifs for each and every one of the keeps of the major houses of Westeros last month but I never got around to it. I wish I had all of the renders and accompanying images for the themes but alas I couldn’t get around to finishing them before I to simply put the idea in the back burner where it stayed simmering ever since.
Instead of uploading them all at once something tells me it would be better to pace myself and spread them over time. So here is the leitmotif for the Red Keep of King’s Landing, a simple rising interval that I’m very satisfied with, evoking the grandeur power of House Targaryen and it’s founder Aegon the Conqueror.
That is all until next month, when I will (hopefully) upload more leitmotifs of keeps belonging to the great houses of Westeros. See you then!
Music of Ice and Fire 