<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=1881.msg58138#msg58138">Quote from: WarDragon on 08-10-2005, 23:23:03</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Oh, almost forgot; James would definately have asked the Loremaster about the Empire's music.  Better to blend in, don't you know.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Sir James has had some small exposure to the Imperial music styles, though his adventures with incursions from the east into the westlands and in heretical groups that have needed rooting out.  There is a group in the West, considered heretical by some, who claim that much of the hymnal music of the Lord and Lady derives from more ancient musics from the Empire before it fell.  In James' opinion, he thinks it is just as likely that some eastern sources have been influenced by the complex but orderly cadences of proper religious music.  When easterners have been encountered in the wild, so to speak, their camp music is often raucous and heavily percussion-oriented, accompanied by wailing horns or voices.  Individual performers seek to rise out of the melodies and deviate on tangents of sound, before falling back into the music with their peers, and this rise and fall seems to be uncoordinated and as much a proof of the musicians power and talent as from a desire to make a better overall performance for the audience.