Ficial Metro Last Light Soundtrack - 1493 Words

The official Metro: Last Light soundtrack was composed by Ukraine composer Alexey Omelchuk. Omelchuk is famous for composing music for video games such as Alexander, Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars, Heroes of Annihilated Empires, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Metro 2033 and most recently Metro: Last Light. He was working with GSC Game World, and after the company was dissolved in 2011, he went to worked one of its successor 4A Games. The original soundtrack for Metro: Last Light with 64 tracks, more that 2 and a half hour of music was released by Sumthing Else Music Works in 2013. The majority of the music is orchestral-based with electronic elements, as well as dark ambient, electro rock (These tracks†¦show more content†¦So the music is trying to mimic this, with a lots of metaphor, and parallel ideas. For instance one of the main instrument the composer uses the most, is the acoustic/electronic guitar (the main/solo instrument of the main theme is the guitar as well), as the guitar is the most important thing of the people in the Metro (we could see a lot of guitar in the Metro game s spiritual successor the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, the guitar soon became the symbol of hope, in both series.) In term of melody, the whole soundtrack offers us, a big selection of different melodies, which are heavily influenced by the main theme. We can put it that way, most of the track, are heavily influenced by the main theme, making a huge idà ©e fixe motif-chain. The idà ©e fixe , is a leitmotif kind of thing, but also very different from it. The leitmotif was basically invented by Richard Wagner (1813- 1883) during the composition of The Ring tetralogy, as he was using motifs for every person, object, feeling creating a huge composition of melodies connected to each other, under the concept of the Endless Melody (This concept was invented by Wagner during the composition of Tannhà ¤user , the basic idea was to create a new opera-standard, not using the aria-recitativo, structure, instead there are no dividing line at each area,