Category: Music
Rating:
The song is really nice. I like the composition very much. It's sweet and the melody is really calming.
But as the music was used in the "Twilight Movie" and as the title says it's "Bella's Lullaby". If it was a song separate from the movie I would have given it 5 tumbling babies...but since I have a different idea of what Bella's Lullaby really is based on the book I couldn't really accept that this music is Bella's Lullaby. The song itself is supposedly a lullaby...something to put you to sleep and while the music gives me a calming effect, it doesn't really calm me enough to put me to sleep or in a rest-like state.
The way the book describe the lullaby is very different from this song. This music is very simple with no added complications to the composition. And how the song ended is just so abrupt different from the book's description: "The song he was still playing, my song, drifted to an end, the final chords shifting to a more melancholy key. The last note hovered poignantly in the silence." In Midnight Sun, when Edward was composing the song it described how he composed it as such: "I began the first line of the tune that had suggested itself to me in the car today, pleased that it sounded even better than I imagined...I added a harmonizing line, letting the central melody weave through it...I let the melody lead in a new direction, following it with a bass line...The song was compelling, but incomplete. I toyed with a bridge, but it didn't seem right somehow...I got the bridge right then. It led easily to the next movement, taking on a life of its own...There was a story to this melody, and once I saw that, the pieces fell into place effortlessly...Alice left Jasper to his own devices and came to sit next to me on the bench. In her thrilling, wind chime voice, she sketched out a wordless descant two octaves above the melody...I added her line to the harmony, modifying it a bit, taking it in a new direction...I could see how the song must end, because the sleeping girl was perfect just the say she was, and any change at all would be wrong, a sadness. The song drifted toward that realization, slower and lower now. Alice's voice lowered too and became solemn, a tone that belonged under the echoing arches of a candlelit cathedral. I played the last note, and then bowed my head over the keys."
I keep repeating the song over and over but I couldn't put the description to the book with the one being played.
But like I said, it's a good melody and I like it very much but I would have appreciated the song better if they didn't use it as Bella's Lullaby.
NOTE: Excerpts taken from Twilight and the draft of Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer.
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