"Dark" Languages

Hi,

I am about to compose my first piece (or at least attempt to compose it..) and what I have in mind is something dark.
It's in a minor key and it needs to sound well, like Halloween. I went to Holiday World yesterday and I heard this one choral song and now I sorta made up my own and I can't get it outta my head, I just need a language to put it to that sounds really dark and evil.

any ideas?


thanks,

-Mathieu

In my opinion if you pick a dark text and set it right you can get this "dark sound"
I wouldnt say that there is one language that is just dark. A lot of people think german is ugly, but when sung i think german is a beautiful.

Instead of focusing on a dark language you should be focusing on what text you want to use.

Does this help?

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Scott.

By language i assume you mean 'tongues' as opposed to vocabulary? i know its hardly choral work but rammstein sing in german and it sounds quite dark, i think a harsh tongue like that would be best. Despite that tenor is right - any language can be beautiful or dark when sung well with the correct vocab.

Hope that helps :S

ferret,

If all you care about is that it "sounds" dark and evil, then make up words that sound dark and evil to you and set your piece to them. It's not really relevant what they're saying if all you care about is the sound. Rolled R's are cool, and a large male section of singers will enhance that dark effect.

Originally Posted by Marius

If all you care about is that it "sounds" dark and evil, then make up words that sound dark and evil to you and set your piece to them. It's not really relevant what they're saying if all you care about is the sound. Rolled R's are cool, and a large male section of singers will enhance that dark effect.

Yeah like some of the stuff from the lord of the rings

Okay, thanks
I know that John Williams used Sanskrit for the Phantom Menace song in star wars, but Like Tenor said any toungue would be able to sound dark. I guess I never realized that.

I feel good!

Swahili.

Originally Posted by firsty_ferret

Yeah like some of the stuff from the lord of the rings

which was not "made up" but rather were quotations in Tolkiens's own synthetic languages. MOST of the languages Tolkien devised for LotR are complete enough to express relatively basic ideas in a coherant fashion. Some of the languages are nearly complete enough to function in a day-to-day fashion. While a few are fragmentary at best. However, it's not the sort of thing I would call "made up sounds". There's a lot more to it than that.

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