Give Me Your Soundtracks!

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I know I can't be the only one out there who soundtracks for her stories and characters. If Youtube is anything to go by, people see music videos for everything. I am constantly on the hunt for new music, because music opens up creative doors for my process. I see things for my characters and story that I could not otherwise do on my own. Movies and books provide  inspiration, but music is in a class all its own.
In celebration of that, I invite my watchers and fellow writing enthusiasts to try a creative exercise: offer up the soundtrack to your own writing. You never know, you might just give someone else the perfect song to complete their own soundtrack's story. It's my hope that people will post a musical narrative that evokes the journey of their characters and story.
Creativity on DeviantArt is far too often seen as a commodity, something to be selfishly hoarded instead of shared. The best sort of creativity is the kind that inspires.
In the spirit of that, since it's the holidays and all, let inspiration ring.
Check out the comments, take a listen, and be sure to leave comments for other people if they leave a song that you like. Especially if it sparks your interest in their story.
I'm not one to be left out,  so I will kick things off by offering the first fifteen songs from my dinosaur novel Mark of the Conifer:

1. The Beginning - Two Steps From Hell - Unfolding Armies www.youtube.com/watch?v=79eFPo…
2. Sunstrike's Clan - Two Steps From Hell - Adventures of Enchantment www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlARmS…
3. Sol's Theme - Immediate Music - Serenata Immortale
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pOtOB…
4. Song of the Sauris - Corner Stone Cues - Madokara Mieru www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIu8rI…
5. Song of the Droemar - E.S. Posthumus - Arise
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJWgUU…
6. Song of the Hadrei - Chouwa Oto - With Reflection www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoJ9dT…
7. Song of the Theros - Corner Stone Cues - Ten Years Kashmir (Film Percussion Mix) www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAbQMN…
8. Leaf's Escape - Two Steps From Hell - Black Blade www.youtube.com/watch?v=z28lwy…
9. The Sea Gods - Two Steps From Hell - Atlantis www.youtube.com/watch?v=apjjwi…
10. Facing the Fire - Two Steps From Hell - To Glory www.youtube.com/watch?v=abjE9Q…
11. Courtship - E.S Posthumus - Manju www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk3GRK…
12. At the End - Two Steps From Hell - Crimson Death www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq3soY…
13. Legend - E.S Posthumus - Oraanu Pi www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcCmti…
14. Told In Stone - Switchfoot - The Shadows Prove The Sunshine www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDM2QR…
15. The Pact - Angels And Airwaves- The Gift
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4kMkv…
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DasTenna's avatar
I almost forgot about classical music like the Carmina Burana by Carl Orff: [link]
"Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" is the perfect theme for the Expiration of the Universe in my Space Opera. This powerful melody makes me imagine how Kaeli appears in the skies like the crucified Jesus, bleeding from wounds in her wrists, feet and side, how blood falls like rain, how the Messengers of the Might appear shortly after Kaeli one after another on every world and rip them apart bit by bit, how meteors fall in hundreds, how Kaeli or Meni float near a sun and use its flames to wipe out every planet in a system.