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Hey everybody! I’m videogame composer Winifred Phillips, and in the course of my career I’ve had the pleasure and privilege of composing music for many famous and celebrated game franchises. In this article series, I’ve been sharing my creative process in the music composition for the original soundtrack of the bestselling video game Assassin’s Creed Liberation. In part one, we pondered how cultural influences within a game’s narrative can inform our work as game composers. In part two we expanded that discussion to embrace emotionally-evocative locations, rich with history and ambience. In part three, we began thinking about the role of music as a language of symbology, with melodies representing concepts and ideas that are important to the story. If you’d like to catch up on the previous three articles, you can find them here:
- Cultural Fusion: The Music of Assassin’s Creed Liberation
- Time and Place: The Music of Assassin’s Creed Liberation
- Melodies as Symbols: The Music of Assassin’s Creed Liberation
A symbolic melody in a musical composition is often called a leitmotif. In this article, we’ll be exploring this idea further in the context of the music I composed for Assassin’s Creed Liberation, an awesome video game from the ever-popular Assassin’s Creed franchise.