Assassins Creed 4 Analysis

This week I started to play a game that I just bought, “Assassins Creed 4th”. When I played the game, I heard a melody which sounds very familiar; its name is the "dark slayer.” When its original version firstly appeared in the “Assassins Creed 1”, it was called “Ezios’ family.” It is not the main melody, but in every version of the game, this melody will appear in different forms. The success of the structure is directly related to the success and failure of music in the game.Since the music game is associated with the music expression of the film, it should follow the development of the plot and not stuck in the fixed frame mode. Both the flexibility of music and the basic characteristics of the curved structure cannot be completely separated.I feel that the composer of "assassin's creed 4" followed the above principles when they arranged the structure of “Ezio's family.” They were very flexible to make changes based on the specific requirements of the plot to achieve auditory communication better.

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For example, the fourth part, to highlight the difference between the original and the original, has added a large number of tremolo to describe a tense and agitated emotion;
The second is to change the speed, tempo, and tonality of the main melody. In "assassins creed4” "Ezios family" adaptation, the original eighth notes, " 2-4-5-2-4-5-5-4" are extended into the crotchets and became the second theme, hidden under the main melody composed of demisemiquaver notes;
The third way is to rewrite the main tone. There is a lot of original interpretation in "assassin's creed 4". The central theme is repeated in the form of cannon, played in classical instruments such as violin, and in music form and plot, it shows a kind of echo to the original