The Circle Sound Score By: Justin Maribito. Introduction: This is a string of songs mixed together, meant to be programmatic to the circle. It could be.

The Circle Sound Score

By: Justin Maribito

Introduction:

This is a string of songs mixed together, meant to be programmatic to the circle. It could be seen as what the background music would be throughout the entire book

ExplanationMusic Therapy: a new study about how music’s emotional power can be used on humans

*Music has the ability to change a person’s mood based on its speed, rhythms, key, notes, and chords

Tendancy rules: These are rules of music that, while they aren’t always true, tend to be true.

Doctrine of affections: Music creates the 3 following sets of contrasting emotions:

*Love/Hate *Joy/sorrow *Wonder/Desire

ExplanationThree simple rules:

1. Faster music/more percussive music creates more aggression, where slower/less percussive music reduces aggression

2. Consonant music (resolved music) creates more resolved moods, such as pure joy/pure sorrow, where dissonant music (unresolved) creates more unresolved moods, such as wonder/desire

3. Songs that are major sound happy and create positive moods, and songs that are major sound sad and create negative moods

Example 1: the Jaws theme creates suspense because it’s music scale is dissonant making it unresolved, and it has a minor key which creates negative feelings.

*one thing I personally think is that songs with less lyrics/vocals and more electronic sounds feel less personal and more “transparent”. So, the more electronic a song is, the more transparent the mood in the book is

1. Mae shows up to the Circle

(Jaws Theme) Slow, lack of drums, suspenseful

2. Mae tours the Circle with Annie, sees the Wise Men’s portrait

(Dare You to Move: Switchfoot) Excitement, joy

3. Mae goes to a party with Annie and meets Francis

(Dare you: Hardwell) Pumped, excited, transparent

4. Mae begins working in customer service

(21 Questions: 50 Cent) Confusing, Stressful, Focused

5. Mae meets Kalden

(Godfather Theme) Mysterious, a sense of impending doom

6. Mae visits her parents/Mercer for the first time

(Team: Lorde) Bittersweet, but lack of transparency

7. Mae begins a relationship with Francis

(Alive With The Glory Of Love: Say Anything) Transparent and awkward

8. Mae goes to Bailey’s announcement; he unveils SeeChange

(Requiem for a Dream) Exciting, dramatic

9. Mae ends relationship with Francis, begins relationship with Kalden

(Godfather Theme) Mysterious, impending doom

10. Politicians go transparent

(Godfather Theme) Scary, Doubtful, Aggressive

11. Mae visits family again

(Team: Lorde) Bitter, more lack of transparency

12. Mae goes kayaking after dark, gets caught by SeeChange

(Jaws Theme) Scary and suspenseful

13. Mae goes on stage with Bailey and goes transparent

(O Fortuna) Dramatic, climactic, scary

14. Kalden warns Mae that the Circle must be stopped

(Godfather Theme) Scary, Depressing, Sorrow

15. Mae visits family/Mercer, they no longer like the circle, reject transparency

(Team: Lorde VS Emergency: Steve Aoki) Bitter, Depressing, but transparent

16. Mae comes up with idea for it to be mandatory for people to have a Circle

account

(Emergency: Steve Aoki) Transparent, out of control

17. Annie takes part in an experiment to figure out origins, as disturbing facts are

revealed she slips into a coma

(The Unwinding Cable Car: Anberlin) Sorrow, remorseful, apologetic

18. Mae shows the power of the circle by finding a criminal in hiding, followed by

Mercer, who dies trying to escape

(The Unwinding Cable Car: Anberlin) Sorrow, regret

19. Kalden reveals himself as Ty, and warns Mae of the totalitarian regime that the

Circle is creating

(O Fortuna) Suspenseful, Dramatic, Climactic

20. Mae warns the other founders about Ty and they silence him, as the regime

continues

(Navras: Juno Reactor VS Don Davis) Antagonizing, angry, tragic, transparent