Grim developments

Tracks with a distinct world music influence

These tracks use vocals as a textural element

The tracks evoke a more majestic tone

With clear shifts in dynamic and tone, these are built to carry a story from beginning to end.

Good for quickly establishing a specific sense of place

Getting Things Done

Good for penultimate scenes, where your protagonist reflects on his or her journey through the story

Problem solvers

Lush and sparse

These create the illusion of movement in scenes that are necessary but not pivotal to the story

Melodic themes, often expressed by piano and strings

Evoke an unasy but not entirely ominous feeling

Sounds of Winter

Heavier things

Delicate and wonderous but self-confident

Tough, determined, gritty

Two tracks uniquely classifiable as Epilogues

Originaly written for a docuseries about wounded veterans

Acoustic guitars, pedal steel, pick-up trucks

The Ends

Good openers

Expository and evaluative