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Can you please recommend some songs you identify as fantasy songs personally so I can study the chords and see why, or if you know a common chord progression in fantasy music can you post/comment it? thanks! P.S. - For anyone wondering where the rest of the content here went, I've been doing a lot of studying and putting this stuff together on my own. I'm going to formally type it up somewhere and share the link when it's more or less finalized so I can get critique. 👍 P.P.S. - If you've got some mysterious magical sounding fantasy progressions I'm open to reading what you have. Until I figure it out on my own, hahaha. EDIT/UPDATE: So here's the finished product! http://tiny.cc/gfcbykgl I'll make a post down below where I say a little about it.

Please, criticize the living s**t out of this. I need as much feedback as possible in order to make it better. To contrast, this is the original song from the game Chrono Trigger, composed by Yasunori Mitsuda. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJtwEpQe6w0

I don't understand where is the problem with crossing voices. I think this is very important in vocal composition. There is a book by Percy C. Buck, Unfigured Harmony, which is very old (1911 I think). That is to say: it talks about classic harmony, nothing about impressionism or other modern systems. It's a book I like. It says: "Never hesitate to cross parts. In vocal writing, pure and simple, there is not much reason for doing so, hence the habit has come to be considered unadvisable. But in writing for strings, or other instruments of large compass, it is most desirable that the different qualities possessed by different ranges should have fair play". In fact, in instrumental music there are cross voices we can identify easily. Pachelbel's original canon with three violins is constantly crossing parts. I gess many times crossing voices will not provide a good result. But making it a universal rule... Not for me, sure. About the quartet... It's nice, but this kind of sound (somewhat modern) is a bit odd in this classic style. This is something I don't see as a problem, you can turn it upside down and make it a novelty. It works better (to my taste) in the quiet movements (Andante, Menuetto).

I could also write about some of our history, which could be quite interesting. We'd need to get a few of our old guard members on board to help though.