Music is a central theme of the In Nomine universe. Angels form into choirs. Demons into bands. Songs and resonance shape the nature of creation while dissonance and discord mark deviations from it. While I am working my way through the Duchies of hell, I need an equivalent project for the host of heaven.
In music I think I have found it.
As the Archangel of Dreams, Blandine has several options to chose from. Lullabies are an obvious choice, as are folk songs, nocturnes, and Compline prayers. There’s also a good selection of pop, rock, and metal with themes of sleep and dreams but you should try to avoid songs about nightmares, and soft-petal intentional dissonance. Newer songs may fit quite well thematically, but on the whole it is demons who prefer forming into bands.
I have placed my favorite Song for Blandine at the end of the list, but have otherwise ordered this mix by length.
Trollmors vaggvisa (Swedish Lullaby)
Morag of Dunvegan (Irish Lullaby)
Long, Long Time Ago (Pan’s Labyrinth)
Sleepwalk (Santo & Johnny)
Mr. Sandman (Chordettes)
Nuku, Nuku (Finnish Lullaby)
Goodnight Irene (Lead Belly)
Puppy Song (Harry Nilsson)
Mbube (Zulu Mbube)
Dream a Little Dream of Me (Ella Fitzgerald)
Dreams (Brandi Carlile)
Durme Durme (Sephardic Lullaby)
Nice Dream (Radiohead)
Bad Days (Flaming Lips)
Dreams (Cranberries)
Sleeping Beauty Waltz (Tchaikovsky)
Dreams About Flying (Alexi Murdoch)
Clair de Lune (Debussy)
Nunc Dimittis (Josquin de Pres)
Moonlight Sonata (Mozzart)
Hushabye Mountain (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
Would mind doing a list of these by year? I’m looking for dates so i can time them correctly for my historical campaign.
1c – “Nunc dimittis” first written as a prayer (Luke)
14c – Morag of Dunvegan, keep and seat of the MacLeods of Harris is built
16c – “Nunc dimittis” set to music by Josquin de Pres
1662 – Anglican church publishes evensong version of “Nunc dimittis”
18c – “Nuku, Nuku, Nurmilintu” first written down (already a folk song)
1801 – “Moonlight Sonata” composed (Ludwig van Beethoven)
1869 – The poem “Clair de Lune” written (Paul Verlaine)
1889 – “Sleeping Beauty Waltz” composed (Tchaikovsky)
1890 – “Sleeping Beauty Waltz” first performed (Tchaikovsky)
1905 – “Clair de Lune” composed and first performed (Debussy)
1908 – “Goodnight Irene” composed (Lead Belly)
1931 – “Dream a Little Dream of Me” composed and first recorded (Ozzie Nelson)
1933 -” Goodnight Irene” first recorded (Lead Belly)
1939 – “Mbube” composed and first recorded (Solomon Linda)
1943 – “Trollmors Vaggvisa” first published (Margit Holmberg)
1950 – Ella Fitzgerald records “Dream a Little Dream of Me”
1952 – “Mbube” released in the US as “Wimoweh” (The Weavers)
1954 – Lyrics for “Morag of Dunvegan” first published (Katherine Douglas)
1954 – “Mr. Sandman” composed and first recorded (Chordettes)
1959 – “Sleepwalk” composed and first recorded (Santo & Johnny)
1959 – “Sleeping Beauty Waltz” given lyrics and released as “Once Upon a Dream” for Disney’s Sleeping Beauty
1960 – Miriam Makeba records “Mbube”
1961 – “Mbube” released in the US as “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” (The Tokens)
1963 – “Puppy Song” composed and first recorded (Harry Nilsson)
1964 – The novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang written by Ian Fleming
1968 – Mama Cass records “Dream a Little Dream of Me”
1968 – “Hushabye Mountain” written for the film of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1990 – “Dreams” composed and first recorded (Cranberries)
1993 – “Dreams” first published (Cranberries)
1994 – “Bad Days” composed and first recorded (Flaming Lips)
1999 – Modest Mouse covers “Sleepwalk” as “Sleepwalkin'”
2006 – Pan’s Labyrinth released (Long, Long Time Ago)
2006 – “Dreams About Flying” composed and first recorded (Alexi Murdoch)
2009 – “Dreams” composed and first recorded (Brandi Carlile)
2011 – Richard and Linda record “Hushabye Mountain” together
Are you up to doing another one these? I’d like to see some In Nomine songs for Christmas since I’m visiting family that week.
I’m planning to do some songs for Christopher that week, and it will include at least a handful of holiday songs.
Could you do another timeline for christopher’s songs. I’m using songs from every playlist except asmodeus’ (i already have songs i’m using for his region of hell.)
A good number of Christopher’s songs are folk songs, which makes it quite difficult to get a date of origin, but I’ll see what I can turn up.
Music links updated.