Anyway, I've been teaching a medley of songs to a group recently and was wondering how to convey the sense of how it has a series of separate things linked up into a whole. Like most medleys it includes changes of mood, key, and rhythmic shape. The arrangement also includes a few sections where soloists or small groups are taking sections of the songs, which needs to be included in the approach to learning. Incorporating these elements through the learning process helps to avoid the difficulties in stitching the whole piece together later on. When I first saw the music I thought it might be a candidate for a song map, a bit like something I've done before.
But this one has to take account of there being four songs, of which parts are farmed out to different sections of the whole performing organisation. For some reason I was musing on Game of Thrones while looking over the score, and it occurred to me that the opening sequence might be a good way of approaching the task. The reason for this is that the various parts of the landscape are well-defined, and the landmarks rise up out of the map. Because the castles come up in sections, it's possible to draw them in a way that allows parts of the object to be shaded out to indicate a sense of the sections of each song.
Here's the opening sequence from Game of Thrones, just to give you an idea of where I started, followed by something that was too good not to include here.
