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The Ancient Wanderer

A journey through a fictional ancient world, told entirely through music. As you scroll, new layers of the composition enter — strings, percussion, choir — building and dissolving with the landscape.

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Solo String
Harp
Light Perc
Cello
Light Orc
Double Bass
Choir
Med Perc
Full Strings
Full Orc
Heavy Perc

An Original Composition — Jack Larkin

The AncientWanderer

An unnamed traveller. A world without edges.
A silence that remembers.

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The Summit

Sparse · Lost · Searching

The Summit at the Edge of Memory

"I did not choose this road — it found me at the edge of everything."

The music begins with almost nothing — a solo string against silence, a harp answering. The world is vast. The traveller is small. This is where we start: stripped back, uncertain, looking out at a landscape that has no name.

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Solo String
Harp

A world remembered before it was ever known.

The Valley

Ancient · Warm · Melancholic

The Valley of Forgotten Names

"The stones here were shaped by hands that are gone. I can still feel the warmth of them."

Rhythmic percussion enters beneath the strings — steady, ancient. The melody shifts from searching to recognition. The harp continues. Someone was here before. The music carries the shape of lives that no longer exist to claim it.

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Solo String
Harp
Light Perc
The World Revealed

Epic · Triumphant · Ancient

The World Revealed

"And then — all at once — the world opened. And it was more than I could hold."

The full orchestration arrives. Cello and low strings give the music weight and earth. A light orchestra swells around the melody. This is the heart of the composition — the moment everything that came before resolves into something larger than itself.

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Solo String
Harp
Light Perc
Cello
Light Orc

Every silence was simply the world gathering its breath.

Where the Sea Holds Its Dead

Dark · Reverent · Still

Where the Sea Holds Its Dead

"To stand here is to understand that beauty and ruin are the same thing."

Double bass and choir enter — grounding the sacred in something earthen and inevitable. The harp and light percussion fall away. The solo string continues, quieter now. This is not sadness — it is completion. What stands here has already become something else.

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Solo String
Cello
Double Bass
Choir
The Road That Leads to Itself

Resolved · Distant · Eternal

The Road That Leads to Itself

"I recognised the summit from below. I had been here before. I always had been."

The full strings return — broader, knowing. Medium percussion drives the music forward into something that feels both like an ending and a beginning. The original melody surfaces one last time, transformed by everything that followed it.

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Full Strings
Med Perc
Choir

The Ancient Wanderer
Original Composition

Composed by Jack Larkin

Full Strings
Full Orc
Heavy Perc

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Final Year Composition for Screen
University of Huddersfield · 2025
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