Fozmo 13 Posted June 11, 2012 Posted June 11, 2012 Firstly, my apologies if this has been posted before in some way, I did do a search of JWFan but couldn't find any reference to it...Anyway, I stumbled upon this page:http://musicandmotio...d/Superman_Pdf/Here you'll find a list of PDFs which contain page by page scans of JW's hand-written manuscript for Superman: The Movie (1978)!!!A fascinating insight, it includes title page, table of contents, most of the cues (some are missing sadly, I haven't found them elsewhere) and a printed full-score 'Superman Theme'.The FSM Superman: The Music (1978-88) "Blue Box" liner-notes made several references to JW's comments, markers etc, hand-written in and around the staves of the manuscript; e.g. 'The Rescue of Jimmy' [13m4] (from 'Superfeats') had Superman's arrival indicated as "Guess Who?", 'Kansas High School' [4m1] notated as "Heavy 50's Rock". These (and more) can all be found here!!Just thought I'd let you all know, is all!
Jay 46,241 Posted June 11, 2012 Posted June 11, 2012 That isn't John Williams' original handwriting. These are fan-made transcriptions that have been floating around the internet forever.
Fozmo 13 Posted June 11, 2012 Author Posted June 11, 2012 That isn't John Williams' original handwriting. These are fan-made transcriptions that have been floating around the internet forever.Well, bugger me sideways. Then how come they correlate with the info in the FSM liner-notes?!Are you saying this was a hand-written copy of the original manuscript?
Jay 46,241 Posted June 11, 2012 Posted June 11, 2012 Are you saying this was a hand-written copy of the original manuscript?Yes
filmmusic 3,269 Posted June 12, 2012 Posted June 12, 2012 how can someone go there from the main site?and anyway, isn't it forbidden to put the whole score in the open like this?
Jilal 681 Posted June 12, 2012 Posted June 12, 2012 I guess it is... But it also is illegal to distribute them privately.Anyway, it's the complete score that we're looking for (somebody on this forum has it, he/she has it listed as complete score orchestrated by Morley).
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