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ADMIN NOTE: Spoilers if you haven't seen through Season 5, episode 8! For the fans!

There are a lot of ways of describing that chord and choosing the most appropriate name depends on the context. So much of the way harmony is taught emphasizes chords as structures in their own right, when that actually is not the most important factor in harmonic analysis. The two things that are most important are context and function, which go hand-in-hand. The chord you cite above has Bb-Eb-Ab with Eb in the bass. One might call it a "quartal chord", i.e., a chord built in fourths rather than thirds, but that might be a bit misleading and not really tell us anything about how the chord is used. The beginning of that same phrase alternates between I and IV chords, so with Eb again in the bass for this chord and having all but the G in common, it sounds a lot like IV, which of course has subdominant function. In fact, from all the IV chords at the start of the phrase, it sounds like the G has been replaced with the Ab. In that sense, the chord might best be described as an Eb chord with a 4th substituting for the 3rd. In other words, an Ebsus4 with subdominant function. That makes the most sense to me because of the chord's context. There are also other sus chords in this theme, like at the end of the first phrase, where we get Bb-F-Eb, or a Bbsus4 chord with tonic function. I talk more about this theme on my blog: http://www.filmmusicnotes.com/john-williams-themes-part-5-of-6-theme-from-jurassic-park/

The Major 7 Sus 2 is a staple of certain strains of modern jazz. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwnRNz7O9ro

He looks like he could be Tenant's dad. Or Ten himself when he gets a little older.

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We are not fans of fun!

Excuse me? Just because your children will starve for some high quality music doesn't mean that JW doesn't rock anymore. Priorities man, priorities! And I thought you were a fan of the Maestro! Hah! I thought JWROCKS was some kind of discount code but maybe it was a joke. Anyway, the CD came today, fun to hear a score that is in your shelf but never listened to it. Sounds great. Interesting chords. Hehehe I missed your little joke there entirely. So you have had Rosewood in your collection before but have not listened to it until you got the expanded set? Now that is curious behaviour for a JW fan. Should I doubt your loyalties to the Master? The score does sound great and there are many great little moments on the Disc 1 that were absent from the OST. The soundtrack on the whole is somewhat low key outside a few dramatic setpieces but the beauty is in the nuances and the atmosphere. Also there are a few instances where Williams pulls out really interesting and wonderful grooves, rhythms and melodies that you wish could have been expanded but stop rather short just when you think they should kick to a higher gear. Alas this is the nature of film music. Some of the material in this score foreshadow Williams' darker post 2000 music but it is in general his dramatic scores of the mid-90's onwards from which JW draws much stylistic influences for his two later Prequel scores and the likes of War of the Worlds, Minority Report etc. I just saw the film again and here is an updated chronological track list: 1.Rosewood 2.The Town of Sumner 3.The Arrival of Mann 4.Mann Goes Shopping/Mann Meets Scrappie 5.Prayers at Dinner/The Wrights/War Drums 6.Scrappie and Mann Bond/The Beating 7.False Accusation 8.The Lie/Arresting Aaron 9.Roughing up Aaron/Aaron in Jail 10.Sam's Murder 11. Discovering Sam's Body/Mann's First Exit 12. Exchanging Gifts/Cracker Mob A short fragment of Look Down Lord plays for the church scene between Exchanging Gifts and Cracker Mob. 13. Sarah is Shot/Attack on the House (I used the film version with the vocal solo from disc 2 as the opening and edited it to the purely orchestral alternate found on disc 1. It works surprisingly well.) 14.Kids to the Woods/The House Burns 15.The Fire/Fanny's Guilt 16.Look Down Lord (in the film only a short passage plays at this point) 17.The Klan Gathers/Wright's Decision/The Crackers Gather 18.Mann Rescues the Kids 19.Hide the Man, John/Wright's Dilemma/We Mee at Eight 20.Mann Leads the Group 21.Crossing the Road 22. The Capture of Mann/Mann's Great Escape 23. The Burning Town (Alternate & Film Version) (Here I open with the orchestral drums and edit the soloist film version found on disc 2 into the material. As no clean ending for Shirley Caesar's performance is available I let the lamenting strings that follow the vocal solo continue until I found a suitable place where I could fade out the piece satisfyingly.) 24. Light My way 25. The Freedom Train (Unused) Playing these two pieces back to back creates an uplifting choral finale to the whole dramatic arc before the subsequent tracks wind the musical drama to a finish. Jeff Bond speculated in the liner notes that Freedom Train might have been meant to play during the second half of the train sequence. 26. Sylvester Joins the Group (I cut the drums of The Burning Town section out, the music opening with the solo horn but I believe this whole track can be found on disc 2 track 14 Mann at Rosewood so you don't actually have to do any editing) 27. After the Fire Look Down Lord is reprised (the full track) at the beginning of the end credit roll before the actual End Titles. 28. End Titles