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That would be excellent!!!!

Yes it does. Thanks!

A member here was very kind to send me the mp3. Thanks again. It was indeed the concert arrangement. Too bad that it wasn't the end credits.. i didn't really like this arrangement in comparison to old Williams concert arrangemenets..

I wanted to ask you Frosty if this score matches the Jaws Suite in The Spielberg/Williams collaboration cd..

Hello. I just bought Sayuri's theme Signature edition and it wasn't eventually what I thought it would be (e.g the end credits or something from the soundtrack). It's probably a concert version of the theme. Does anyone Know if there is an mp3 somewhere which matches this edition? probably it's an arrangement for williams' concerts?

Thank you very much Nemesis for your cue! It's excellent indeed but I don't think something like that would fit (according to the director always, on the contrary I would like to hear something like that with the specific scene).. I like it very much but I guess I would be told that it's too much complicated.

Thank you very much for your suggestions! But I have done all that.. I have exhausted all the posibilitites that can be made... Even a dramatic cue (without panic) (the dramatic one resembles the last track from the 2nd cd of Legends of the fall complete score if anyone knows it [1.22-....]. He says all are very good but don't fit the movie. I'm so curious to see what fits... Here's the original version of the first cue (not from the beginning). original cue Apparently he doesn't like that piano figure and most of all the brass! He says it resembles like we're in a mafia movie.. But I don't agree because I have found many examples with this kind of orchestration in many kinds of movies.. I wouldn't put that percussion rhythm either but it was a request.. At least the part from 0.21'' and on fits perfectly because it's when the child is on the cliff, looking down, thinking of making the dive, and another one shouts "what are you doing". I was instructed to make a feeling of dizziness and I think those tremolo strings with these figures do that...

Unfortunately we're still stuck on these 2 cues... I have made 4-5 alternate cues (percussive, more percussive, dramatic, adventure) and even I put 2-3 temp tracks from other soundtracks but nothing seems to please the director.. I'm searching any similar scene from other movies... it doesn't have to have percussion only, just to see how these scenes are treated.. Although I know, and I'm telling him but I can't convince him... The 2 scenes which are similar are like this: A child is running towards a cliff by the sea to jump ( to show that he can do it) and someone is after him.. He eventually jumps... The first time he dies, the 2nd he's saved.. And all this is set in a greek island. Does anyone know any similar scene? we want mostly from European films because the director doesn't want Hollywood stuff or too big!! His argument is that the cue must fit the general setting of the film (greek island). But I don't agree with this.. If a film is set in China then all the music in the soundtrack must be traditional chinese? It doesn't go like this.. Of course it'll have some elements here and there but we can't expect the music always to give clues about the place.. Can anyone suggest something of Morricone? I'm not so familiar with his work...

Thank you very much for your suggestions.. although I have to make an only percussion piece, on the other hand i shouldn't make it too "big-sounding" like for a hollywood movie.. Difficult..

Thank you all for your suggestions! I'll check them out. (I'm aware of the Aliens music. It's great but too militaristic for this kind os scene). The theme is that both me and the director are insisting on our opinions and someone has to give up eventually. If my track won't be used finally, I'll put it here so as to tell me what you think. Am I the only one who thinks that it's very "panic-y' and fitted for the scene? I'm so puzzled, because I don't know how to make with only percussion things that only harmony and different orchestration colours can do.. I also heard the track "echo game" from House of flying daggers. This has a nice rhythm too, but it's always the same , it doesn't change a bit in all the duration of the piece.. Edit: I heard the Attack of the clones track! Thanks, I didn't remember it, it was my least favourite score of the SW series. It has many helpful percussion only passages, but still I insist that there are more things that only percussion can't do! Oh, well....

Hello! I'm writing the music score for a drama film set in a Greek island. I have 2 similar cues of a child running and falling from a cliff in the sea below.. The keyword for the scene is "panic". I have written a mainstream action cue that I think best fits the scene but the director wants something with only percussion. ( I personalyy disagree with that and I don't think it fits the film and the rest of the low profile classical orchestral music) Something like the feeling of a temp piece he sent me from Beck's "We are MArshall" (track 13). Can anyone recommend me similar cues with ONLY percussion that bring out the sense of panic? Not any electronics (like in Terminator) but more symphonic percussion...

Thanks, but still isn't right.. I think it might have a slow attack too (because the start sounds hard).. Anyway, thanks

I don't know if you understood correctly what i was talking about, but according to your words, everyone should stop using a sound of a horn, or violin, or celesta, or harp etc. because they have been used by a million other composers and we shouldn't emulate them?? I was referring just to the SOUND of the piano, NOT the melody, or the harmony, or rhythm, or orchestration, or counterpoint!

Does anyone Know how can I achieve that mellow piano sound from American Beauty soundtrack? What effects do you need? I have Eastwest Platinum XP and other piano samples but i can't seem to get close to that sound...

Oh, I didn't know that film, thanks, I just saw it in youtube. Unfortunately the music I'm seeking is not from there!

Does anyone know which is the music with the choir at around 2.58'' in this video? I know that the choir piece in the first part of the teaser is from "The Hunt for Red October" but I can't identify the other one. I'm sure it'a s film music cue.

I have read that the Imperial MArch form ESB resembles the 2nd movement of Mahler's 2nd Symphony (the first few notes of the phrase) and the first movemnet of his 6th Symphony. But really I can't seem to find that resemblance. Does anyone know the spot in the music?

Thank you very much!!!! we were two people searching for this!!!! THanks again!!

It's a piece from a soundtrack that I don't know which!! it's a characteristic theme, repeating itself, in full glory with choir etc. it's not from the beginning of the track! Does anyone know it?? link removed

Thank you very much! The awards ceremony was held yesterday, but they haven't announced anything on the net yet!

Does anyone Know who won in the Jerry Goldsmith Awards? I am among the nominees and I'm a little anxious!

Does anyone Know if there is anywhere a downloadable version of the "Judy Green" sheet templates used in film scores?

I'm not talking about the marimbas, but for the ambient sounds he uses as background to his piano themes in the specific tracks I mention in my first post! It's something like glass strings I guess?

Thomas Newman wrote the soundtrack to American Beauty!

Does anyone know what music samples did Newman use in "American beauty" and where can I find them(or something similar to them)? (In the score cd there are those accompanying the melancholic piano theme in "mental boy" and "Angela undress)