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Absolutely recommended:
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1306158701.html
He's one of the most intelligent critics who ever wrote about film music (check out his Overtones and Undertones book as well).
Thank you very much for this! it was really interesting!
I couldn't agree more with this:
"if the music is too good, maybe you'll realize how bad the film is!"
and I like that Brown isn't afraid to state his opinion openly for some composers and their scores..
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Well, i just saw the scene you say.. it didn't sound familiar to me...
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Well, even for the worst Williams score, I'm not sure if anyone could do it better!
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Hello.
Does anyone have any clue what is the music that is playing in this trailer from a Greek TV series that has began recently?
it sounds like james Horner and some say that it's from Legends of the Fall, but I don't think so.
It does sound like Legends of the Fall, but that's not it. Sounds like a ripoff of it, which may or may not still be Horner.
Well, i bet it's Horner. I listened to various Horner themes just now, and they all sound alike, and most of them are in the same tonality too with this one. We'll see.
the same music (this time in its complete form) is here too from 1.56'' and on:
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Hello.
Does anyone have any clue what is the music that is playing in this trailer from a Greek TV series that has began recently?
it sounds like james Horner and some say that it's from Legends of the Fall, but I don't think so.
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Hi, try here -
http://www.starwarsarchives.com/
Click TIMELINE in the top right corner.
Then in the panel below click 1980.
Click the box that says lost making of.
On the right hand side of the panel, click the box that says MAKING OF JOURNAL.
It will either start downloading automatically or it will take you to a download page where you can download the book.
Towards the end of the book is an interview with John Williams which is pretty good.
I'm not sure how much it will help but it's at least worth checking out.
Oh, thanks for this one! Hadn't seen it!
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If Intrada does not want defective copies back, then how will they know that customer's request for a replacement copy is genuine?
I assume they will have in their records the names of the 3000 persons that got the Spacecamp cd..
So, if i request a replacement cd, they will check their records to see if I indeed had bought the original cd..
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Does it say anything in it about Williams' music?
perhaps a whole chapter on it?
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I know a cello/piano reduction of Elegy for Cello and Orchestra is due out this month - the 18th, according to the Hal Leonard website. That's all I know of.
oh.. i would prefer a film score, but i guess it's better than nothing.
i wonder why it doesn't show it when i put in the search bar "john williams" and sort by release date. i had to put "elegy williams" to see it..
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I have Pixar's Up, The Dark Night and I just got today Blade Runner 5 disc collecto'r sedition, and Criterion's Thin Red line.
there is a very interesting 16 minute interview there with Hans Zimmer about the music !
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Well, I would say that the E.T theme resembles more Les Baxter's Joy ,for which there was a lawsuit against Williams but he won.
Did JW win? I thought he settled it out of court for an undisclosed sum...
here's the article about it:
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/articles/2000/27_Apr---Baxter_v_Williams_Lawsuit_Recap.asp
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Any words of any new editions?? Does anyone know something?
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When Williams was inspired by someone then I would assume it was Dvorak.
I once played a piano trio and at one point there it was. A little snippet of E.T. but that's all.
What Williams has made with these notes is stunning!
oh yes.. that's it:
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Except for the usuals (terminator 2, empire strikes back, etc..) I would say Batman returns too is my favourite from all Batmans..
Oh, and definitely Indiana Jones and the temple of Doom is my favourite from all the series..
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Well, I would say that the E.T theme resembles more Les Baxter's Joy ,for which there was a lawsuit against Williams but he won. And Williams had performed this piece in a concert, so subconciously he may have derived something from it..
I find myself many times when i compose, fearing that a theme I found might resemble something I've heard in the past and I don't really remember it..
These things happen...
Filmmusic,
I didn't know about Les Baxter's 'Joy', so have just played the excerpt on amazon, and yes, interesting!
Interestingly when Les Baxter hired Nelson Riddle to write arrangements for Nat Cole, Baxter didn't credit Riddle for the arrangements (Mona Lisa, for example) as he was the conductor during the early Cole sessions, Baxter allowed himself to be credited with the arrangement. It was only after Cole found out who actually wrote the arrangement that Riddle was rightfully acknowledged.
here is the score too, for anyone who would like to compare ;-)
http://web.cfa.arizona.edu/lesbaxter/collection/scores/Joy.html
(the theme in discussion starts on page 5)
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Well, I would say that the E.T theme resembles more Les Baxter's Joy ,for which there was a lawsuit against Williams but he won. And Williams had performed this piece in a concert, so subconciously he may have derived something from it..
I find myself many times when i compose, fearing that a theme I found might resemble something I've heard in the past and I don't really remember it..
These things happen...
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HOOK!!
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Hello.
I was wondering if anyone knows good musicological books which describe the style of composing of each composer. e.g. different chapters on harmony, melody, orchestration etc, which sum up the basic techniques of the composer (mostly 20th century composers such as Copland, Bartok, stravinsky etc.)
The books i find usually have many biographical-historical facts, and they may analyse some individual works and not sum-up the composers' composing style
If it's film composers that you want, a nice set of books was published a few years ago, which covered many aspects of film-making (production design, directing, editing, etc.) which included composing, and featured interviews with the likes of Gabriel Yared, and Riuichi Sakamoto. It came with a (frankly naff) c.d., but it was worth reading. Hope this helps?
hmm. i'm not sure about which books you say (maybe Film score Guide Series from Scarecorw press? although they didn't have a cd).
But I was talking about classical composers..
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Hello.
I was wondering if anyone knows good musicological books which describe the style of composing of each composer. e.g. different chapters on harmony, melody, orchestration etc, which sum up the basic techniques of the composer (mostly 20th century composers such as Copland, Bartok, stravinsky etc.)
The books i find usually have many biographical-historical facts, and they may analyse some individual works and not sum-up the composers' composing style
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Well, i'm not sure a composer could be considered as an enterntainer. Or i don't know English well?
Does anyone know of a composer who is considered an "entertainer"?
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I think the bootleg has one track missing (the synth one), and adds the Kunzel rerecording, if I'm not mistaken. I don't have it though. But do a search, the info's somewhere on the MB, and it can't be hard to track down.
Yes, that's correct, but since the bootleg omits a track and adds another in its place, it still should have 14 tracks and not 15.
the reason for this is that the track 7 from the Japanese release (or track 7 from Intrada) is split into 2 tracks in the bootleg version (7 + 12).
and another difference is that I think the tracks are in the right order in the bootleg version/
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ordered!
For anyone that hasn't seen Spacecamp I suggest that you do. this was one of my favourite films in my childhood, and it still has the same effect until today that I'm watching it..
I always wondered why many people say it's a lousy movie..
what is lousy? the effects? the acting? the script?
Well, i don't think it pretended to be something else than it is..
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Oh, great!!
let's hope for Hook!!
Synth Celesta vs. regular celesta
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I have noticed in many Williams scores that he uses synth celesta instead of regular celesta.. (e.g.in the beginning of "The prologue" in Harry potter and Sorcere's stone)
Does anyone know why is that?
well, I understand that in passages that require 2 celestas he uses synth too, because there can't be 2 celestas in the orchestra..
but when there is a passage with one celesta? Is it because it might have a softer sound from the regular celesta and generally you are able to manipulate it's color?