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It’s Barry. I mean, you know mostly what you’re getting, but this one has great themes and superb arrangements.   If you like Barry, I highly recommend it.  Part of why you might not remember it in the film is some of it was rescored by Sylvester Levay. And then there were the Cherry Bomb pop songs. So it may have been easy to miss the entirety of what Barry delivered, but given this presentation with all the alternates, I’d say he gave it his all. 

Quite good score.
Tonal, dramatic, romantic, with gorgeous melodies...

It was alright I guess...

Classic!
I don't even love the movie but I bought it nonetheless to support magnificent restorations, like the Arrow is one (unlike the latest Cameron 4Ks which seem to be awful!)

Decided to correct and expand Memoirs of Geisha OST breakdown a bit. Thanks @filmmusic for some observations in that thread!
 

01 Sayuri's Theme
1m2A New [The Story] 
 
02 The Journey to the Hanamachi
0:00-1:58 - 1m1Alt The Opening (mm. 1-18/24)
     1:02 - SKIPPED: mm. 8-9
     1:11 - SKIPPED: mm. 11-12
1:50-end - Theme 
- In 1m1Alt instead of the usual signature "J. Williams BMI" it says "J. Williams (after Demo Model)". There are a lot of inconsistencies between the sketch and the recording of the cue. From JW remained shakuhachi's solos, string sustains and some taiko hits, the rest of the "decorations" (percussion and synths) were done in a different way.
- Theme was probably the first cue written, perhaps even as a demo. The sketch was written a bit hurriedly, without specifying the tempo and, for example, specifying the synth timbre: "synth (later)".
 
03 Going to School
1m7 New Off to School 
     (2:30-2:38 - that bars are missing from the sketch)
 
04 Brush on Silk
0:00-0:14 - 2m2 New A Teasing
0:14-0:25 - 2m2 New B
0:25-end - 2m2 New C
2:16-end - 2m2B Approaching Mameha (as overlay, as it should)
 
05 Chiyo's Prayer
0:00-2:09 - 3m4 Chio's Prayer (mm. 1-33/40)
2:09-3:02 - 2m4 A House Called Tatsuyo (mm. 9-22/22)
3:02-end - 3m4 Chio's Prayer (mm. 34-40/40)

06 Becoming a Geisha
4m2 Mameha's Instruction
     3:27 - SKIPPED: mm. 103-112 
 
07 Finding Satu
0:00-1:44 - 3m5 Enter Mameo (mm. 1-30/32)
1:44-2:31 - 5m4 Do You Like Someone Else (mm. 6-17/32)
2:31-3:08 - 1m5A The Roofs of Hamachi (mm. 11-18/22)
3:04-end - 2m2B Approaching Mameha (again)
 
08 The Chairman's Waltz
Chairman's Waltz (Full Version)
     2:23 - SKIPPED: mm. 79-114
    (that 35 bars copied from Chairman's Waltz (Violin Variations))
 
09 The Rooftops of the Hanamachi
0:00-1:57 - 3m1 New On the Roof (mm. 1-59/89)
     1:14 - SKIPPED: mm. 21-23
     1:46 - SKIPPED: mm. 50-51
1:57-2:10 - 3m1 New Insert
     1:57 - SKIPPED: mm. 61-62
2:10-2:43 - 3m1 New On the Roof (mm. 59-89/89)
     2:38 - SKIPPED: mm. 82-85 (approx.)
2:43-end - 3m1 On the Roof (mm. 50-82/82)
     3:18 - SKIPPED: mm. 66-67
     3:35 - SKIPPED: m. 77
- The 3m1 New Insert was written before the recording, and it only adds material and doesn't replace anything. It also adds one bar around 1:46 (not in the OST).
- This track combines two versions of the cue for the same scene.

10 The Garden Meeting
0:00-1:40 - 7m5 Preparing for the Reunion
1:40-end - 5m8 The Cherry Garden (mm. 4-16/16)
 
11 Dr. Crab's Prize
6m3Alt
- In the sketch instead of the usual JW signature it says "Trad. Japan" (as in 6m1Alt).

12 Destiny's Path
7m7 We Have No Choice
     1:20 - SKIPPED: m. 22
     2:00 - SKIPPED: m. 33
     2:32 - SKIPPED: m. 43
 
13 A New Name... A New Life
4m3 A New Name... A New Life

14 The Fire Scene and the Coming of War
0:00-3:21 - 6m4 The Fire Scene
     0:59 - SKIPPED: mm. 23-27
     1:05 - SKIPPED: m. 30
3:21-end - 6m5A The War Comes (mm. 1-58/60)
6:37 - last sustain tracked from somewhere else: it should be G, not C.
 
15 As the Water... 
0:00-0:54 - 6m5B After the War (mm. 1-18/38)
0:54-end - 6m5B After the War (Vln+Vc Version) (mm. 18-40/40)
(the violin part is played by viola an octave lower)

16 Confluence 
8m3 New Coming Together
 
17 A Dream Discarded
8m1C Rev. The Hankerchief Scene
- The letter "C" stands for "cello" here. Four versions of this cue were written: two for flute and two for Yo Yo Ma.
 
18 Sayuri's Theme and End Credits
0:00-3:44 - Sayuri's Theme (mm. 1-124/142)
3:44-end - ?new ending? 
- There are differences in orchestration of Sayuri's Theme: most of the theme's renditions were entrusted to Japanese instruments (or synths that imitate them). On the recording, they almost all replaced by orchestral instruments (mostly by cello).
- The new ending is the transposed last bars of 4m2 Mameha's Instruction.

THE MUMMY is a fantastic flick. Better, and certainly more fun, than the last two Indiana Jones movies.

Classic!
I don't even love the movie but I bought it nonetheless to support magnificent restorations, like the Arrow is one (unlike the latest Cameron 4Ks which seem to be awful!)

I just discovered this release from Neumation's facebook.
 
I don't know if anyone grew up with this series but this was one of my most wanted TV animation soundtracks.
Alas, the 17 minutes of this release don't include all the music cues that I remembered from the show (I just browsed the first episode to confirm that there was other music indeed too).
Neumation says this must be a teaser. I hope so!

Classic!
I don't even love the movie but I bought it nonetheless to support magnificent restorations, like the Arrow is one (unlike the latest Cameron 4Ks which seem to be awful!)

I just discovered this release from Neumation's facebook.
 
I don't know if anyone grew up with this series but this was one of my most wanted TV animation soundtracks.
Alas, the 17 minutes of this release don't include all the music cues that I remembered from the show (I just browsed the first episode to confirm that there was other music indeed too).
Neumation says this must be a teaser. I hope so!

I used to love the score to TITANIC, but in later years I realized that it's not even among the best Horner scores. (in my opinion, that is , of course).

I don’t agree with you there. It’s both an amazing film and score. Agree with everything else. 
 
 

I just finished listening to it!
I agree with your assessment. I'm not familiar at all with Donaggio, but this was impressive indeed.

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I just discovered this release from Neumation's facebook.
 
I don't know if anyone grew up with this series but this was one of my most wanted TV animation soundtracks.
Alas, the 17 minutes of this release don't include all the music cues that I remembered from the show (I just browsed the first episode to confirm that there was other music indeed too).
Neumation says this must be a teaser. I hope so!

Are these Dragon scores that good?
I tried to listen to the first one, but I found it too bombastic for my ears, as I find most of Powell's music.
I found it curious that all three of them were also released as sheet music books from Omni Music.

This is a great one. Big, bold and religoso, with choir and operatic solo voices, among other things. True, some of those "contemporary ostinati" here and there aren't that interesting, but for the most part a very impressive work by Mr. Donaggio in the latter part of his career. (Sorry I didn't mention to it to you before, filmmusic, but I only just discovered it myself as I'm trying to build my Donaggio collection a little bit).

We will never publish transcriptions, an original manuscript is a requirement for all of our publications. 
 
The Nic Raine transcription is more of a reimagining of the score than it is an accurate representation of what Barry actually wrote. 

Shared at the John Barry group on Facebook:

And from @bruckhorn’s link which you quoted:
 
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Just finished this. I broke my no-recent-films principle (), because it is Gibson!
Well, some pretty impressive realistic battle scenes, but other than that I don't get the high rating at imdb and the Oscar nominations..

Great cast, great score. 

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A score-masterpiece, that elevates the film very much! Love Arnold  so I won't be objective in my opinion about the film, but I think it's a cult classic. Watched the International cut.
 

 
A somewhat silly sequel, with not so good effects of the creature (I wonder how better it would be if Rick Baker had done the special effects) but enjoyable again nonetheless. The score is mostly a rehash of the first movie's score, but it features a new equally good main theme.
 
Watched both films from my newly purchased spectacular Arrow 4k release!

Well, if you ask me about the score of the year, it's this one:
 
It plays like old school film music, actually more like classical music with large atonal parts and more extended harmony parts resembling Mahler (maybe?) or other composers (who???)..
Please give it a listen (I mean all of you jwfanners) , and tell me your thoughts in the appropriate thread. I would be really curious to know...
I was very surprised when I listened to it, about how good it is! There is no contest with any other film score of the year. 
I don't know how it plays to picture though...