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I tend to listen to "The Lost World" when I travle hehsomething about that percussion

I'm a string player. It gives a different sound completly... If you were to play on the first beat, lift your bow on the second, and then come back in, you would come back in more powerful... It also tends to cause the first beat to end slightly sooner. so their is a little gap between beat one and two. Chances are he was trying to get them to play vigorously and so that on beat two, they'd all lift their bows--which means taking the bow which would now be at the tip, and making a kind of arc in the air, and putting the hairs near the "frog" or that part near the players hand down onto the strings, causing them to come in-together and with some energy. Waltz's often use this so that their is a gap between beat 1 and two, and so that two is stronger than 1... or as stated, if done fast enough, and with strength on the first note, that can resonante until the next note comes in with power... EDIT: It also occurs to me that because certain phrases and especially things John writes are hard for string players to play, he may be saying to lift at that point so that the players have enough bow to play the next phrase without interruption... in that case, no real change in sound would happen except the next phrase would be intact....

I had trouble finding JP as well... I had TLW before I had JP.... and I had this before I had TLW... I loved it... then again, I'm part irish and I love Irish music, and I'm told that I was born in the wrong century... that I should have been born in the 20's and such... so I love all the source music and everything... loved it... So between that irish sound to the score, and the source music... I was hooked... Personally, I dunno if JW could have done better... I just think he could have done "different." not to say it wouldn't have been a grand score, but I dunno... I think Horner's style fit the film... but that's me...

how Do you think they faded together? I just did a mock edit of my own and have Anakin's Theme start right at that last beat of the intro so that the intro fades out over Anakins... and then DOTF's starts practically after Anakin's theme is acompletely faded out... maybe a moment sooner... Any ideas?

Well, In Roys First Encounter, which is track 4 for me, Around 30 seconds is where it kinda starts to sound like Palpatines Seduction. Then around 49, it sounds like the begining of the intercetion scene from War of the Worlds. Then at 1:15 it sounds like when they are driving away or something from Minority Report. 1:51 starts to sound like the music that plays while Ray (I almost wrote Roy :-p) kills Ogilve. 2:20 is again when it starts to sound like when Palpatine speaks to Anakin. The sound from Close Encounters in those parts are kinda like the sub-sounds of the scores for War of the Worlds, Minorty Report, and Star Wars... not neccisarily the overall sound, just those parts--espeically the parts from Epiosde III and WotW that weren't released.

Well... I'm just glad it was an alternate then cause...phew...that ...wow...yea... Although it seemingly fits... The transitions work that way...

Are we sure that was a version Williams did? Some of that sounds soo over the top for Williams... and even off tempo... almost as if the extra instruments and percussion had been added in latter to soup it up... I mean, that's totally something you could do with a synth... cut off the end credits where it did, play the intruments over the piece but since someone silly is doing it, they were a tinge off tempo... and even the extra instruments themselves almost sound better as if the actual music file had been converted already and lost some information, then when the instruments were added (off tempo), they converted it again, causing it to loose some more sound... --causing the new instruments to sound slightly better-- ... I dunno... I'm suspicious of that...

didn't the girl who played his sister pass away recently?

In listening to Close Encounters again, I have to say it's very... refreshing to compare it to War of the Worlds. It almost pulls it out of history and makes me pretend I havn't heard it before and tha tI'm hearing it for the first time... I like that. You can definately hear the old-school John Williams in the score... I mean, that was when he was in his old-school-prime lol I can totally hear "Palpatines Seduction" in "Roy's First Encounter" and even "War of the Worlds" when the strings get crazy... Wow... I'm actually waiting for the Tri-pod to come out now lol...Wrong alien movie heh Edit: Off topic, I realize, but I like Tom Crise. I think he's hot, and he's not as dumb as people seem to think he is. Scientology also isn't that ratical of a religion if people bothered to look it up, most people would be easy believers, the problem is this nations dependancy on "Pharmy and Back-up Pharmy." We don't want to accept we have control of our lives and because we're a christian state, most people dismiss any other religon as crazy... and I'm done... Double Edit: Play track 7 "False Alarm" of Close Encounters anniversary, then track 5 "ET's new Home of ET anniversary. I love it. I started whistling the ET theme over close encounter lol...

Listening to the score again, and thinking back to the film, I think that score, plus Jurassic Park, are the ones that really got me interested in music and film music. He did what he could with what little money he had and I think he did an amazing job. I personally can't see anyother music fitting the film. Between that and his score to Deep Impact... I normally am not a fan of modern James Horner, but I love those two scores...

I wasn't sure if anyone wanted it, but I have a recording of the wal-mart exclusive interview with J. W.'s... Wasn't sure if you guys maybe wanted it..

I would venture the guess that he didn't want his movie to be known as "the thing he did after Lord of the Rings," and what I've heard of Shore's score to Kong, it sounds, still, very Lord of the Rings... And my bet is, he didn't want people walking out of the theatre going "Oh god... That was so Lord of the Rings..." EDIT: GET IT!GET IT! "Venture" pft... lol... I so silly

I'm sorry but I had to do this. I go to the music school at Stetson U, a private college here in florida, and this guy once asked a group of people I was with: "Yo-Yo Ma... who would name their kid that? YoYo." and I replied. "Yo-Yo's Ma?" ...good times...

Yea. The begining starts off with an almost Superman March thing. Especially the transition between the theme and the restatment sounds like something from something he's done. That's why I just kinda assumed it was wrong when it said John Williams--which i know to be wrong because I haveall the Zelda scores and I know he didn't write the theme--but thought maybe he'd arranged it. Who in their right mind changed the artists? Why would someone do that?To get a kick out of it?? Oye...

I had simply assumed he'd arranged it because part of it does sound very Williams.

I didn't buy it because I had all the stuff already. If I wanted to make a compilation cd, I'd burn one from all the soundtracks I have... but it's just annoying to me to do that... I personally, choose which cd I listen to depending on my mood. I couldn't stand listening to something with themes and such from tons of his scores because they're all kinda different moods, which I would end up skipping half the tracks. So, that's why I dind't buy it. I didn't feel it was realy worth it. To each his own though

it was short in the film. THere is a clip of that scene somewhere ... the music kinda ends with almost a heart beat right?,... just a quiet throbbing... then the battle begins, and there is no music for a while...

Through the ressurection, Jesus defeated death... hence the wite witch dying... I suppose the author took some creative liscence lol :-p... (and btw, there were a ton--I've counted over 30 so far--of things that mirrored if not copied the bible in the story/movie) but that's just a side note.. back on topic lol

I wish I could pretend that well... I think pretending it's not would take more imagination than I've got lol Musically speaking it was ok. I dind't stay to listen to the credits though. I was leaving just as that "extra" scene played though... I didn't stay for Alanis' song. Is that a new disney trend as well? placing extra scenes in the end credits so that people stay?

hehehe... Qui Goldsmith... hehehe...

I saw the movie last night and thought a few things: I love Harry Gregson-Williams... what he did for Shrek and stuff... I love those scores... This... I wondered a little what he was thinking when he did some of it... or, what the director said. There were times when almost pop-ey music played during the film... and I was surprised because... well, I didn't expect that... I suppose they are trying to appeal to a younger audience so that music naturally would make it in there... but the usage was little. There were moments where I was kinda like "eh..." like seeing that one scene with the two armies comming at each other out of context on the interent as a special sneak peak... didn't appeal to me... But in the movie it works alright... over all the movie gets a "good" rating from me. All the hype about the Christianity and stuff ruined the movie for me because I sat their the whole time--having never read the novels and knowing NOTHING about the story past kids, a prophesy and an ice witch--trying to figure out where the biblical alegory fit... and believe me, I found it. I tried to sit back and view it as a movie and not as the bible but couldn't so I dunno, I think I'd have to see it again with a DIFFERENT audience then last time--living in Florida has many disadvantages ::cough cough:: people clapping saying "there's jesus" ::cough cough::... Musically it worked Story was good adaptation wasn't that great (or rather, the exposition) because I have a TON of questions like "How do you know if an animal was on the ice queens side or not?" and "who made the prophesy" and camera wise, they did a TON of tight shots... and some shots could have been better if they lasted longer... and not cut so quickly... so... it's a "good" movie.

I love this song. I sang it for a talent show in High School and got 2nd place. I arranged it for two violins, piano, and voice. My county orchestra also played a medly of John Williams themes including that one. I personally love that song. It introduced me to Lara Fabian whom I must say is an A-MAZ-ING artist... I have all her cd's now... She is just amazing... I like John Groban, but I love Lara more ... she doesn't bleat like a goat on live tv like he did... Amazing song.. .lyrics are touching, the tune is touching.. it's just... perfect ... to me...

I have the original max rebo band song. It's ripped from the dvd and from the Making of tape... For the most part, it's not from the movie itself so it sounds pretty good... it could use some more editing I suppose... but I find it to be fine as is... also I noticed... maybe you intentionally left it out, but there is another version of the Ewok Celebration that is instrument and vocal... non-ewok... just fyi

I used stefancos thing... it worked with me... took a couple of attempts, but I did get it eventaully...

maybe have those booklets explaining the tracks like the original release of the complete scores to the original trilogy had... until they re-packaged them without the booklets...