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    gkgyver got a reaction from Once in Howard Shore's The Desolation Of Smaug (Hobbit Part 2)   
    That's what Jackson said.
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Sharkissimo in The 25 Greatest Film Composers In Cinema History   
    You'd be truly ignorant looking down on Rota and his scores for Fellini and Romeo and Juliet. Especially the latter one is an absolute masterpiece.
    But aside from that argument: Thomas Newman ranked higher than Danny Elfman, and Menken higher than Horner ... mmmmkay.
    And Newton-Howard and Silvestri (based on The Avengers and Cap America?) make it into the list while Henry Mancini and Alex North don't? Fucking moron.
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    gkgyver reacted to Sharkissimo in Miklos Rozsa and the phrygian scale   
    I don't think you can pin this passage down to a single scale. The main title is basically in Bb Major with modal (Mixolydian on a local level, and Aeolian on a broader level) inflections -- namely in the fanfare figures that use the flattened seventh against a major triad (whether or not it's I, IV or V), or the switch to Bbm (or Bm Aeolian) before the arrival at the dominant at :50.
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Trent B in The Amazing Spider-man 2 (2014 Film)   
    Glorified video game.
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Incanus in The Themes of Howard Shore's The Hobbit   
    I did some experimenting with the dwarf themes, and how they could interact or go together with the Dwarrowdelf theme. The mockup is not really refined, hope you look past that:
    http://www.file-upload.net/download-8570961/Dwarf-Themes.flac.html
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    gkgyver got a reaction from SafeUnderHill in The Hobbit Film Trilogy Thread   
    Dude, it's barely February.
    Sheeran was announced late November.
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Glóin the Dark in The Themes of Howard Shore's The Hobbit   
    I did some experimenting with the dwarf themes, and how they could interact or go together with the Dwarrowdelf theme. The mockup is not really refined, hope you look past that:
    http://www.file-upload.net/download-8570961/Dwarf-Themes.flac.html
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    gkgyver got a reaction from SafeUnderHill in The Themes of Howard Shore's The Hobbit   
    Two note thingy?
    Don't talk about a theme you don't even seem to know properly. Beorn's theme is a construct of several things that are heard sometimes together, sometimes separately. The whole thing is heard in the film when Gandalf tells the company about Beorn, and he roars towards the audience.
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Sharkissimo in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice   
    Batman Returns is a fantastic film, an even better superhero film, and beats 95% of modern superhero films to a bloody heap. And the same can be said, from every possible perspective, about the score. Ever since it was released, Batman Returns' main titles remain the best superhero main titles, to this day, only approximated by Elfman's own Spider-Man Main Titles.
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Dixon Hill in The Amazing Spider-man 2 (2014 Film)   
    That's it, I've heard enough!
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Dixon Hill in Howard Shore's The Desolation Of Smaug (Hobbit Part 2)   
    By the way, I said some time ago I'm setting the song of Beren and Luthien to music, using Shore's theme for Kili and Tauriel. Well, here is the preliminiary version:

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    gkgyver got a reaction from Dixon Hill in Howard Shore's The Desolation Of Smaug (Hobbit Part 2)   
    Change his name to Esteban Shoryanovic.
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Glóin the Dark in Who are your favorite conductors?   
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Glóin the Dark in The Themes of Howard Shore's The Hobbit   
    The last two pages are exhausting to follow with logic. Damn you, Howard!
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Dixon Hill in What 2014 films are you most interested in seeing?   
    I'd watch anything with Gillian Anderson. Even the Hunger Games.
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Glóin the Dark in Howard Shore's The Desolation Of Smaug (Hobbit Part 2)   
    Ayayay!
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Bilbo in Howard Shore's The Desolation Of Smaug (Hobbit Part 2)   
    I see alcohol is available in Canada, too
    And, btw, if you really can't spot Beorn's theme, not even once amongst the gazillion times it plays on the OST, and with Doug's booklet, I'm afraid you're not suitable for spotting themes at all. Does it really have to be Remote Control level stupidly obvious?
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Kühni in Howard Shore's The Desolation Of Smaug (Hobbit Part 2)   
    Add a low brass fart on the downbeat of every bar. To please the kids, you know. Countertenor is so old-fashioned.
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Jilal in King Mark Saw the Hobbit tonight   
    Is it just me or does this (unnecessary) thread seem to exist merely for ego-stroking?
    How nice that KM complained about ... nevermind.
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Dixon Hill in The Official "What Are You Doing For Christmas and New Year?" thread.   
    Like music, good home cooking is an art increasingly lost, at least in this part of the world. Some people treat it as if it's the most boring and tedious work, but to me it's complete relaxation.
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Sergeant in The Official "What Are You Doing For Christmas and New Year?" thread.   
    Like music, good home cooking is an art increasingly lost, at least in this part of the world. Some people treat it as if it's the most boring and tedious work, but to me it's complete relaxation.
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Bilbo in The Desolation of Smaug SPOILERS ALLOWED Discussion Thread   
    God forbid we give the characters a bit more depth by including a short scene taken from the appendices.
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Bilbo in Are there now more LotR/Tolkien fans in residence at JWFan than there are John Williams fans?   
    Some of the discussion confirms my suspicion that some people don't like Tolkien movie discussion here period, not because it distracts from JW discussion, which it can't anymore anyway.
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Dixon Hill in Are there now more LotR/Tolkien fans in residence at JWFan than there are John Williams fans?   
    Some of the discussion confirms my suspicion that some people don't like Tolkien movie discussion here period, not because it distracts from JW discussion, which it can't anymore anyway.
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    gkgyver got a reaction from Bilbo in Howard Shore's The Desolation Of Smaug (Hobbit Part 2)   
    And that it had Shore's recognisable and tender orchestration, the Hobbity instrumentation, a main theme from the film as the refrain, lyrics that aren't emo, and not to mention a wonderful intro before it.
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