Sharkissimo

A turtleneck 65 million years in the knitting.

I keep getting redirected to this Tolkien subforum, but then my computer crashes. Stupid Windows 95.

I prefer DOS. Never understand why the HTTYD score was soooooooooo hyped around here. I mean it's good, and I like it, but it was treated like the greatest thing since sliced bread....

Any score that uses chord extensions in this day and age is ok by me! It's amazing how rare that is anymore.
It's a genuinely lovely score. Lyrical, coherent, and elegant.

Ok, here's mine:

This.

I'm seeing very unflattering comments on an Irish movie forum about the score, some by people who usually have a very good insight into films.
I posted my defence of the score but I hope this isn't representative of the general public's opinion of it How anyone can think the score is pedestrian and generic is just beyond me.
Is this a lose-lose situation? If a composer writes a highly memorable thematic orchestral score nowadays, it'll probably be criticised for being too "in your face". If the score is a little more subtle in its application of its themes like DOS, people complain it is generic and bland??

HOOK's problems are not bad special effects. Remaking the story while staying far away from the leaden all-star bullshit of Spielberg's version would be the only solution. HOOK is unsalvageable.

What about a John Williams jack-in-the-box (john-in-the-box)?

Can't agree about the theoretical stuff as therein lies one of the key sources of inexhaustible fascination and enjoyment from music, no matter its age... unless of course you don't go in for analysis of music, which I can sympathize if not identify with.
As for the rest, I'm sorry to say I agree. And even when there's an actual current score to discuss, the thread is dominated by disappointment and griping. Oh well. 2015 will be here soon and things will pick up.

I didn't think it was possible for the words "Balfe" and "excellent" to appear together in the same sentence! Now that I've seen it I'm still not sure that they should. :/

This is my go-to John Barry board.

Out!

A follow-up to: Richards, Mark, The Music of the Original Star Wars Trilogy: An Analytical Approach.

Richards, Mark, Hearing the Wood for the Trees: A Treatise on the Film Scores and Concert Works of John Williams

I wouldn't be surprised if Shore never works with PJ again after The Hobbit EEs are all done

It's not a shame, but Koray's correct.

God, no. This was one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life. It's the only movie for which I considered walking out of the theater before it was over.

Do you ever browse the internet to keep tabs on your fans?
I can barely switch on a computer, let alone Google! [laughs] Many younger composers and students often ask me... No look, I'll drop the act. This antediluvian image I've helped cultivate for myself is something of a lie, I guess [laughs]. The truth is that I have an unhealthy addiction to social media. Around about 7 years ago I registered on a forum dedicated to me - the 'John Williams Fan Network' or 'JWFan' for short. Sounds incredibly egocentric, I know, but I did it only after pressure from my wife. Since then I've become what's known as a 'top poster'; but no-one knows who I really am. Probably for the better!
That'll keep them guessing.
I hope so.

The key dissonance in that cue in the use of chiming major 7ths and minor 9ths.
Very similar to Szell's theme in MARATHON MAN, along with the B pedal point.

Also.