Doug Adams

The Rogue One stories are indeed true. Same thing happened back on Shadows of the Empire, although in that case it was too late to change anything. Rogue One, on the other hand, had to be largely rewritten. 

That's not inaccurate. 

That's not inaccurate. 

That's not inaccurate. 

There was a lot of movie in those movies. 

You use the term with a different semantic value, much more for its purely abstract sense. In strict musical theory, atonality has a very specific definition: the absence of functional harmony as its primary structural element, so in this regard it's possible to define Williams' Violin Concerto as atonal. As a result it doesn't necessary means that the piece should sound necessarily dissonant or "alienating". Many works that are atonal in their nature (for example Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire) contains moments or passages in which a tonal centre is recognizable. Atonality went through different permutations and it's the consequence of chromaticism (Wagner) and polytonality (Stravinsky), but it was because of its difficulty to sustain large-scale musical developments that Schoenberg devised a new method to compose, i.e. the 12-tone technique, which could be defined as "post-tonal".

We start at the beginning, and make a few references to sync points throughout. But really, I don't think we line up anything all that tightly anyway. It should work fine as long as you're close.
 
Thanks for the kind comments, everyone. Part two this coming week. 
 
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I'm not planning to read the book out loud. (The book is too long, and my voice is too annoying!) Rather, I'm hoping to set the stage for why such a book would be interesting to people. Back on LOTR, I had time to run a blog to help with such things. These days, I have far less free time. Stupid adulthood! 
 
Regardless, I'll try to drop in plenty that people don't already know.

It's still better than this laughably awful screed:
 
https://www.splicetoday.com/music/the-australo-hungarian-empire-strikes-back
 
It's a masterpiece of how not to write about music. Or anything.

It's still better than this laughably awful screed:
 
https://www.splicetoday.com/music/the-australo-hungarian-empire-strikes-back
 
It's a masterpiece of how not to write about music. Or anything.

It's still better than this laughably awful screed:
 
https://www.splicetoday.com/music/the-australo-hungarian-empire-strikes-back
 
It's a masterpiece of how not to write about music. Or anything.

It's still better than this laughably awful screed:
 
https://www.splicetoday.com/music/the-australo-hungarian-empire-strikes-back
 
It's a masterpiece of how not to write about music. Or anything.

It's still better than this laughably awful screed:
 
https://www.splicetoday.com/music/the-australo-hungarian-empire-strikes-back
 
It's a masterpiece of how not to write about music. Or anything.

It's still better than this laughably awful screed:
 
https://www.splicetoday.com/music/the-australo-hungarian-empire-strikes-back
 
It's a masterpiece of how not to write about music. Or anything.

It's still better than this laughably awful screed:
 
https://www.splicetoday.com/music/the-australo-hungarian-empire-strikes-back
 
It's a masterpiece of how not to write about music. Or anything.

It's not that they don't know of the use of that term, but many aren't familiar with the Rings scores per se, so they have to guess at what's being called for. Fortunately, as performances circulate more and more, these scores are becoming part of the modern repertoire, and so percussionists are better prepared. 
 
Size is left to the performers. It's not specified. But I've never seen drums larger than 16 inches being used, I don't think. 

The passage you're referring to has four side drums* and timpani. No taiko.
 
*The term "side drum" can direct percussions toward a number of different instruments. It's a sort of fuzzy term that requires a knowledge of a composer's intentions. Shore's concept is of a deep drum -- a field drum -- with no snares. That last bit throws a lot of orchestras off. I've seen Howard ask percussionists to please the snares off, I've seen Ludwig Wicki ask it, and I've asked it. Howard and Ludwig tend to be nicer about it than I am. But I'm usually the most jet-lagged of the three of us.  

The passage you're referring to has four side drums* and timpani. No taiko.
 
*The term "side drum" can direct percussions toward a number of different instruments. It's a sort of fuzzy term that requires a knowledge of a composer's intentions. Shore's concept is of a deep drum -- a field drum -- with no snares. That last bit throws a lot of orchestras off. I've seen Howard ask percussionists to please the snares off, I've seen Ludwig Wicki ask it, and I've asked it. Howard and Ludwig tend to be nicer about it than I am. But I'm usually the most jet-lagged of the three of us.  

That's the last time I get my insider news from Harry Potter fan sites!

That's the last time I get my insider news from Harry Potter fan sites!

That's the last time I get my insider news from Harry Potter fan sites!

That's the last time I get my insider news from Harry Potter fan sites!

That's the last time I get my insider news from Harry Potter fan sites!

That's the last time I get my insider news from Harry Potter fan sites!

That's the last time I get my insider news from Harry Potter fan sites!