scoreman36

Taken me far too long to realise what a masterpiece of suspense writing this score is - this analysis is just brilliant, thank you so much for posting!

Yes but he was al(ready) dead

Sorry for bumping a very old thread, but I’m currently a bit obsessed with this score. Do you have anymore of this sheet music you could share? This tantalising peek is driving me mad.

That Angela’s Ashes theme you’re referring to is pure Holst, as is a lot of Jane Eyre. It’s the use of the Aeolian mode, especially when you keep to a perfect cadence at the end of a phrase creating a minor dominant resolving to a minor tonic.

Just woken up from my JW dream so writing it down now for posterity. My wife’s ex was conducting an arena concert where a friend of mine was playing cello and I was watching the rehearsal. He pulled out the music to Seven Years in Tibet and JW came bounding down to the stage to make some suggestions. He was old but not in his 90s, he was really thin, and he had proper 80s stonewash jeans that made him look a bit ridiculous. The arena was full (even though it was a rehearsal) and everyone went crazy when he started releasing confetti bombs, leaping around the stage like a rock star. I was trying to take a photo with him and my friend in the same shot but he was just a blur, he wouldn’t stay still. I was both in awe and a bit disappointed that he was acting like such a dick. Spielberg was there too, goofing around in the audience. Then I woke up. Magic!

Prelude & Fugue is my all time favourite Williams concert piece, I love it! Owes a MASSIVE debt to Bernstein, but for someone in his early 30s it’s a remarkable piece of work.

I think the evolution of his style is clearer when you look at his concert works, simply because this is music he wanted to write at that particular time, rather than for whatever mood a film needed. Especially just the concertos follow a clear path through his ‘sound’, and it’s often at odds to what he was required to write as a film composer.

It does seem weird that you won’t just buy the bloody thing like the rest of us.

“Complete morons” who are actually protecting the livelihoods of American musicians, and making sure the next generation of musicians have an industry to look forward to in the future.

What about the Amazing Stories theme? How long ago were those guys telling stories around their campfire? Which is why I wrote “apart from Star Wars I guess”

This is brilliant! Ok, who’s going to do a master list of all JW scores ordered in the same way? I’m sure someone’s already collating the data… Is there anything set prior to The Patriot? Apart from Star Wars, I guess!

Having such fun reliving this anthology set. How good does Jedi sound especially?

Don’t ask me why I had him sign inside the booklet rather than on the box itself - the folly of youth! Really loving everyone’s recollection of this set - what wonderful memories!

Sure. Last day of work today before my Christmas break. I’ve got a nice bottle of port that I’m going to crack open tomorrow and then listen to this set in honour of 30yrs of JW collecting. I’ll post a pic at the same time.