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Thanks everyone and especially Ludwig for your great explanation. It really helped me so much to look at this score in different perspective. I guess I was obsessed with scales too much. Would you be kind enough to let me share your post with others as well? I've also asked this question on v.i. control forum and I'm sure they'll be very grateful to see your posting. Please let me know and thank you so so much again. Best

Hi all, I know this isn't J.William's related question but I'll be so much grateful if someone can please help me out here. Recently I've been studying John Powell's score (How to Train Your Dragon.) I'm trying my best to analyze the score with my knowledge but it seems almost impossible. Question) Focus Hiccup (John Powell from How to Train your Dragon) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8MR5jpK_i8 (00:22~) *Attached score is in CONCERT Previous to the Bar 17, String & Brass are playing repeated ostinato derived from C Phrygian Dominant scale (C Db E F G Ab B(b) ) At the bar 17 (00:22) music is at the climax and horns and trumpets are playing the melody based on C triad and B triad (Timpani playing G bass note). However, If we look at the winds/strings, they are playing the notes that don't seem relevant to C triad nor B triad. By looking at the score, there are so many dissonance notes even on strong beats but if you listen to the music it just sounds amazing. I understand that fast wind/string runs tend to get away with dissonance thanks to their rapid movement. Here, however, the notes winds/strings play seem too far from the harmony horns are playing. Any clue please? Please forgive me for poor picture of the score. It's not allowing me to upload anything bigger than 400kb

Thanks again Marcus. I'm about to bookmark this page for my future reference.

Thanks so much for the help. You've really cleared those grays areas for me. Can't thank you enough. Should I call this polychord? Or is there any terminology to call this? Maybe I should just call this Holst-ism?

Hi gangs, This is a clip that I exported long time ago (not really sure what the name of the movie was. It was some old independent film.) Anyways it has some mysterious+dreamy sorta sound. I've been trying to transcribe this with no success so far. I know that the overall tonality starts off with Dm (D F A) then B triad sneaks in around 00:03- 00:04 secs creating this nice effect. To my ears, it seems that strings (tremolo) and winds are playing constant Dm notes (D F A, holding the notes) but maybe the celesta is playing B triad around 3-4 secs (along with flute's short F#B phrase) . Anyhow, I feel there's got to b e more to this than just those. I know this is one of those chromatic mediants that J.Williams love to use. This one however, is blent so well that it seems to resonate harmony instead of any dissonance that should have been created by Dm and B Major triads. I just can't analyze by my ears. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. DREAMYEffectM.mp3