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Trailer cue?

I've heard (and very much enjoyed) the last one, but not the first two. I'll give them a listen. Yeah that had some great bits. This bit is my favorite: Oh, and Secret Life of Pets is also a terrific Desplat score I've heard. (Valerian also has some excellent moments.)

Thanks, @publicist. I've heard (and very much enjoyed) The Tree of Life (particularly "Circles") but not the other scores you mention. I'll give 'em a listen!

Just discovered Desplat's The Painted Veil yesterday. And I've had the opening of "The Water Wheel" playing on repeat ever since. Never seen the film, but Desplat's colors here are so evocative. Misty, dark, joyful, raw, beautiful -- this passage has everything. Does anyone have any other Desplat recommendations given that I loved this cue? (I've heard a few other Desplat scores obviously, but there's definitely still plenty I'm unfamiliar with)

I'm pretty sure there's not a thread for this so I decided to make one in honor of the film's premiere this morning at Cannes. I didn't learn until today that James Newton Howard wrote the score! (the news was apparently known since last month but I must have missed it) However, it is not yet clear how much of his score was used in the final film. One review of the film mentions "the orchestral blasts of Bach, Beethoven, Handel and Dvorak on the soundtrack," so clearly at least some parts were tracked with classical selections. Anyway, very excited for this film. Hopefully there's at least one theater near me that shows it. Initial reviews seem to generally be positive.

Who could forget this classic thread? RIP Doris Day.

Well, I do agree that the Captain America fanfare is Silvestri's best piece of the decade (and one of my favorites by any composer). But I also have loved some of his other stuff, like this from Ready Player One:

Just listened... enchanting!

@Stefancos, yeah. Didn't realize that's how long it was, though. No wonder it gets a little slow at times.

Don't think I've gotten the chance to post about this score yet - I've been really busy these last few weeks - but rest assured I've been listening. To some extent I agree with those who are disappointed in this score and think it could have been much better. As a whole, I don't think this is as good as, say, Ready Player One..... However, I think "Portals" will be one of the very best cues of 2019 (although I'm not sure if it can top "Forge" from two years ago): That cadence at 1:30-1:55 is so darn powerful (as it always has been since the first film, but more so than ever here). Absolutely incredible. And then the march version at 2:25 to the end is some swashbuckling awesomeness. My second-favorite cue has to be "Go Ahead." Although it doesn't soar quite as much as I might have liked (compared to, say, the Ready Player One finale cue) it still has a gorgeous segment near the end, capped off with the heraldic reprise of Captain America's theme: Classic Silvestri warmth, through and through. Cues like those two (plus the rip-roaring main title cue) make me really love this score, even if I don't think it's necessarily the most consistently good listening experience.

Borderline transcendental beauty here (to 9:45)...

@King Mark and @Datameister, the fanfare is on here! It sounds like it actually wasn't an alternate but was just edited out from the original video. -------- OK, just finished listening. Past midnight here but I had to stay up for this. Really great to hear it in proper quality. I remember feeling disappointed in the piece when we got the original video a few months ago, but the full version definitely more than redeems it.

Can't wait. This better have the fanfare intro.

I've been playing this moment on repeat over the last two days: Chewie's theme is mindbogglingly good.

OMG that opening fanfare...

Ancient Gregorian chant melody, I believe?

Wow, great work @Loert!! I'll admit the first couple minutes of "Into the Maw" have always bordered on headache-inducing for me, and that's no less true here. But your transcription of all portions is skillful, and the Chewie's theme part in "Reminiscence Therapy" is one I really enjoyed. Your arrangement there was beautiful.

I like the title, and liked the trailer overall. The beginning of the trailer was boring and overlong, and the ending laugh was unbearably cringeworthy, but the middle segment was so strong it largely makes up for those defects imho. I was going to mention how the Death Star shot is based on very early TFA ideas from 2013, but I see @Jay beat me to it! Very excited. I can't remember off the top of my head whether the search for OT artifacts was from George Lucas's original Ep. VII draft or was added when he, Abrams, and Michael Arndt were working on ideas in early 2013. Either way, very cool that this idea is coming back, and hopefully some others will as well -- the TFA concept art book has a ton of incredible early drawings that weren't used.

I really liked this trailer's music (at least after the opening boring music). Yes, @Faleel J.M., good catch: The Leia's theme arrangement here is essentially pulled straight from (what appears to have been) the trailer house alternate for the TFA Theatrical Trailer: I've always loved this arrangement, so great to hear it used prominently today. Love the Dies Irae quote at the end as well. I don't think this can beat Frederick Lloyd's stunning TLJ teaser cue (so good many here, including myself, thought it must be Williams), but it's still very well done.

Yeah, that's maybe the best moment in the score. Utterly sublime.

Not sure exactly what you mean by "manly," but this one seems to capture it:

Your Frozen one sounds terrific!! I was just coming here to post it when I saw you beat me to it. I hadn't heard this song before (I'm like the only person I know who has never seen the film haha, except for of course the annoyingly popular "Let It Go"). But it sounds really terrific, and great playing and arrangement.

The Force Awakens will always be a Christmas score to me.

Obviously the opening of My Friend the Brachiosaurus is great but for some reason I'm just now realizing how sublime the end is too: What a gorgeous melody - crazy it's only a one-off thing. I feel like it's just about good enough to be another composer's main theme! And then this little pizzicato riff is so fun and whimsical: