ColonelVogel

I've picked my favorite tunes from the IJ original 3, and wonder what everyone else's favorite is.
 
Here are links to the themes:
 
Raiders March: 
 
The Map Room: Dawn:
 
The Miracle of the Ark:
 
 
Slave Children's Crusade:
 
 
ToD End Credits: 
 
 
Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra:
 
Alarm!:
 
 
The Keeper of the Grail:
 
 
Finale and End Credits:
 
 

I always thought that the arrangement of Anything Goes is JW's own homage/send-off to the great Conrad Salinger, the amazing orchestrator/arranger of the greatest MGM musicals (and also one of his early mentors).
 
As for my own little favorite moments, I have plenty from all Indy scores. I'll resort to a classic, spine-tingling one: (from 2:43 to the end)
 
 

Yes! And it gets you so pumped for the score when listening to it away from the film as well. But that whole arrangement is brilliant, especially during the dancing sequence. It's quite easy to dismiss that track as just Cole Porter's song and under-estimate Williams' involvement in it, but the fact is that Williams arranged the whole thing for orchestra, and it's so colourful, so playful, so upbeat yet so elegant that it's hard to imagine anybody could do a better job for that sequence. I love to look at the sheet music of that cue for inspiration, as it's brimming with so many cool ideas. 
 
As for my favourite Indy short segments...there are so, so many. The score I'm least familiar with is The Last Crusade; at least the middle part. But I'll keep it to the first film at least.
 
This one starts with a creepy jungle vibe. I love the aleatoric part of "The Idol Temple" (0:00 - 1:33) - that opening piano cluster sounds just like opening the door to some gigantic, ancient room. And I especially like that sting at 1:20, with the bizarre clarinet. Those notes fit so perfectly, for some reason.
 
I like the very opening notes in "Flight from Peru", as well as the whole Indy fanfare at 1:23. It feels like the whole sequence with the pizzicato strings is a build-up to that point, and it really works. And the trilling woodwind from 1:32 is like being in those rollercoasters which launch forward very fast at the beginning, and where your head is thrown back because of the force. It suits the whole take-off sequence perfectly. 
 
My next favourite moment comes during the masterpiece that is "The Map Room: Dawn". Well, it is hard to pick a best part of it because the whole thing is so integrated. But I really love the whole build-up with the choir from 2:09, till the powerful "tinkly" chord at 2:58. When I saw the Live to Projection concert of this score, and the orchestra landed on that chord, it felt as if all the air in the hall had turned into brilliant shards of glass. It is because at that point, Williams suddenly introduces a triangle, glockenspiel, xylophone, two harps, and piano on top of the music. It doesn't come across so well on the album, but when played live...it's really quite something!
 
Love the garbled sounds heard at the beginning of "The Well of the Souls" (0:00 - 0:53). Terrifying!
 
Now, "Uncovering the Ark"...the whole section between 3:11 and 4:24 is great. First we hear something which sounds like screaming in the background (violins trilling + choir). And then the Ark theme comes in at 3:26 in the horns, but it is transposed down from how we always heard it up till that point, which gives it a really menacing character, sort of like hearing an army approaching from a distance. This notion of transposing themes is nothing new, but the way Williams employs it here is very effective I think. We hear the Ark theme again at 4:50, against whirling strings, a sort of forshadowing of what's to come... 
 
"The Fist Fight/The Flying Wing" and "Desert Chase" are fantastic tracks of course, but they don't really have short moments. Although 3:55 - 4:02 of Desert Chase is definitely hair-raising against the shot of the soldier falling into a chasm...
 
I'm pretty confident that 0:38 - 1:03 of "Ride to the Nazi Hideout" is the best variation of the Raiders March in the whole franchise. Even better than anything in the concert version.
 
"The Miracle of the Ark" - this probably has the most famous soundtrack moment in the franchise! I'm talking about 3:31 of course. You don't really hear it in the film, but the horn rip at 3:44 is bone-chilling. I also like the ending, from 5:47. An open chord; indicative of a resolution, but not totally.

I have no idea. I don't really think about scores that way and on such a miniscule level. I prefer to play full tracks and full albums from start to finish. But any tracks featuring the 'religious sound' are up there, like "Only the Penitant Will Pass" and "The Map Room: Dawn".

Part III and IV will feature more cues from Last Crusade

Thank you so much for part 2! I especially love to hear the segment with the knight in The Last Crusade. I really wish there was a track that had more of it
Update on my french horn: Can now play part of the Jurassic Park theme, which is keeping me happy until i can play the part I mentioned above
 

Here is Part 2
  
 

 
Yes, YES!!! I love that bit (I did a post on why here), but I also like the lead-in into that march from the Raiders March, when the snare drum comes in. TLC's credits are gorgeous too, though. TLC is more "religioso" whereas TOD is more upbeat. If I could, I would pick all of the options...
 
 
Indeed! A bit like how Rey's theme and the Force theme play together in the TFA end credits.

This was a wonderful arrangement! I really enjoyed the part where you added Short Round's theme as the transition between 2 other themes.  This has made me more exited to get my French Horn this week.  I got bored of strings and want to try something new, and this made me sure of my decision. Thanks!

1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Last Crusade
3. Temple of Doom
4. TFA
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark
6. A New Hope
7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
8. E.T.
9. Return of the Jedi
10. Attack of the Clones
 
Side note: #4 and above are not even close to my top 3.

Do you mean 2:23 to 2:43? If you do, that is my favorite part of that track as well.  The reason I like TLC's end credits more is mainly due to 0:40 to 1:05.

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As you might remember a few years ago I released several French Horn Medleys of JW cues.
Back then my audio mixing and video editing skills were quite limited, and listening back to the whole thing I felt it would definitely benefit from a little "update" !
So I am now in the process of remixing and remastering the entire Tribute ( that is 5 parts, totalling 1 hour of music )
I will be doing a brand new video for each part, which will feature a brand new audio mix, all of the corresponding movie scenes and sheet music synchronized to the piece
 
Part 1
 
Part 2
 
Part 3
 
Part 4
 
Part 5  
 
     

They're all bloody brilliant tbh.
 
But I went with TOD End Credits. It's got my favourite version of The Slave Children's Crusade and my favourite version of the Love Theme (film version!).

Finale and End Credits from Crusade is just fantastic. It's got everything I want from Indy music.

I'm on my second listen of The Jedi Steps and End Credits... wow. This theme is just sublime. The way he plays with it in the credits is a sheer delight; I only wish he'd played with it more in the film score proper.
Anyone who thinks Williams has lost his touch has no clue. What a transcendent, emotive, intellectually and heartfelt written theme. Not one other composer in Hollywood could've written such a layered and complex piece for a modern film.

Where's the option "NO, but it's a brilliant theme"?

 

 
 
Pretty clearly correct, regardless....
 
 
This.
 
Win-Win for everyone.