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One day...one day I will be sad and glad at the same time that this video isn't posted here. Glad because our quest will finally be complete, yet sad because it's hilarious every time its posted

I've always found it quite funny that Hammond points out the score as being temporary and will eventually be replaced, despite the fact that the music is obviously incredibly detailed and was clearly written, orchestrated and recorded (spared no expense) specifically for that animation, sync points and all. What kind of monster would replace that? Still, it fits with his character arc I guess. Hammond is a stand-in for the Hollywood producer tyrants. 

One day...one day I will be sad and glad at the same time that this video isn't posted here. Glad because our quest will finally be complete, yet sad because it's hilarious every time its posted

One day...one day I will be sad and glad at the same time that this video isn't posted here. Glad because our quest will finally be complete, yet sad because it's hilarious every time its posted

Yes, and it was him playing trombone, together with Spielberg playing clarinet and Malcolm McNab playing trumpet.

Yes!! I always wondered how on earth a proper presentation of the sacrificial scenes unreleased music can be put together for an album presentation without excluding anything. Only MM can do this.

Maybe if we all watch the whole 2-hour video, it will happen?

HOOK HOOK HOOK GIVE US THE HOOK HOOK HOOK GIVE US THE HOOK HOOK HOOK
 
Let's summon it every month, until it finally happens!

Sigh
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

What do you mean? I'm sure it is
 
 
Yea 

This one, I guess
 
 

This will be nice to see on Tuesday after a long weekend!

Get HYPED!!!!!
 
 
....for normal, decent releases, keep reasonable expectations

MV just posted in the FSM "questions" that he'll share information about their next titles on Tuesday, June 1st (I presume this means a Flyer posted to Facebook that day, but he doesn't specify)
 
https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=118900&forumID=1&archive=0

Source music does indeed mean music that is supposed to be coming from a source the characters in the film could hear, it's also known as diegetic music.
 
Source music could be an existing piece of music that wasn't created specifically for the film, it could be something made specifically for the film but the composer of the score had no involvement with it, or it could be something the score composer recorded, typically at the same recording sessions as the film score.
 
For example, let's look at Jurassic Park.  Early in the film when Nedry meets with Dodson to get the shaving cream can, playing in the background is "Las Gaviotas" by The Madacy Mariachi Band, an existing piece of music that was licensed to put in the film that JW had nothing to do with.  But it's source music that is meant to be literally playing in that location and they would hear it.  Later in the film, the "Mr. DNA" cartoon is scored with original music that the characters in the film hear (Hammond even mentions it, saying it will be replaced with different music when the park opens).  This is also source music, but this time it was composed by John Williams and recorded at the same recording session as all the score cues.
 
Sometimes, the line between source music and score can be blurred, typically in a way where something starts as clear source music but as it goes on becomes more embellished than what the characters would actually hear as the movie continues to show other things.
 
For example, let's look at E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.  The cue "The Kiss" begins as an interpolation of a piece of Victor Young's score to "The Quiet Man", a 1952 film that is on the TV in the scene, so it is meant to be music the characters can hear.  But as the cue goes on and Elliot kisses the girl, the cue morphs into original JW material using a theme from the ET score.  So it's really both a source cue and a score cue all in one!  Or for the most obvious example of this of all time, in "Close Encounters" the 5 note theme begins life as source music people around the world are hearing and repeating, and becomes the main theme of the film's score by the final cues.
 
 
In terms of JW and the source music he writes appearing on his albums... it depends!  Typically, the original soundtrack albums he assembles at the time of the film's release don't have any, but there are exceptions.  For example, his Star Wars OST had the Cantina Band cue, Close Encounters had "The Conversation", Return of the Jedi had "Lapti Nek", Empire of the Sun had "Suo Gan", etc etc.  But these are exceptions, most of his OST albums don't have any.
 
Years later when an expanded release of one of his old scores happens, the new album's producer will typically get access to everything recorded for the film, which includes source music along with the film cues.  Often when hearing the proposed new album JW might ask for some source music to be dropped; generally source music of a more dated styling gets axed, while source music or a more classical styling gets released.
 
For some examples:
 
Jaws - he approved the inclusion of the Joplin rag, waltzes, and marching band cues, but axed the source music from the opening beach scene Jaws 2 - he axed the beach rock source music that he composed Superman - Mike avoided this approval process by releasing all of it on the Superman II/III collection instead Dracula - None of the source music (classical music playing from an on-screen record player) was included Home Alone - all the christmas carols and other christmas-y source music was included, Harry's whistling of the wet bandit's theme was not Jurassic Park - the Mr DNA cue was included AI - the Mr Know It All music (arguably if source or not) was included, as was the Joseph Williams cue that was on the OST, but Joseph Williams' other two source cues and the instrumental backing of "I Only Have Eyes For You" JW recorded was not Harry Potter 1 - Hagrid's recorder cue was included, but with a "proper" ending and not the tail-off ending used in the film Harry Potter 3 - the courtyard recorded source cue was included, along with A Winter's Spell and all 3 Dufay Ensemble pieces, but the shawm source cue was not As you can see -- it all depends!

Hmm.
 
 
 
These are the big timpani cutaway bits I was thinking of. Wonder how Mike will do this, the film audio's a mess of edits, overlays, sweeteners, tracks edited together. I really hope it's not just the album track and the playoff in the main program and that's it.

The sacrifice music would all be considered source music, though it starts to intermingle with the score later on and even shows up as part of the score in the broken bridge cue. Source music is just any music that's part of the environment depicted in the film, i.e. music the characters can hear too. Doesn't matter whether it was written by the score composer or not. 

Those are definitely the bits for the closeups of the percussion set.

The sheet music leak has a "Sanskrit Sacrifice", a "Sacrifice Sweetener", three "Percussion Sweetener"s, "More Sacrifice" and "Sanskrit Continued"... but no "Sanskrit Sweetener".  Where'd you see that?  Got a direct link?
 
John Williams wrote every note of music you hear in the entire film (barring the Cole Porter adaptation, natch)

True, there's been no actual confirmation.  But the end credits don't credit anyone else for this music, which even by 1984 they were pretty good at doing.
 
For anyone who doesn't know what we're discussing, the music we're talking about plays from 1:00-2:48 in this video
 
 

It's these:
 

 
 

Sir this is an Applebees.

These days, almost every movie we watch is one that is included with one of the subscription streaming services we have in our house (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, Disney+).  If a movie we want to see is on Paramount+ or Apple TV+, we'll wait to do the occasional free month of those and catch up on those exclusives then.  (For example, we're currently waiting for season 2 of Ted Lasso to release, at which point we'll do a free month of Apple TV+ and watch Ted Lasso 1 & 2, Wolfwalkers, and maybe On The Rocks, Palmer, and/or Cherry)
 
Anything else we want to watch that we can't find on those, we'll occasionally rent it through Amazon Prime if its $6 or less.  Each of our Amazon accounts has free digital dollars piling up from choosing slower shipping options.  If a movie we want to see is still at the $20 VOD tier, we'll just wait for it to drop down to $6 or less tier, or even wait all the wait until it's free with one of the subscriptions we have. This is why I didn't get to see The Father or Minari before the Oscars, they were still $20 then.  But looks like they are both $6 now, so maybe we'll finally see them soon.
 
If we want to watch something that isn't available by any of the above means, we'll just wait until it is.
 
I've never bought a movie digitally and have no interest in ever doing so.  I've never even punched in those digital copy code #s into vudu or whatever it is that comes with some blu rays and stuff.  Maybe I should have, but I didn't ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
 
As far as physical media for movies goes, when I was a teenager, I used to buy VHS tapes, specifically when they started coming out with letterboxed editions of movies I liked, in the 90s.  I eventually sold/donated all those VHS tapes away.
 
In the late 90s into the late 2000s I bought an absolutely metric ton of DVDs.  I would do the Columbia House DVD club over and over again and just buy any movie that I had seen and liked, shopped for used DVD in Newbury comics, deal hunted on Amazon or other sites, etc.  Eventually, I realized I had no need for all these DVDs of movies I had seen one time, and sold most of them off.  I only ended up keeping the DVDs for anything John Williams scored, anything with unique special features (IE features or versions that didn't end up on the BD), or movies that simply aren't on Blu Ray at all (or at least, weren't as of the last time I went through my collection and checked).
 
In the late 200s I got my first Blu Ray player and started buying movies on BD instead of DVD.  At first it was just a continuation of my DVD days, hunting for deals, buying used BDs at Newbury Comics, etc.  It was shockingly easy to get lots of great movies on BD for $5!  Eventually though, the streaming services got better and better, and it just became so easy to sit down in the living room and pull up an HD version of a movie with a few remote clicks, and I started buying BDs less and less.  Additionally, I realized that more and more of my movie-watching time was spent seeing films I'd never seen before, and that I rarely re-watched movies I'd already seen.  Probably something like 95% is new-to-me movies and 5% is returning to a movie I already saw before.  So that was another reason I rarely buy BDs any more.  I haven't really begun the process of unloading anything from my BD collection (it never got as big as my old DVD collection), but I probably will soon.  I still happily buy films I absolutely love on BD, especially if they get a really nice set/packaging, but also even if its a barebones BD in normal packaging.  For my personal favorite films, I enjoy the process of putting the physical disc in and watching it in better picture quality than the streaming service will provide.  But for a film I've never seen before, or a film I have seen and do like that doesn't feature a huge visual draw, I don't mind watching the streaming version.
 
As far as 4K media goes, I "accidentally" started a collection when two Christmases ago, my Mother In Law got me the 4K UHD BD releases of Saving Private Ryan and Close Encounters.  Somehow, she had stumbled upon my 4K UHD wishlist I had made on Amazon instead of my main wishlist.  I hadn't actually decided if I wanted to buy a 4K UHD player and buy 4k UHD discs or not yet, but was putting the releases I knew I'd want to get if I did in a new wishlist and hadn't realized it was public.  I haven't had the heart to tell her she got me discs I can't play....
 
I don't think I have any interest in spending money on a standalone 4K UHD player, but I am contemplating getting a PS5 to play them, and if I did, would probably buy more of my absolutely favorite films on 4K UHD discs, especially if they have gotten good reviews for their picture quality, like the LOTRs, the upcoming IJ remasters, some other Spielberg films, etc.  The reason for this is, a few years back I got a PS4, and that ended up being such a good BD player (better than my standalone player in every way, in fact), I ended up unhooking my standalone player and only use the PS4 to watch BD discs.  So I might do the same with a PS5 when they come out with the first hardware revision, but that's years away, and I also haven't decided if I want to begin collecting video games digitally instead of physically for that generation of consoles (I'm still completely digital through my Switch and PS4 collections).  So we'll see what happens with all that.

In the meantime, we have the capability to stream 4K films through most of our subscription services, so there's less of a reason to upgrade my hardware and begin buying discs than there would be otherwise.  But of course, the picture quality will always be better on the disc than any streaming service stream, so I will likely end up buying new editions of my favorite films.

We'll see what happens

Here's the shot!