bgcat57

I have seen the small parts of the original score to ROTLA and though I have seen many pages of Herbert Spencer work for JW in Spencer's handwritten orchestrated scores though none in the actual hand of Williams himself. (I too wondered where you had the opportunity to read it.) Regarding the issue of dissonance, this can range from beautiful to dissonant depending on the orchestration. There are a number of places in Stravinsky's Rite of Spring where literally all 12 notes in the diatonic scale scale are used at the same time, but based on both instrumentation and distribution, they do not sound as they would on a piano. Similarly Ravel, and Korngold amongst others, often may have so have dissonances that appear beautiful rather than ugly for this same reason. This particular queue is my favorite in ROTLA both for its rendering with the visuals in the film as well as its abiity to stand alone. I would love the opportunity to just see this and/or The Miracle from ROTLA. Spencer was magnificent in his ability to create a huge sound without an orchestra as large as it sounded. This is given that the orchestra wasn't small either.