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You may be right. I never played the games but I messed with the sound files some time ago (trying to get those YIJ tracks), and that's the only thing I can go off of at this point.

What I'm saying is I don't think David Whitaker composed original music as much as he was in charge of arranging already existing music from different sources into the game--I could be vastly mistaken but I'm not sure if he has a Composer credit or just a sort of Sound Design credit. Edit: unless I am misunderstanding something completely, that is.

If you're talking about the old Lego games from back in time, I'm pretty sure they used a lot of Young Indiana Jones stuff and material from the films. Also might have some of Clint's stuff thrown in as well from Emperor's Tomb. Speaking of, I need to add Clint's Emperor's Tomb and Haab's Staff of Kings to my list of video game soundtracks that I think deserve an official release along with KOTOR II and The Force Unleashed games.

Deadline -- 90's Action Piece A new piece that's inspired by '90s Mark Mancina, Jerry Goldsmith, and Brad Fiedel.

I don't think I necessarily need anything other than 16 bit FLAC, but if someone wanted to change my mind I'm all for it. 16 bit already sounds fantastic clarity-wise to me.

You know, I don't usually like the more modern synthetic meets live orchestra stuff but Ludwig's music for The Mandalorian has made me change my mind about it. That stuff he composed for the Dark Troopers hits so good. As for Gordy scoring Obi, I don't know. I kinda like the idea of the TV show scores being more eclectic and less traditional. That's a NEW tradition that goes back to Kiner's Clone Wars scores. I'd say let him in on one of the big movies instead of on TV. But who knows, if he ever does score a series he may end up putting his own spin on it as opposed to the usual stuff he does.

I've been trying to figure out which tracks go with what missions. For some, they are fairly obvious but others I can't seem to match up. The track listing may be in chronological order by mission but I'm not entirely sure. I have a suspicion that the Bombing Run pieces tagged at the end of the album are for the multiplayer portion of the game.

Welcome to JWFan. If it's not Williams, it's ABSOLUTE GARBAGE. I kid, of course, but I am also taken aback by some of the weird elitist stuff I see people post regarding music on here. As for the comparisons, I think it's a fun discovery, but I'm not convinced that TROS was temped with Haab music. Oh, nad Haab definitely is a fine Star Wars composer.

Ah, that is great. This is exactly what I was looking for in a response. Modular is a fantastic word to describe the Sequel scores. Williams has several different tricks that he uses here and you broke it down exactly how I would have. Motivic, melodic (or thematic), and rhythmic. The Tension music you hear in some of the action scenes is very motivic. The Battle of Crait is reliant on a very rhythmic musical idea, as is Follow Me and the Falcon. He has so many different ways here of conposing action music that are a lot less uniform than his previous trilogy scores. And then you have thematixlc, melodic material like The Fathiers and Speeder Chase that rely on thematic material to carry the song.

Album is out on qobuz. Sounds pretty great, I think. Always great to own some new Star Wars music. Now how great would it be if we got some official old Griskey releases? KOTOR 2 and The Force Unleashed! C'mon, baby.

For instance, if his original trilogy action compositions were Thematic, and his prequel cues were Cacophonic, then what would his ST cues be? They are really all over the place for me. Some action cues are carried by a shredding string section (Battle of Crait, Kylo Ren Arrives At The Battle, The Supremacy) some are carried by their melodies more (Battle of the Resistance, The Speeder Chase, The Resistance, I Can Fly Anything). But I think the majority of tracks are very rhythmic. The melodic content is often focused on a rhythmic idea (Follow Me and The Falcon, The Battle of Crait, Chrome Dome, the beginning of On the Inside FYC) or otherwise based on shorter, punchier melodies. I'm not sure how I would describe this sound using one term--but I'm leaning toward Rhythmic. I'm working on a little project about William's evolving writing style, so I thought I'd get second opinions.

Not to mention straight up taking a whole bit from Holst's Venus in Imperial City. Like, he didn't even try to disguise it. Still, I LOVE Shadows of the Empire. I always call it my favorite Star Wars score.

Of course! But I wasn't sure how popular these albums are here, and I thought a better mix and master may not be much of a selling point if an individual already had a majority of what was being released here. EDIT: I DO think that it is important that video game soundtrack releases continue to get support so that people see that there is a market for it, so that also influences my decision here. Plus, I can't pass up a Star Wars score, even if it's not il Maestro's work.

Looks like all that was done here was adding a minute or so of additional material onto the track "Touring the Planets Montage 1", which here is called Across the Galaxy pt. 1 on top of the bonus track, which I guess is a diagetic piece? If it's worth a purchase to you to own an additional minute and a half of music then get it, otherwise stick with the Soundcloud release. Of course I want that short bit of new stuff, so I am getting it.

Casablanca. Everything you want in a film in one movie. Excellent soundtrack, fantastic characters, classic romance, intrigue, suspense, adventure. There is not another film like it, though I wish there was. Extremely quotable. Favorite bit is Renault claiming his winnings after shutting down the Cafe. That and the immigrants going to America and practicing their english. "What watch?"

This is going to be great! I'm loving that we are getting all this fantastic Star Wars music officially released. I love Gordy's material despite my criticisms that he copy pastes JW a little too much for my liking. I can't resist more Star Wars music.

I think Kevin deserves a bit more praise than he is given. I really admire the work he's done with both The Clone Wars and Rebels, especially his original themes. No one is the Maestro, but Kevin's work has been great.

Acquired BBC Symphony Orchestra recently (to add to my Nucleus library that I bought before the holiday season) and then I got surprised by the recent update. Muted brass was the only thing I thought was missing from this library, and now I get to have even that. I don't even think the Spitfire Symphonic series has muted brass unless I'm mistaken. Still, with the Henson boys having gone back and fixed a lot of the issues people seemed to have with this library I think it's become a contender in the virtual instrument library game, perhaps even against having dedicateds. Now I just need to fix up my computer to make it run better. Already have some RAM ordered to max out everything. I want to replace my HDD with an SSD, as well as add some extra SSDs to store more instruments onto. Why do my hobbies have to be so expensive?

Thanks, that was definitely an inspiration, especially in how I wrote some of the string parts. Mostly John Williams with a little bit of Dukas and Grieg.

Do any of my fellow composers know of a good source for learning about music production techniques specific to orchestration? I'm pretty confident in my ability to compose a piece of music (although criticism is always wanted), but when it comes to making it sound mixed and mastered I just fall so far from the mark and I really would like to get better. I know of certain techniqies, like what Alex Moukala calls "surgical EQ" and I've used that to okay effect in my pieces but I just don't think I have the ears to listen for unwanted frequencies, or even the ability to identify what sorts of boosts/cuts would be beneficial to a track in general. I don't know much about compression, EQ, or using limiters despite watching hours of videos about them. I just can't seem to wrap my brain around this stuff. Like, I totally get the idea of balancing your mix, but I don't necessarily understand how to achieve that or what that sounds like. I don't know if it's something I can get around on my very limited budget or if I just have to wait until I have thousand dollar headphone monitors or speakers and five-hundred dollar reverb/compressor/EQ plug-ins and such. Any help or directions to a source of help woudl be much appreciated. Also, for the sake of an example this is my latest piece of music: The Mischievous Elves

Hey, nothing beats the original. I'll settle for now until I get better.

X-Wing Chase Rescore I did a little rescore for one of my favorite scenes in the new season of The Mandalorian. Tried my best at some Williams pastiche but I think it came out a little closer to Giacchino, which is still okay. Come to think of it I'm not sure if this can be counted as a rescore since the original clip didn't have music to begin with.

Well there we go. I was confused about the origin of the term "Ludlow Motif". Thanks for the run down. I haven't listened much to the score for TLW on its own but I've heard such texturing in William's other orchestrations. The video pointed out even more that I never heard. I think that the ST's use of the musical idea kind of transcends mere action coloring as it seems to be used elsewhere. I can't describe it, but it's like it's halfway to being thematic.

Falstaft did me the honors below of a posting for this. Click his link below to hear what I was referring to. @FalstaftI loved discovering the Tension motif on a previous watch through before I learned of your catalogue, but I've grown to be fascinated by all these interconnected motifs, as they all do share an interesting relationship. But I've been meaning to ask you what you mean what the meaning is when you refer to it as the Ludlow Motif?

I was watching The Force Awakens tonight while I was bored at work, and at 36m 37s (watching on Disney+, mind) I was astounded to hear the Anthem of Evil theme appear in part in the score as we transition into the scene where Kylo Ren throws his first temper tantrum. I know this is purely coincidental, but it made my hairs stand on end to get such a clear preview of the coming theme--very reminiscent of the proto-Imperial March playing in A New Hope. I wish I could locate the scene in question on YouTube but unfortunately most videos cut out the transition. Just an interesting find for myself. Without the context of TROS's score this would just be another ho-hum transition.