Hayden Jonas

So, I've gone ahead and made a mockup of the cue "2m1" to be able to listen to it without the dialogue. Thought some of you might be interested in that. Of course, it might not be 100% accurate or sound as good as it could (the horns crescendo a little too hard, for example), but here we go nonetheless. 2m1 "Belloq" 2m1 Belloq.mp3

The thing is, I already bought one, but since I'm not living in America, the shipping takes forever. I thought maybe I could bypass the waiting, but thanks nonetheless.

Many thanks for all your replies. Anything about the Cairo source music? I'm not sure about this information - maybe it was just in a dream that I had - but I think I remember someone saying in a podcast that it consists of songs by a particular Egyptian band. I first thought I heard that on the Soundtrack Show, but I checked his episodes on Raiders again, and apparently, I seem to be mistaken. Oh, and another thing: Is there any place on the internet where I can find and read the full liner notes that come with the DCC Compact Classics release of the Raiders soundtrack? I would like to quote them into my own analysis.

Happy new year to everyone, I am currently working on the project of engraving the complete Raiders of the Lost Ark score for my own personal home library in a printed definitive-edition-sort-of-style. Included will be a proper front page, a content page, an in-depth theme analysis, an instrumentation list, a proper introduction text, performance notes, notes regarding alterations between film and album versions, notes regarding sync points between film and the music as well as a cue by cue analysis accompanying each cue. I also want to include a list of music that can be heard in the film but won't be included in note form because (I assume) it was not written by Williams, e. g. all of the source music. By looking at the cue numbers, you can conclude that they must include the diegetic music as well, otherwise, some of the numberings wouldn't make sense (assuming there aren't huge chunks of music composed for the film, we have never heard of, which I find unlikely). For example, "To Cairo" has the cue number 4m2 while the next official cue "Escape in the Alleys" has the number 4m4/5m1 which leads me to the conclusion that the "missing" 4m3 cue must be the market source music. Same thing with 5m2, which must be the source music that can be heard in the bar scene. Regarding those two cues comes my first question: Do we know if these two pieces of diegetic music were specifically composed for the film (maybe even by Williams)? If so, does a lead sheet exist for them out there (like for the source music in Last Crusade or Phantom Menace, for instance)? Or are those pieces of exisiting music (if so, do we know their origin?) that were just edited in there? A more drastic example left me bewildered at first: How can "En Bateau" be 10m4 when the last cue by Williams before this is numbered 9m1b? Well, the only logical conclusion is, that even the slightest bit of music counts towards the cue numbers, because then the number 10m4 makes sense: 10m1 is the crew of the Bantu Wind singing, 10m2 is Sallah's second Gilbert and Sullivan recital, and 10m3 must be Marion's whistling of Gilbert and Sullivan when she enters the cabin. Would you agree with this? Considering this, there is only one case in the film, where the numbering still doesn't make sense, and that is the cue 2m1 which would underscore the scene of Indy and Belloq talking after Indy has escaped the rolling boulder. Now, I remember that I saw a video on Youtube some time ago, which I can't find anymore (but it was also discussed briefly in this forum) where Williams (I think it was him?) conducted live to this very scene and there was music there (nothing special but still; I only remember some Mickey-Mousing for when Indy hands Belloq his gun). Does this video still exist somewhere? Maybe I can at least pull off a rough ear transcription. So in my mind, there are multiple scenarios here for this cue: A) 2m1 was written specifically for this live presentation to give the orchestra something to do and did not exist before. So maybe when composing the score in 1981, Williams conceived the number 2m1 as a sort of placeholder just in case the demand that this scene would need some music would arise later. B) Williams wrote the music in 1981 but it was decided that the scene should remain unscored before it could go over the sketch/handwritten full score state and was therefore never recorded. C) 2m1 was written and recorded in 1981 but the recording was never released for some reason. What do you think about these possibilities? Whichever it may be, as a perfectionist, it still kind of bothers me that I won't be able to include 2m1 in my score and it, therefore, won't be complete with all the music Williams composed for Raiders.

To those of you who also have a copy of the handwritten score of "The Last Crusade", I always wondered if its "normal" that the pages of the cues 10m3/11m1 "On the Tank" and 11m4/12m1 "Canyon of the Crescent Moon" are half blank? Or is it just an issue with my copy?