tony69 0 Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 I was listening to some stuff lately and have just recently discovered a William's musical trait. Though some of his pieces or themes may be considered derivative from another piece, this trait I believe is a unique trait of williams. It is his dominant preparations to back to a recap of the theme. In particular, listen to measures 24-28 of the Prayer for Peace. That development/preparation is uniquely Williams. I dont think you can name another composer who does it that way. Another piece with similar buildups include some harry potter stuff (like fawkes or the buildup to the main title sequence in harry potter 1). The other stuff that people have suggested like boom tsss or horn/cello doublings I've heard from other composers, but i think this is a truly unique trait. What do you fellows think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixie_twinkle 48 Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Who's William? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony69 0 Posted December 4, 2006 Author Share Posted December 4, 2006 Who's William? the conqueror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Composer_Fan 2 Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 That is an interesting point. I don't know whether or not a build up like that is unique to William though. But it is very much in his style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurgaFlippinMan 7 Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 erm, for those who don't count in 'measures', is it possible for you to state the track times instead? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony69 0 Posted December 10, 2006 Author Share Posted December 10, 2006 at 1:56 of prayer of peace to 2:13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocnathan 0 Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 I'd like to agree to that, only I have no idea what soundtrack "prayer for peace" is from... :-)Anyway, horn/cello is one of the most *frequent* doublings in orchestral mussic, not unique to Williams at all. Tuba/piccolo, for obvious reasons, is quite rare, but I dare venture that Stravinsky and Ravel did it somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 I'd like to agree to that, only I have no idea what soundtrack "prayer for peace" is from... :-)It's from Munich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh500 1,615 Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 It's been done before, and you can trust me on that. I have no idea who, but I subscribe to the credo that there's nothing new under the sun. But maybe Williams does it the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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