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Did anyone know that we can find ALL the cue titles (almost?) Williams ever written (especially for films) here?

http://repertoire.bm...WILLIAMS+JOHN+T

but unfortunately they are in alphabetical order by cue tilte without naming the film!!!!!

So, if you see a cue title "At home", you must know from what film is it.

Well, other cue titles that are characteristic, you know already: e.g.The turbulent years (from Nixon)

If you put e.g. "end credits" in the search bar in the title, it will reveal 100s of cues named like this (from other composers who are affiliated with BMI too). Of course if you check to show you alternate names too you might find "end titles from Monsignor".

but the search isn't good either.

for example for "turbulent years" cue which you can see in the 1st page, you can't find it if you put it in the search bar, even if you write it in capitals.

same for other cues that I found individually browsing the pages e.g. Fast streets of Shangai, Stanley and iris main title, keyes arrives, keys enters house (from E.t.) etc..

(Maybe I should open a new thread about this?)

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I made a pdf of the entire cue list (4435 entries) for easier search:

The cues that don't have a BMI work #number are either BG cues (don't know what that stands for), or cues that were probably not written by Williams as I see. Don't know why they are mixed up.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/q3zlb1

I did a test with the Reivers cue list, and it found them all, except for "Ned tries it out."

Maybe it has been registered under another name..

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BG cues (don't know what that stands for)

I guess it means "background cues" (i.e. source music)

Yeah, that's a reasonable guess. In India, they call the score BGM (background music) as opposed to the songs, but I think 'source cue' is the more likely interpretation here.

Nice resource you found, btw, filmmusic. As you know, I have no interest in complete scores on CD and such, but should one ever do a film analysis of any of his films, they can be quite valuable.

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I made a pdf of the entire cue list (4435 entries) for easier search:

The cues that don't have a BMI work #number are either BG cues (don't know what that stands for), or cues that were probably not written by Williams as I see. Don't know why they are mixed up.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/q3zlb1

I did a test with the Reivers cue list, and it found them all, except for "Ned tries it out."

Maybe it has been registered under another name..

Hmmm... I think I've found Prisoner of Azkaban:

7051084 Harry Potter and the Prisoner [of Azkaban?]

7051113 Winter's Tale

7051681 Marge Points the Finger

7051682 Aunt Marge's Waltz

7051683 Parent's Portrait

7051684 Empty Playground

7051685 Knight Bus

7051686 Knight Bus Ride

7051687 Newspaper Headliner

7051688 Squeeze Bus Waltz

7051689 Second Collision

7051690 Leaky Cauldron

7051691 Book Attacks

7051692 Shawm

7051693 Discussing Black

7051694 Train to Hogwarts

7051695 Dementor Appears

7051696 Something Wicked Intro

7051697 Double Trouble

7051698 Dumbledore's Warning

7051699 Double Trouble March

7051700 Rainy Nights Dementors Birds

7051701 You Have the Grim

7051702 Double Trouble on the Hill

7051703 Ad Lib Hum

7051704 Befriending the Hippogriff

7051705 Riding the Hippogriff

7051706 Sir Cadogan Again

7051707 Kids Inspect Newspaper

7051708 Snape Dresses Up

7051709 Spider

7051710 Snake

7051711 Clown Out of the Cupboard

7051712 Revealing the Bridge

7051713 Remembering Mother Alternate

7051714 Portrait Gallery

7051715 Big Doors

7051716 Great Hall Ceiling

7051717 Page 394

7051718 Quidditch 2004

7051719 Quidditch Ending

7051720 Walk in the Woods Revised Star

7051721 Up the Stairs

7051722 Candy Box

7051723 Snow Fight

7051724 Source

7051725 Brief Snow Scene

7051726 Explore Your Past

7051727 Opening the Trunk

7051728 Harry and Voices

7051729 Dueling the Dementor

7051730 Solo Recorder

7051731 Buckbeak's Sentence

7051732 Reading the Map

7051733 Mention of Pettigrew

7051734 Crystal Ball Pt 1

7051735 Executioner

7051736 Walk to Buckbeak

7051737 Buckbeak Is Sentenced

7051738 Scabbers Runs

7051739 Whomping Willow

7051740 Entering the Shrieking Shack

7051741 Confrontation Scene

7051742 Sirius and Harry

7051743 Werewolf Scene

7051744 First Frozen Lake

7051745 Reviewing the Recent Past

7051746 Viewing the Recent Past

7051747 Saving Buckbeak

7051748 My Dad Conjured the Patronus

7051749 Buckbeak Saves the Day

7051750 Watching the Past

7051751 Rescue of Sirius

7051752 Sirius Final Scene

7051753 Turning Time Back

7051754 Whomping Willow Revisited

7051755 Lupin's Departure

7051756 Sir Cadogan

7051757 Potter Titles

7051758 Harry Potter End Credits Suite

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Oh, great!!!

funny, i had thought that it may go by BMI number, but i had found a Home alone cue, and another home alone by another composer had a near number, so I thought I doesn't go like this after all..

So, if we sort out the cue titles by BMI number, maybe we'll find something..

But I'm afraid I don't know how to do it.

How can anyone copy the list in an excel file and then sort out by raising number of the 3rd column?

edit: Oh, think I've found it!! :)

edit 2: Unfortunately, it's no use.

Harry Potter 3 happened to be in order like this (accoridng to BMI numbers), but other aren't.

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Cue list from Dracula (I don't know if it's complete, and if it's in the right order)

DRACULA MAIN TITLE 2341406

STORM 3627757

SOLO DRUM 3627758

TO THE CAVE 3627759

QUICK CHANGE 3627760

PARLOUR MUSIC 3627761

DRACULA APPEARS 3627762

CASTING A SPELL 3627763

GIVE ME YOUR LOYALTY 3627764

MINA S DEATH 3627765

JONATHAN PAYS A CALL 3627766

ON THE ROAD 3627767

MINA S FUNERAL 3627768

DINING ROOM 3627769

DISORDER IN THE ASYLUM 3627770

FIRST KISS 3627771

DRACULA MEETS VAN HELSING 3627772

GRAVE TRAMPLING 3627773

MINA IMPALED 3627774

VAN HELSING CONFRONTS DRACULA 3627775

VAN HELSING S SOLUTION 3627776

INTO THE CRYPT 3627777

LUCY ATTACKS 3627779

WAITING FOR DRACULA 3627780

CAPTURE OF LUCY 3627781

DEATH OF DRACULA 3627783

DRACULA END CREDITS 3627784

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This is really a great resource to get cue titles! But attention must be paid. Besides the fact that some scores are not well ordered, as noticed by filmmusic, it seems that we should search also for CD titles. For example, in the case of Azkaban I've found also the following:

7010322 Lumos (Hedwig's Theme)

7010328 Window to the Past

7010330 Secrets of the Castle

7010331 Portrait Gallery

7010332 Hagrid the Professor

7010333 Monster Books and Boggarts

7010335 Lupin's Transformation and Chasing Scabbers

7010336 Patronus Light

7010339 Forward to Time Past

7010340 Dementors Converge

7010342 Mischief Managed

I think "Lumos" and "Patronus Light" are not included in the list starting at 7051681, while maybe the others are included with other titles or as the union of some cues. In any case, that BMI site is a great source of information.

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I made a pdf of the entire cue list (4435 entries) for easier search:

The cues that don't have a BMI work #number are either BG cues (don't know what that stands for), or cues that were probably not written by Williams as I see. Don't know why they are mixed up.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/q3zlb1

I did a test with the Reivers cue list, and it found them all, except for "Ned tries it out."

Maybe it has been registered under another name..

Hmmm... I think I've found Prisoner of Azkaban:

7051084 Harry Potter and the Prisoner [of Azkaban?]

7051113 Winter's Tale

7051681 Marge Points the Finger

7051682 Aunt Marge's Waltz

7051683 Parent's Portrait

7051684 Empty Playground

7051685 Knight Bus

7051686 Knight Bus Ride

7051687 Newspaper Headliner

7051688 Squeeze Bus Waltz

7051689 Second Collision

7051690 Leaky Cauldron

7051691 Book Attacks

7051692 Shawm

7051693 Discussing Black

7051694 Train to Hogwarts

7051695 Dementor Appears

7051696 Something Wicked Intro

7051697 Double Trouble

7051698 Dumbledore's Warning

7051699 Double Trouble March

7051700 Rainy Nights Dementors Birds

7051701 You Have the Grim

7051702 Double Trouble on the Hill

7051703 Ad Lib Hum

7051704 Befriending the Hippogriff

7051705 Riding the Hippogriff

7051706 Sir Cadogan Again

7051707 Kids Inspect Newspaper

7051708 Snape Dresses Up

7051709 Spider

7051710 Snake

7051711 Clown Out of the Cupboard

7051712 Revealing the Bridge

7051713 Remembering Mother Alternate

7051714 Portrait Gallery

7051715 Big Doors

7051716 Great Hall Ceiling

7051717 Page 394

7051718 Quidditch 2004

7051719 Quidditch Ending

7051720 Walk in the Woods Revised Star

7051721 Up the Stairs

7051722 Candy Box

7051723 Snow Fight

7051724 Source

7051725 Brief Snow Scene

7051726 Explore Your Past

7051727 Opening the Trunk

7051728 Harry and Voices

7051729 Dueling the Dementor

7051730 Solo Recorder

7051731 Buckbeak's Sentence

7051732 Reading the Map

7051733 Mention of Pettigrew

7051734 Crystal Ball Pt 1

7051735 Executioner

7051736 Walk to Buckbeak

7051737 Buckbeak Is Sentenced

7051738 Scabbers Runs

7051739 Whomping Willow

7051740 Entering the Shrieking Shack

7051741 Confrontation Scene

7051742 Sirius and Harry

7051743 Werewolf Scene

7051744 First Frozen Lake

7051745 Reviewing the Recent Past

7051746 Viewing the Recent Past

7051747 Saving Buckbeak

7051748 My Dad Conjured the Patronus

7051749 Buckbeak Saves the Day

7051750 Watching the Past

7051751 Rescue of Sirius

7051752 Sirius Final Scene

7051753 Turning Time Back

7051754 Whomping Willow Revisited

7051755 Lupin's Departure

7051756 Sir Cadogan

7051757 Potter Titles

7051758 Harry Potter End Credits Suite

Knight Bus Ride should be "The Knight Bus (Concerto for Hubcaps)".

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This is really a great resource to get cue titles! But attention must be paid. Besides the fact that some scores are not well ordered, as noticed by filmmusic, it seems that we should search also for CD titles. For example, in the case of Azkaban I've found also the following:

Yes, for some scores there aren't even any cue titles - ONLY the cd titles unfortunately..

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This should work fine for James Horner with titles like ' A distant Memory of a faraway Time' or 'Never an absolution for those you so loved' but a pain in the ass for Jerry Goldsmith with billions of cue names like 'Do it', 'Deal', 'Grave' or ''Cemetary'.

Good database, though.

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This is really a great resource to get cue titles! But attention must be paid. Besides the fact that some scores are not well ordered, as noticed by filmmusic, it seems that we should search also for CD titles. For example, in the case of Azkaban I've found also the following:

Yes, for some scores there aren't even any cue titles - ONLY the cd titles unfortunately..

Star Wars, for example. I'm very disappointed about that...I've been wanting that cue list for quite some time.

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This is really a great resource to get cue titles! But attention must be paid. Besides the fact that some scores are not well ordered, as noticed by filmmusic, it seems that we should search also for CD titles. For example, in the case of Azkaban I've found also the following:

Yes, for some scores there aren't even any cue titles - ONLY the cd titles unfortunately..

Star Wars, for example. I'm very disappointed about that...I've been wanting that cue list for quite some time.

Yes, I had noticed that too - very annoying.

I have found some cues from Minority Report - this is for sure far from being a complete list. Curiously, some cues are listed twice in the database!

6250419, 6059871 Agatha springs forward

6250421 Anne Lively

6250426 Anderton's Great Escape

6250427, 6059879 Production Sax Player

6250429, 6059881 Greenhouse Scene

6250431 Dr. Eddie and Miss Van Eyck

6250433 Robotic Spyders

6250438, 6059889 Agatha sees all

6250444 Run (Everybody Runs)

6250448, 6059899 Confronting Lamar

6250450 New Beginning

6250451, 6059902 Minority Report End Credits

6366822 Minority Report

6366823 Can you see

6366825 Pre-Crime to the Rescue

6366826 Sean and Lara

6366827 Eye dentiscan

6366828 Sean's Theme

6366829 Leo Crow the confrontation

6366830 Sean by Agatha

6366832 Psychic Truth and Finale

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I don't know if this has been posted here, but i know that there's also a search engine on Warner Chappel's site, and that has been posted here before.

Here you can also find cue titles from John Williams:

http://repertoire.bm...Affiliation=BMI

hmmmm.. Don't understand.

This link is in the first post of this thread. it's what is this thread about. ;-)

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From going through the cue lists... it seems that generic titles are not usually saved (I wonder if they are not allowed to be copyrighted???). But it seems that almost every title is either a title involving the name of a character or a line of dialogue directly from the movie.

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