Will 2,215 Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 My thoughts:- Some here have called the melody that is repeated throughout the teaser "generic." Perhaps, but I still think it could plausibly be a Williams theme. However...- The orchestrations, at least for the most part, sound nothing like Williams. Modern trailer music house stuff has a certain style (some would call it "epic") and there are several spots where you can clearly hear this style. The maestro just does not write this way. So this is certainly not Williams music un-tampered with. - In summary, the teaser's music is definitely not composed and recorded by Williams without significant changes, but it could, I suppose, be composed by a trailer music house based off of a Williams theme. I personally think Williams had no involvement whatsoever in this teaser music -- I was hoping that we would get something similar to Hook or Harry Potter, but unfortunately Disney seems to have gone a different direction.- Several years ago we had an interesting situation where Williams had already recorded a lot of music for Tintin (back in February 2010) and yet the music heard in the Tintin teaser (released in May 2011) did not have any involvement from Williams. But when a new trailer was released in July 2011 it included a short snippet of Williams' score, and future trailers included even more. Spielberg's film's final trailers tend to feature Williams music (if the scoring sessions have already taken place) and hopefully the same will be true for The BFG. Until then, though -- if the BFG teaser did indeed not have Williams music -- it looks like we'll be waiting at least a few more months to hear the premiere of Williams' score. That moment can't come soon enough. Although we will have TFA to keep us occupied for a while .Quite a lengthy post to simply say "The music in this teaser could possibly by Williams, but is most likely not"!True, I did ramble a bit . Just wanted to get all my thoughts out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,318 Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 I think the theme could be a very early sketch from Williams (or a reasonable impersonation) but that's about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUlyssesian 2,478 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I think we all can agree that it is atleast a proper theme, developed throughout the 2 minute piece with multiple statements of the main phrases. Whoever's theme it is, its a good theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I think the theme could be a very early sketch from Williams (or a reasonable impersonation) but that's about it. Since when has John Williams given such pre-mature sketches of thematic ideas for others to work on? Considering how much he likes to dabble over the piano before he's satisfied with a tune, and how insecure he can be about his work in the early stages, I seriously doubt that he'd hand out sketches like that. It's not really his way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balahkay 627 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I thought Williams doesn't work on more than one score at a time? He may have been too busy with TFA when they put together this teaser. He may has started writing now that TFA is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus 390 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 This isn't a Williams theme. Melodically, harmonically and structurally, it's all very foreign to his style. The first half of the theme (first eight notes) is quite distinctive, though, albeit a bit bland and generic. The rest is unmemorable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Just saw this tweet... We're very excited to have scored the teaser for Steven Spielberg's adaptation of The BFG! Check it out https://t.co/BGVQ5OGgk4— Confidential Music (@confidentialmx) December 9, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 More like not-so-Confidential Music, ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,372 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I KNEW IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,245 Posted December 12, 2015 Author Share Posted December 12, 2015 I KNEW IT!You knew it was scored by Confidential Music? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I KNEW IT!You knew it was scored by Confidential Music?But he couldn't say because it was... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,245 Posted December 12, 2015 Author Share Posted December 12, 2015 Ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,372 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I knew John Williams had nothing to do with it and that it was likely done by a random trailer house So no random composer we've never heard of, or trailer house, is taking credit for the music on Twitter yet? I've never heard of this "Confidential Music" before just now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thx99 1,740 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I knew John Williams had nothing to do with it and that it was likely done by a random trailer houseSo no random composer we've never heard of, or trailer house, is taking credit for the music on Twitter yet?I've never heard of this "Confidential Music" before just nowThey list The Force Awakens trailer among their credits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacck 23 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Wait. The poll was serious? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,245 Posted December 12, 2015 Author Share Posted December 12, 2015 The poll was a response to this:http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=25153&p=1197511I even got emails saying they believed it was Williams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Who is "they"? We want names! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacck 23 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Oh. I voted sarcastically assuming that was the spirit of the thing. Too easy to readily perceive sarcasm in this place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,318 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 How wonderful to think there's now a trailer music company specifically emulating Maestro Williams. They undoubtedly have complete recording sessions of his Star Wars scores for all staff to listen to, but nobody cares.They're all too busy analysing the complexities of Zimmer's Inception BWWWOOOOO-AAAAMMMMMMM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TownerFan 4,983 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 The poll was a response to this: http://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=25153&p=1197511 I even got emails saying they believed it was Williams. I listen to Williams since more than 30 years. I learned to know his style and language inside out. I trust my ears a lot. When I watched this teaser I was sure since the first few seconds this wasn't anything composed by Williams. On the other side, I knew almost immediately that the G Minor motif appearing in the TFA TV spot a few weeks ago was something very likely written by JW. Glad I still trust my ears Jilal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie 45 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Does that mean they can't have used a stem of a theme Williams possibly gave to the producers for the purpose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus 390 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 Yes. That's what it means. But then again, there was nothing very williams-esque about the theme to begin with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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