JJA 19 Posted October 12, 2018 Share Posted October 12, 2018 Has anyone here tried to do this? Nothing wrong with completeness of course, but it can be an interesting experiment to condense such complex scores to a shorter presentation. With the LOTR trilogy, we obviously have the OSTs for this, but they don't quite utilize the potential 80 minute (or near) disc space to their fullest, and we may have disagreements with some of the programming choices in them. The OSTs, the CRs, the rarities CD, and rips from the fanclub credits are all acceptable sources here. So, if you've ever done this, let's see tracklists and explanations of edits and what versions of tracks you used/combined and such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 I'm pretty ok with the OSTs for this purpose. Or the symphony. It's something I've always meant to do for The Hobbit though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,322 Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 I made a 60 minute suite of DOS music (in three pieces) that was pretty cool, but nothing else. I did think about making my own 75 minute highlight reel of each score someday, maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,675 Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 I'm on a sort of ongoing attempt to make a 'best of' for The Hobbit. My current playlist is just over an hour, but I know it's missing some good stuff, and when 'Ravenhill' came on in the car the other day, I wasn't impressed. Most of the material is from AUJ with very little from BOFA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,281 Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 Did anyone ever put together one disc versions of the hobbit scores? I enjoy them but sometimes nice to have a highlights selection! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondheim 1,157 Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 I sometimes make a playlist of the openings of each of the films or the finales. Or sometimes even major musical sequences, one from each. I do this with series all the time, to compare installments and isolate sections. If I do the openings, let's say, I choose everything up to the first major set-piece or tableau change in each score and then move to the next installment. My Dear Frodo Old Friends An Unexpected Party Blunt the Knives Axe or Sword Misty Mountains The Quest for Erebor Wilderland A Necromancer The House of Beorn Fire and Water Shores of the Long Lake Beyond Sorrow & Grief Guardians of the Three 1:02:03 If I did the finales, it would look like this. I include bonus tracks because I spin a disc until it finishes, especially with LOTR/Hobbit. I am personally comparing the ends of listening experiences as much as the scores themselves. Out of the Frying-Pan A Good Omen Song of the Lonely Mountain A Very Respectable Hobbit Erebor The Dwarf Lords The Edge of the Wild The Hunters Smaug My Armor Is Iron I See Fire Beyond the Forest Courage and Wisdom The Return Journey There and Back Again The Last Goodbye Ironfoot Dragon-sickness Thrain 1:31:32 I don't know if those are short enough or exactly what you are looking for, but this is how I typically do highlights Tom Guernsey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WampaRat 1,105 Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 I recently attempted to creat a “single disc” version of the hobbit trilogy scores that tries to hit all the major story beats from the book. It runs a little over 80 minutes. So it wouldn’t fit on one CD lol. But I didn’t want this to simply be a “best of” compilation. It flows well enough and is a decent playlist if anyone is interested: Old Friends Misty Mountains The Adventure Begins Roast Mutton The Hidden Valley Over Hill Riddles in the Dark Brass Buttons The Woodland Realm Barrels out of Bond The Forest River The Protector of Common Folk The Courage of Hobbits Fire and Water The Ruins of Dale Sons Durin IronFoot- Extended Version The Return Journey There and Back Again If you took out “Protector of Common Folk” and switched the extended version of IronFoot for the album version, It should shrink the time down enough. I’m just a sucker for the “Lake Town” theme:) the only story beat from the novel not really represented is the spiders. So you could add that track in if you’d like (Flies and Spiders). But I think the Woodland Realm track is a decent enough transition to Mirkwood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smaug The Iron 510 Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 1 hour ago, WampaRat said: the only story beat from the novel not really represented is the spiders Beorn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bofur01 245 Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 I sort of tried to do the same thing, mostly using tracks named after Chapter Titles from the book, or the closest match I thought fitted, and album suites. Again, it's nowhere near a "best of" but flows nicely (imho), though clocks in at 109 mins. An Unexpected Party Roast Mutton The Hidden Valley Over Hill Dreaming of Bag End Under Hill Riddles In the Dark Out of the Frying-Pan The House of Beorn Flies and Spiders Beyond the Forest Barrels Out of Bond Thrice Welcome On the Doorstep Inside Information Smaug Fire and Water The Gathering of the Clouds A Thief in the Night The Clouds Burst Ironfoot The Return Journey There and Back Again WampaRat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WampaRat 1,105 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 @Smaug The Iron make that two story beats;) The music for the Beorn section never really grabbed me. So I didn’t even think of considering it at the time. But I might revise that at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,322 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Shore wrote a good theme for Beorn and then PJ gave him nowhere to use it WampaRat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WampaRat 1,105 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Huh. I’ll have to give it another listen. Other than the Forest River (my favorite cue in the entire Hobbit Trilogy) and the Lake Town theme, DOS didn’t really grab me. Lots of brooding:/ But I’ve been going through the Doug Adams OneRing.net music commentaries for the Hobbit trilogy and its bringing out some cool observations I’d never made before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,322 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 There isn't anything to listen to, I don't know if a full version of the theme was even recorded. We only got to hear it as a mockup somewhere, was it the weird AR thing that came with the DOS OST maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Ware 526 Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Shore did sketch some thematic outlines for Beorn during the writing of film one. Unfortunately there isn’t a formal ‘theme suite’. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,645 Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 On 12/29/2020 at 11:10 AM, Jim Ware said: Shore did sketch some thematic outlines for Beorn during the writing of film one. Unfortunately there isn’t a formal ‘theme suite’. What was the intended timbre/instrumentation? I very much want to think the recurring motif during his scenes is his theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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