KK 3,307 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 There are good finales, and there are transcendental ones. You know, the kind that actually carries you off to the heavens, and leaves you with a high that lingers long after the echo of the final note has faded. The ones that transcend the literal and channels the otherworldly... Which finales leave you in that kind of bliss? publicist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post John 2,032 Posted April 25, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted April 25, 2019 From ecstasy, to melancholy, to hopefulness. KK, JoeinAR and Ii2 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Fellowship of the Ring AINEC KK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fargo 297 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 1812 Overture, of course. 15 minutes ago, KK said: Bro that's just a lot of noise... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,278 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 KK and Fargo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted April 25, 2019 Author Share Posted April 25, 2019 8 minutes ago, John said: From ecstasy, to melancholy, to hopefulness. That final fanfare is like the perfect bit of salt after a sugar rush. Delicious. 10 minutes ago, Jay said: Fellowship of the Ring AINEC Breaking? 9 minutes ago, Fargo said: Bro that's just a lot of noise... Try harder. Ii2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 I was meaning the finale cue as a finale to the entire score. Are you instead asking about like the final minutes of individual cues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Meet Joe Black! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fargo 297 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 12 minutes ago, KK said: Try harder. Bizarre response Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KK 3,307 Posted April 25, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 25, 2019 33 minutes ago, Jay said: I was meaning the finale cue as a finale to the entire score. Are you instead asking about like the final minutes of individual cues? Yea, less about entire set-pieces and more about actual great closers. Always loved the Wagnerian coda at the end of ROTK. After all the heavy emotionally intense material thrown at us, it was fitting to say farewell in such a collected way: Chen G., mrbellamy and Holko 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 14 minutes ago, Fargo said: Bizarre response KK is right though. There is a small but present demographic of musical snobs and posers on here that you don't want to be associated with. You may not like the piece, but to dismiss it as noise puts you in bad company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Besides it's quite tonal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fargo 297 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 9 minutes ago, Knox Harrington said: You may not like the piece, but to dismiss it as noise puts you in bad company. If it sounds like random, scattered sounds to me, then 'noise' seems a fair description. Not saying it's bad, just that it is an aimless section to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ii2 210 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 1 hour ago, John said: From ecstasy, to melancholy, to hopefulness. Seconded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 It's a reprise, but so what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted April 25, 2019 Author Share Posted April 25, 2019 8 hours ago, Fargo said: If it sounds like random, scattered sounds to me, then 'noise' seems a fair description. Not saying it's bad, just that it is an aimless section to me. Alright, I'll bite. Well if the whole work is mostly about Adams coming to terms with navigating harmony and "Romanticism" with his post-minimalist language, then this passage is about tonic resolution. The "noise" you hear, is obviously quite calculated. Adams' staple "pulse" that drives the whole movement is heightened to manic extremes in its finale, and the horns oscillate between the 5th and the 4th in waves that ebb in an out of each other, creating a whole microcosm grounded in the Eb tonality, brimming with Wagnerian grandiosity. It all brings those massive Californian coastal waves to mind (probably intentionally too), and the ancient majesty but frightening energy in which they rise and crash into each other. I find the whole thing deeply moving as a musical image. Just imagine it scoring something like this: Ultimately though, it boils down to a matter of preference. Certainly not asking you to like it, but you can do better on a forum than just dismissing it as "noise". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fargo 297 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 I'm (unsarcastically) glad you like it. I just don't. It's fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 The whole final section is breathtaking, but the last 30 seconds are this great RELEASE (19:34 - end) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayesian 1,363 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 My choices are decidedly old-school compared to most of the previous entries. Beethoven and Saint-Saëns are my two favorite classical composers, just so y'all know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Score 770 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 The ending of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and the ending of Wagner's Gotterdammerung are the first two that come to my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 The last 6 tracks of Powell’s Horton Hears A Who! More Powell: Not Mr. Big 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Loert 2,511 Posted April 25, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted April 25, 2019 Mahler 2 and 8! Out of all of Wagner's transcendental endings, my favourite is the ending to his last opera, Parsifal: R. Strauss was good at writing transcendental endings... as well as "transcendental" endings: karelm, SteveMc and KK 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 4 hours ago, John said: From ecstasy, to melancholy, to hopefulness. It almost a boring cliché to say it now, but it's the greatest finale of them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,684 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 And not strictly a score track, but the ending of this is so uplifting: (I love this film ) And this cue from Nocturnal Animals distracted me briefly from the ending scene (in a good way - I'd lost one of the plot threads by this point so was just listening to the score): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUlyssesian 2,478 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Starts at the point I linked with Gerald's theme and then builds into a climactic statement of the main theme and this being the finale, Steiner busts out the choir for a memorable and impactful ending. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,912 Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 3 hours ago, Loert said: Mahler 2 and 8! Out of all of Wagner's transcendental endings, my favourite is the ending to his last opera, Parsifal: R. Strauss was good at writing transcendental endings... as well as "transcendental" endings: Mic drop and lock this thread for nothing better than this post...well except I would also add Ralph Vaughan Williams' No. 1 and No. 9 plus Sibelius 7. But there is no point in providing a link, you have to hear the whole work to appreciate the transcendence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 7 hours ago, KK said: Well if the whole work is mostly about Adams coming to terms with navigating harmony and "Romanticism" with his post-minimalist language, then this passage is about tonic resolution. The "noise" you hear, is obviously quite calculated. Adams' staple "pulse" that drives the whole movement is heightened to manic extremes in its finale, and the horns oscillate between the 5th and the 4th in waves that ebb in an out of each other, creating a whole microcosm grounded in the Eb tonality, brimming with Wagnerian grandiosity. It all brings those massive Californian coastal waves (probably intentionally too), and the ancient majesty but frightening energy in which they rise and crash into each other. I find the whole thing deeply moving as a musical image. Don't touch the watch. KK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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