Indeed! There is not a time in my life when I have not known his name. My father owned a movie theatre before I was even born, and I practically lived there. I fell in love with music in the theatre, and eventually became a professional musician myself because of it. At two years old, I watched Butch Cassidy over and over and sang along to Burt Bachrach's vocal score, and Williams became my favorite composer when I was six with The Poseidon Adventure. After that, I asked my dad to tell me whenever there was a film featuring his music. Imagine my thrill on opening night with his incredible score to The Towering Inferno, then Jaws, and then... Star Wars! In high school, I was arranging his music for my band, and shortly afterwards was performing his music (including Jurassic Park, as heard here) in various orchestras. John Williams is a NATIONAL TREASURE.
I think Jerry Goldsmith is up there aswell. But more for pushing the envelope. The lesser known JW scores IMHO are better than the mainstream. e.g. Accidental Tourist, Lost World, Seven Years in Tibet.
I can clearly see the Lydian mode listed in the brighter major statements of the Journey to the Island portion of this theme. No wonder that portion of the theme sounds bright, grand, and bold.
Total genius!!! Look at this palette of counterpoints, builds, and loose treatment of the bass line. Superhuman. Only Richard Strauss, Respighi, Mahler and Ravel have reached such a level! There can hardly be anyone after John Williams. Very hard…
Many of Williams' contemporary colleagues were on the same level - Goldsmith, Horner, etc. The orchestration in film scores around the time was particularly excellent... a trend that has unfortunately died out for the most part.
If *Gatchaman* had come out and John Williams composed, then he would be assisted by *John Fiddy/Jean-Claude Madonne* - the latter for composing, and the former for conducting. Now *that* would be beyond epic. The style of a bass guitarist fused with one of the GOAT modern composers would totally bang, and give *Imagi Studios* a great reputation a whole lot better than Disney or Pixar.
According to the header, we're listening to the Vienna Phil live concert (also on YT) conducted by the composer himself. It's not tied to the click track of the film and reflects how Williams himself hears it in his head, in that moment, with that orchestra, and the acoustics of that hall. Always fascinating to see how composers do their own music. Stravinsky was the same in the 3 different recordings he conducted of his opera The Rake's Progress. Tempi varied wildly from recording to recording, and from his metronome markings in the score. Just goes to show the score is not always the be all end all.
@@jrthiker9908 JW plays it much faster in real life. But I think this is due to a court case, can't remember if they were sued for ET or Jurassic park but that's the reason it's always played faster.
I can't believe you transcribed it 🙏..btw it's a bit difficult to understand this way, can you share the sheet music which isn't confusing with lists rather has notations for everything?
This is called a short score and helps visualize things like harmony, chord voicing, and register more easily than a full score. It also enables someone to play the work on the piano and analyze it themselves more quickly than a full score. There are full scores to this work easily available.
@Rohit B Well, JW, unfortunately, has a kind of "exclusivity deal" with Hal Leonard. That's the only place where you can get full scores for his work... and, one, they're only for a select few pieces, and, two, are quite overpriced. $55 for one cue from Hal Leonard; as opposed to $85 for an entire film score (but no Johnny 😠) from Omni, Chris Siddall, or Neumation.
Hi, first time here looking for your analysis, thank you for this great work you did. Is there any explanation about the lists you include in your analysis? at first seems a little confusing to see all these numbers with parentheses etc, I think lists are set of notes o scale degrees played by particular instruments depending on the harmony played is´n it?. Do you have an explanation or a way to clarify this system? Thank you.
@@markfox1545 The fact that you go out of your way to specifically correct one very minor grammatical error displays your level of ignorance quite ironically.
John Williams is the Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, etc. for our time. A Master Composer!
Indeed! There is not a time in my life when I have not known his name. My father owned a movie theatre before I was even born, and I practically lived there. I fell in love with music in the theatre, and eventually became a professional musician myself because of it. At two years old, I watched Butch Cassidy over and over and sang along to Burt Bachrach's vocal score, and Williams became my favorite composer when I was six with The Poseidon Adventure. After that, I asked my dad to tell me whenever there was a film featuring his music. Imagine my thrill on opening night with his incredible score to The Towering Inferno, then Jaws, and then... Star Wars! In high school, I was arranging his music for my band, and shortly afterwards was performing his music (including Jurassic Park, as heard here) in various orchestras. John Williams is a NATIONAL TREASURE.
I think Jerry Goldsmith is up there aswell. But more for pushing the envelope. The lesser known JW scores IMHO are better than the mainstream. e.g. Accidental Tourist, Lost World, Seven Years in Tibet.
Instrumentation (session recordings):
3 Flutes
3 Oboes
4 Clarinets
3 Bassoons
6 Horns
4 Trumpets
4 Trombones
2 Tubas (the second one plays at the end)
Timpani
Percussion
2 Harps
Piano
2 Synths
SATBarB Choir
Strings (Violins I/II, Violas, Cellos, Double Basses)
I can clearly see the Lydian mode listed in the brighter major statements of the Journey to the Island portion of this theme. No wonder that portion of the theme sounds bright, grand, and bold.
Total genius!!! Look at this palette of counterpoints, builds, and loose treatment of the bass line. Superhuman. Only Richard Strauss, Respighi, Mahler and Ravel have reached such a level! There can hardly be anyone after John Williams. Very hard…
Many of Williams' contemporary colleagues were on the same level - Goldsmith, Horner, etc. The orchestration in film scores around the time was particularly excellent... a trend that has unfortunately died out for the most part.
If *Gatchaman* had come out and John Williams composed, then he would be assisted by *John Fiddy/Jean-Claude Madonne* - the latter for composing, and the former for conducting. Now *that* would be beyond epic. The style of a bass guitarist fused with one of the GOAT modern composers would totally bang, and give *Imagi Studios* a great reputation a whole lot better than Disney or Pixar.
Make no mistake, *John Fiddy* and *Jean-Claude Madonne* are the same people.
really awesome, thank you!!!
Thank you for this analysis, much appreciated.
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Nathaniel, do you have original movie scores?
Nice job as always, but the JP theme is not quite the same without those ethereal voices, and I think it's played just a bit too fast here.
According to the header, we're listening to the Vienna Phil live concert (also on YT) conducted by the composer himself. It's not tied to the click track of the film and reflects how Williams himself hears it in his head, in that moment, with that orchestra, and the acoustics of that hall. Always fascinating to see how composers do their own music. Stravinsky was the same in the 3 different recordings he conducted of his opera The Rake's Progress. Tempi varied wildly from recording to recording, and from his metronome markings in the score. Just goes to show the score is not always the be all end all.
@@jrthiker9908 JW plays it much faster in real life. But I think this is due to a court case, can't remember if they were sued for ET or Jurassic park but that's the reason it's always played faster.
@@TB1M1 what???
I can't believe you transcribed it 🙏..btw it's a bit difficult to understand this way, can you share the sheet music which isn't confusing with lists rather has notations for everything?
This is called a short score and helps visualize things like harmony, chord voicing, and register more easily than a full score. It also enables someone to play the work on the piano and analyze it themselves more quickly than a full score. There are full scores to this work easily available.
@@ctfamily40 yes but the ones easily available aren't as precise. It would be nice if you redirect us to that material
@Rohit B Well, JW, unfortunately, has a kind of "exclusivity deal" with Hal Leonard. That's the only place where you can get full scores for his work... and, one, they're only for a select few pieces, and, two, are quite overpriced. $55 for one cue from Hal Leonard; as opposed to $85 for an entire film score (but no Johnny 😠) from Omni, Chris Siddall, or Neumation.
Hi, first time here looking for your analysis, thank you for this great work you did. Is there any explanation about the lists you include in your analysis? at first seems a little confusing to see all these numbers with parentheses etc, I think lists are set of notes o scale degrees played by particular instruments depending on the harmony played is´n it?. Do you have an explanation or a way to clarify this system? Thank you.
@@nopalitosms Yes. In the instrument lists the numbers in parentheses are chord tones.
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*you're. The contraction of you are. It's really not difficult but getting it incorrect proclaims the level of your ignorance very clearly.
@@markfox1545 The fact that you go out of your way to specifically correct one very minor grammatical error displays your level of ignorance quite ironically.
Terrible choreo a la primera de Brahms.